List of popular music genres
Popular music is music with wide appeal[1][2][3] that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training.[1] It stands in contrast to both art music[4][5][6] like Western classical music or Indian classical music, and traditional or "folk" music.
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.[7]
This is a list of the commercially relevant modern popular music genres, with applicable styles classified using AllMusic[8] genre categorization.
Exclusions
Genres or styles that are not contemporary or commercially marketed in substantial numbers have been excluded from this list, as follows:
- Music written for the score of a play, musicals, or similar: Filmi, incidental music, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes
- Ballroom dance music: pasodoble, cha cha cha and others
- Religious music: Gregorian chant, spirituals, hymns and similar
- Occasional music: military music, marches, national anthems and related compositions
- Regional and national music with no significant commercial impact abroad, except when it is a version of an international genre, such as: traditional music, oral traditions, sea shanties, work songs, nursery rhymes, Arabesque and indigenous music. In North America and Western Europe, regional and national genres that are not from the Western world are sometimes classified as world music.
By region
African
- Afrobeat
- Afrobeats
- African hip hop
- African heavy metal
- Apala
- Benga
- Boomba
- Bongo Flava
- Bikutsi
- Cape Jazz
- Chimurenga
- Congolese rumba
- Coupé-Décalé
- Fuji
- Genge
- Highlife
- Hiplife
- Igbo highlife
- Igbo rap
- Isicathamiya
- Jit
- Jùjú
- Gqom
- Kadongo Kamu
- Kizomba
- Kuduro
- Kwaito
- Kwela
- Makossa
- Maloya
- Marabi
- Marrabenta
- Mbalax
- Mbaqanga
- Mbube
- Morna
- Ndombolo
- Palm-wine
- Raï
- Sega
- Shangaan electro
- Soukous
- Taarab
- Zamrock
- Zouglou
East Asian
Chinese:
- C-pop
- Chinese rock
- Chinese hip hop
- Chinese folk music
Hong Kong:
Taiwanese:
- Taiwanese pop
- Taiwanese rock
- Taiwanese hip hop
Japanese:
Korean:
- K-pop
- Korean rock
- Korean hip hop
- Korean folk music
- Trot
South Asian
Southeast Asian
Malaysian:
Indonesian:
Thai:
Filipino:
Lao:
Vietnamese:
Avant-garde
Blues
- African blues
- Blues rock
- Canadian blues
- Chicago blues
- Classic female blues
- Contemporary R&B
- Country blues
- Delta blues
- Detroit blues
- Electric blues
- Gospel blues
- Hill country blues
- Jump blues
- Kansas City blues
- Louisiana blues
- Memphis blues
- New Orleans blues
- Piedmont blues
- Punk blues
- Rhythm and blues
- Soul blues
- St. Louis blues
- Swamp blues
- Texas blues
- West Coast blues
Caribbean and Caribbean-influenced
Comedy
Country
- Alternative country
- Americana
- Australian country
- Bakersfield sound
- Bluegrass
- Cajun
- Christian country
- Classic country
- Close harmony
- Country blues
- Country pop
- Country rap
- Country rock
- Cowboy
- Dansband
- Hokum
- Honky tonk
- Música sertaneja
- Nashville sound
- Neotraditional country
- Outlaw country
- Progressive country
- Red Dirt
- Rockabilly
- Texas country
- Traditional country
- Truck-driving country
- Western swing
- Zydeco
Easy listening
Electronic
- Ambient
- Bass music
- Breakbeat
- Disco
- Downtempo
- Drum and bass
- Dub
- Electroacoustic music
- Electronic rock
- Electronica
- Ethnic electronica
- Asian underground
- African electronic dance music
- Dancehall pop
- Nortec
- Rabòday
- Rara tech
- Shamstep
- Trival
- Worldbeat
- Jungle
- Hardcore
- Hardstyle
- Hauntology
- Hip hop fusion genres
- Industrial \ post-industrial
- Intelligent dance music (IDM)
- Noise music
- Plunderphonics
- Techno
- Trance music
- UK garage
- Video game music
House
- Acid house
- Afro house
- Ambient house
- Balearic beat
- Bass house
- Brazilian bass
- Changa tuki
- Chicago hard house
- Chicago house
- Deep house
- Diva house
- Electro house
- Electro swing
- Euro house
- French house
- Funky house
- Future house
- Garage house
- Ghetto house
- Hip house
- Italo house
- Jazz house
- Latin house
- Microhouse
- Moombahton
- New Jersey sound
- Outsider house
- Progressive house
- Tech house
- Tribal house
- Tropical house
- UK hard house
Flamenco
- Toná
- Soleás
- Fandangos
- Tango
- Cantes de ida y vuelta
Folk
Hip hop
- Alternative hip hop
- Australian hip hop
- Bongo Flava
- Boom bap
- British hip hop
- Chap hop
- Chopper
- Christian hip hop
- Cloud rap
- Conscious hip hop
- Crunk
- Crunkcore
- Desi Hip Hop
- Drill
- Electro
- Emo hip hop
- Experimental hip hop
- G-funk
- Ghetto house
- Ghettotech
- Golden age hip hop
- Grime
- Hardcore hip hop
- Hip house
- Hiplife
- Hip pop
- Hyphy
- Industrial hip hop
- Instrumental hip hop
- Jazz rap
- Jersey club
- Kwaito
- Lofi
- Low Bap
- Lyrical hip hop
- Merenrap
- Motswako
- Mumble rap
- Nerdcore
- New jack swing
- New school hip hop
- Old school hip hop
- Political hip hop
- Ragga
- Reggaeton
- Snap
- Trap
- Urban Pasifika
- Emo rap
- K-rap
- J-rap
- Horrorcore
Jazz
- Acid jazz
- Afro-Cuban jazz
- Avant-garde jazz
- Bebop
- Boogie-woogie
- Bossa nova
- British dance band
- Cape jazz
- Chamber jazz
- Continental jazz
- Cool jazz
- Crossover jazz
- Dixieland
- Ethno jazz
- European free jazz
- Free funk
- Free improvisation
- Free jazz
- Gypsy jazz
- Hard bop
- Jazz blues
- Jazz-funk
- Jazz fusion
- Jazz rap
- Jazz rock
- Kansas City blues
- Kansas City jazz
- Latin jazz
- Livetronica
- Lofi
- M-Base
- Mainstream jazz
- Modal jazz
- Neo-bop jazz
- Neo-swing
- Novelty ragtime
- Nu jazz
- Orchestral jazz
- Post-bop
- Progressive jazz
- Psychedelic jazz
- Punk jazz
- Ragtime
- Shibuya-kei
- Ska jazz
- Smooth jazz
- Soul jazz
- Stride jazz
- Straight-ahead jazz
- Swing
- Third stream
- Trad jazz
- Vocal jazz
- West Coast jazz
Latin
Pop
- Adult contemporary
- Arabic pop
- Baroque pop
- Brill Building
- Britpop
- Bubblegum pop
- Canción
- Canzone
- Chalga
- Chanson
- Christian pop
- Classical crossover
- Country pop
- C-pop
- Dance-pop
- Disco polo
- Electropop
- Europop
- Fado
- Folk pop
- Iranian pop
- Indie pop
- J-pop
- Jangle pop
- K-pop
- Lofi
- Mexican pop
- New Romantic
- Neomelodic music
- Operatic pop
- Pop rock
- Soul-pop
- P-pop
- Progressive pop
- Psychedelic pop
- Rebetiko
- Schlager
- Sophisti-pop
- Space age pop
- Sunshine pop
- Surf
- Swamp pop
- Synthpop
- Teen pop
- Traditional pop
- Turkish pop
- Vispop
- Wonky pop
- Worldbeat
R&B and soul
Rock
- Alternative rock
- Beat
- Christian rock
- Dark cabaret
- Electronic rock
- Experimental rock
- Folk rock
- Garage rock
- Glam rock
- Hard rock
- Heavy metal (see below)
- Jazz rock
- New wave
- World fusion
- Paisley Underground
- Desert rock
- Pop rock
- Progressive rock
- Psychedelic rock
- Punk rock (see below)
- Rap rock
- Rock and roll
- Southern rock
- Stoner rock
- Sufi rock
- Surf rock
- Visual kei
- Worldbeat
- Wrock
Heavy metal
- Alternative metal
- Avant-garde metal
- Black metal
- Christian metal
- Death metal
- Doom metal
- Epic metal
- Folk metal
- Funk metal
- Glam metal
- Gothic metal
- Pirate metal
- Grindcore
- Nintendocore
- Industrial metal
- Kawaii metal
- Latin metal
- Metalcore
- Metalstep
- Neoclassical metal
- Neue Deutsche Härte
- Nu metal
- Post-metal
- Power metal
- Progressive metal
- Rap metal
- Speed metal
- Symphonic metal
- Thrash metal
See also
- Danger music – an experimental form of avant-garde music based on the concept that some pieces of music can or will harm either the listener or the performer
References
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