Thanks to the rapid advancements in music technology, the 20th century saw a dramatic development of musical styles, many of which influenced one after another. But what are the most popular ...

Splice and MIDiA Research’s Sounds of 2025 Report tracks how genres like pluggnb and Afro House are likely to make waves this ...

Many new styles of popular music have emerged since rock 'n' roll burst onto the scene in the 1950s. Rock 'n' roll had a huge cultural impact that united teenagers in the 1950s. In today's world ...

There were three main musical styles that influenced reggae. This style of Jamaican folk music was popular in the 1950s. Like calypso it is strophic in form and has light-hearted lyrics ...

Beyoncé winning the best country album Grammy with Cowboy Carter forces us to face our fixation with ‘genre’ – and rightly so ...

Funk music started to emerge in black American ... jazz and R’n’B – in a more rhythmic and dance-orientated way. Unlike many popular genres at the time, funk put more emphasis on the rhythm ...

But there was no change in terms of the most popular music genre. Despite a 2.3 percent decline in its overall share, R&B and Hip-Hop remained the most streamed genre last year, accounting for one ...

Apple has ordered "KPopped," a new K-pop competition series starring "Gangnam Style" singer Psy and three-time Grammy winner ...