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 ...

The music creation platform has also confirmed that it clocked “nearly 350 million” downloads of its sound samples across all ...

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

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 ...

Overall, in a sea of exciting video games, one popular gaming niche that stands out is music. Nowadays, there are many video games created around music themes such as Guns N’ Roses, Guitar Hero and ...

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 ...

Music from the past decade or so feels as if it hasn’t been made by passionate people and instead has become something ...

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 ...