LIST OF POPULAR MUSIC GENRES

List of popular music genres

African

• African heavy metal

• African hip hop

• Afrobeat

• Apala

• Benga

• Bongo Flava

• Bikutsi

• Cape Jazz

• Chimurenga

• Coupé-Décalé

• Fuji music

• Genge

• Highlife

• Hiplife

• Igbo highlife

• Igbo rap

• Isicathamiya

• Jit

• Jùjú

• Kapuka aka Boomba

• Kadodi

• Kadongo Kamu

• Kizomba

• Kuduro

• Kwaito

• Kwela

• Makossa

• Maloya

• Marrabenta

• Mbalax

• Museve aka Sungura

• Mbaqanga

• Mbube

• Morna

• Palm-wine

• Rumba

• Raï

• Sakara

• Sega

• Seggae

• Semba

• Soukous aka Congo, Lingala or African rumba

• Taarab

• Zouglou Cote D'Ivoire

Asian

• Fann at-Tanbura

• Fijiri

• Khaliji

• Liwa

• Sawt

East Asian

• Anison

• Cantopop

• C-pop

• Enka

• Hong Kong English pop

• J-pop

• Kayōkyoku

• K-pop

• Mandopop

• Onkyokei

• Taiwanese pop

South and southeast Asian

• Baila

• Baul

• Bhangra

• Dangdut

• Filmi

• Indian pop

• Lavani

• Luk Thung

• Luk Krung

• Manila Sound

• V-pop

• Morlam

• Pinoy pop

• Pop sunda

• Thai pop

• Ragini

• keroncong

• Campursari / pop jawa

• Gamelan

Avant-garde

• Experimental music

• Noise

• Lo-fi

• Musique concrète

• Electroacoustic

Blues

• African blues

• Blues rock

• Blues shouter

• British blues

• Canadian blues

• Chicago blues

• Classic female blues

• Contemporary R&B

• Country blues

• Delta blues

• Detroit blues

• Electric blues

• Gospel blues

• Hill country blues

• Hokum blues

• Jazz blues

• Jump blues

• Kansas City blues

• Louisiana blues

• Memphis blues

• Piano blues

• Piedmont blues

• Punk blues

• Rhythm and blues

• Soul blues

• St. Louis blues

• Swamp blues

• Texas blues

• West Coast blues

Caribbean and Caribbean-influenced

• Baithak Gana

• Calypso

• Chutney

• Chutney soca

• Compas

• Punta

• Punta Rock

• Rasin

• Reggae

• Dancehall

• Dub

• Lovers rock

• Ragga

• Ragga jungle

• Reggae fusion

• Reggaeton

• Rocksteady

• Ska

• 2 Tone

• Ska punk

• Soca

• Twoubadou

• Zouk

Comedy

• Comedy music

• Comedy rock

• Novelty music

• Parody music

Country

• Alternative country

• Cowpunk

• Blues country

• Hokum

• Outlaw country

• Progressive country

• Zydeco

• Country rap

• Red Dirt

• Rockabilly

• Hellbilly music

• Psychobilly/Punkabilly

• Country rock

• Texas Country

• Americana

• Australian country music

• Bakersfield sound

• Bluegrass

• Progressive bluegrass

• Reactionary bluegrass

• Cajun

• Cajun fiddle tunes

• Christian country music

• Classic country

• Close harmony

• Dansband music

• Franco-country

• Gulf and western

• Honky Tonk

• Instrumental country

• Lubbock Sound

• Nashville sound

• Neotraditional Country

• Country pop

• Sertanejo

• Traditional Country music

• Truck-driving country

• Western swing

Easy listening

• Background music

• Beautiful music

• Elevator music

• Furniture music

• Lounge music

• Middle of the road

• New-age music

Electronic

• Ambient

• Ambient dub

• Ambient house

• Ambient techno

• Dark ambient

• Drone music

• Illbient

• Isolationism

• Lowercase

• Asian Underground

• Breakbeat

• Acid breaks

• Baltimore Club

• Big beat

• Breakbeat hardcore

• Broken beat

• Florida breaks

• Nu skool breaks

• 4-beat

• Chiptune

• Bitpop

• Game Boy music

• Nintendocore

• Video game music

• Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass

• Disco

• Cosmic disco

• Disco polo

• Europop

• Euro disco

• Space disco

• Italo disco

• Nu-disco

• Downtempo

• Acid jazz

• Balearic Beat

• Chill out

• Dub music

• Dubtronica

• Ethnic electronica

• Moombahton

• New-age music

• Nu jazz

• Trip hop

• Drum and bass

• Darkcore

• Darkstep

• Drumfunk

• Drumstep

• Hardstep

• Intelligent drum and bass

• Jump-Up

• Liquid funk

• Neurofunk

• Oldschool jungle

• Darkside jungle

• Ragga-jungle

• Raggacore

• Sambass

• Techstep

• Electro

• Crunk

• Electro backbeat

• Electro-grime

• Electropop

• Electroacoustic

• Acousmatic music

• Computer music

• Electroacoustic improvisation

• Field recording

• Live electronics

• Live coding

• Musique concrète

• Soundscape composition

• Tape music

• Electronica

• Berlin school

• Chillwave

• Electronic art music

• Electronic dance music

• Folktronica

• Freestyle music

• IDM

• Glitch

• Laptronica

• Skweee

• Sound art

• Synthcore

• Electronic rock

• Alternative dance

• Baggy

• Madchester

• Dance-punk

• Dance-rock

• Dark Wave

• Electroclash

• Electronicore

• Electropunk

• Ethereal Wave

• Indietronica

• New rave

• Space rock

• Synthpop

• Synthpunk

• Eurodance

• Bubblegum dance

• Italo dance

• Turbofolk

• Hardcore/Hard dance

• Bouncy house

• Bouncy techno

• Breakcore

• Darkcore

• Digital hardcore

• Doomcore

• Dubstyle

• Gabber

• Happy hardcore

• Hardstyle

• Jumpstyle

• Makina

• Speedcore

• Terrorcore

• UK hardcore

• Hi-NRG

• Eurobeat

• Hard NRG

• New Beat

• House

• Acid house

• Chicago house

• Deep house

• Diva house

• Dutch house

• Electro house

• French house

• Freestyle house

• Funky house

• Ghetto house

• Hardbag

• Hip house

• Italo house

• Latin house

• Minimal house/Microhouse

• Progressive House

• Rave music

• Swing house

• Tech house

• Tribal house

• UK Hard house

• US garage

• Vocal house

• Industrial

• Aggrotech

• Coldwave

• Cybergrind

• Dark electro

• Death industrial

• Electronic body music

• Futurepop

• Electro-Industrial

• Industrial metal

• Neue Deutsche Härte

• Industrial rock

• Noise

• Japanoise

• Power noise

• Power electronics

• Witch House/Drag

• Post-disco

• Boogie

• Dance-pop

• Progressive

• Progressive breaks

• Progressive drum & bass

• Progressive House/Trance

• Disco house

• Dream house

• Space house

• Progressive techno

• Techno

• Acid techno

• Detroit techno

• Free tekno

• Ghettotech

• Minimal

• Nortec

• Schranz / Hardtechno

• Tecno brega

• Techno-DNB

• Technopop

• Toytown Techno

• Trance

• Acid trance

• Classic trance

• Dream trance

• Goa trance / Psychedelic trance

• Dark psytrance

• Full on

• Psyprog

• Psybreaks

• Suomisaundi

• Hard trance

• Tech trance

• Uplifting trance

• Orchestral Uplifting

• Vocal trance

• UK garage

• 2-step

• Bassline

• Breakstep

• Dubstep

• Trap

• Funky

• Grime

• Speed garage

Folk

• Contemporary folk

• Celtic music

• Indie folk

• Neofolk

• Progressive folk

• Anti-folk

• Freak folk

• Filk music

• American folk revival

• British folk revival

• Industrial folk

• Techno-folk

• Psychedelic folk

• Sung poetry

• Cowboy/Western music

Hip hop

• Alternative hip hop

• Avant-garde hip hop

• Bongo Flava

• Chap hop

• Christian hip hop

• Conscious hip hop

• Country-rap

• Crunkcore

• Cumbia rap

• Drill

• East Coast hip hop

• Baltimore club

• Brick City club

• Hardcore hip hop

• Mafioso rap

• New Jersey hip hop

• Electro music

• Freestyle music

• Freestyle rap

• G-Funk

• Gangsta rap

• Ghetto house

• Ghettotech

• Golden age hip hop

• Grime

• Hardcore hip hop

• Hip hop soul

• Hip house

• Hiplife

• Hip pop

• Hyphy

• Igbo rap

• Industrial hip hop

• Instrumental hip hop

• Jazz rap

• Kwaito

• Lyrical hip hop

• Low Bap

• Midwest hip hop

• Chicago hip hop

• Ghetto house

• Detroit hip hop

• Ghettotech

• St. Louis hip hop

• Twin Cities hip hop

• Horrorcore

• Merenrap

• Motswako

• Nerdcore

• New jack swing

• New school hip hop

• Old school hip hop

• Political hip hop

• Ragga

• Reggaeton

• Rap opera

• Rap rock

• Rapcore

• Rap metal

• Reggae Español/Spanish Reggae

• Southern hip hop

• Atlanta hip hop

• Snap music

• Bounce music

• Crunk

• Houston hip hop

• Chopped and screwed

• Miami bass

• Songo-salsa

• Trap

• Trip hop (or Bristol sound)

• Turntablism

• Underground hip hop

• Urban Pasifika

• West Coast hip hop

• Chicano rap

• Gangsta rap

• G-funk

• Hyphy

• Jerkin'

Jazz

• Acid jazz

• Afro-Cuban jazz

• Asian American 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

• M-Base

• Mainstream jazz

• Modal jazz

• Neo-bop jazz

• Neo-swing

• Novelty ragtime

• Nu jazz

• Orchestral jazz

• Post-bop

• 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

• Bachata

• Banda

• Bolero

• Cumbia

• Huayno

• Chicha

• Criolla

• Flamenco

• Mambo

• Mariachi

• Merengue

• Méringue

• Norteña

• Ranchera

• Salsa

• Son

• Tejano

• Timba

Brazilian

• Axé

• Bossa Nova

• Brazilian rock

• Brega

• Choro

• Forró

• Frevo

• Funk Carioca

• Lambada

• Maracatu

• Música popular brasileira

• Música sertaneja

• Pagode

• Samba

• Samba rock

• Tecnobrega

• Tropicalia

• Zouk-Lambada

Pop

• Adult contemporary

• Arab pop

• Baroque pop

• Bubblegum pop

• Chalga

• Chanson

• Christian pop

• Classical crossover

• Country pop

• C-pop

• Mandopop

• Dance-pop

• Disco polo

• Electropop

• Europop

• Austropop

• Eurobeat

• French pop

• Italo dance

• Italo disco

• Laïkó

• Latin pop

• Nederpop

• Russian pop

• Folk pop

• Iranian pop

• J-pop

• Jangle pop

• K-pop

• Latin ballad

• Levenslied

• Louisiana swamp pop

• Mexican pop

• New Romanticism

• Pop rap

• pop rock

• Popera

• Psychedelic pop

• Schlager

• Soft rock

• Sophisti-pop

• Space age pop

• Sunshine pop

• Surf pop

• Synthpop

• Technopop

• Teen pop

• Traditional pop music

• Turkish pop

• Vispop

• Wonky pop

• Worldbeat

R&B and soul

• Contemporary R&B

• Funk

• Deep funk

• Go-go

• P-Funk

• Disco

• Post-disco

• Boogie

• New jack swing

• Rhythm and blues

• Soul

• Blue-eyed soul

• Hip hop soul

• Northern soul

• Neo soul

• Southern soul

Rock

• Alternative rock

• Britpop

• Post-Britpop

• Dream pop

• Grunge

• Post-grunge

• Indie pop

• Dunedin Sound

• Twee Pop

• Indie rock

• Industrial rock

• Noise pop

• Nu metal

• Post-punk revival

• Post-rock

• Post-metal

• Sadcore

• Shoegaze

• Slowcore

• Art rock

• Beat music

• Chinese rock

• Christian rock

• Electronicore

• Dark cabaret

• Experimental rock

• Electronic rock

• Folk rock

• Garage rock

• Glam rock

• Hard rock

• Heavy metal

• Alternative metal

• Nu metal

• Black metal

• Viking Metal

• Christian metal

• Death metal

• Melodic Death Metal

• Technical Death Metal

• Goregrind

• Doom metal

• Drone metal

• Folk metal

• Celtic metal

• Medieval metal

• Funk metal

• Glam metal

• Gothic metal

• Industrial metal

• Metalcore

• Deathcore

• Mathcore

• Power metal

• Progressive metal

• Djent

• Rap metal

• Sludge metal

• Speed metal

• Stoner rock

• Symphonic metal

• Thrash metal

• Crossover thrash

• Groove metal

• Jazz rock

• Math rock

• New wave

• World fusion

• Paisley Underground

• Desert rock

• Pop rock

• Power pop

• Progressive rock

• Canterbury scene

• Krautrock

• New prog

• Rock in Opposition

• Space rock

• Psychedelic rock

• Acid rock

• Freakbeat

• Neo-psychedelia

• Raga rock

• Punk rock

• Anarcho punk

• Crust punk

• D-beat

• Art punk

• Christian punk

• Deathrock

• Digital Hardcore

• Folk punk

• Celtic punk

• Cowpunk

• Gypsy punk

• Garage punk

• Grindcore

• Crustgrind

• Noisegrind

• Hardcore punk

• Post-hardcore

• Emo

• Screamo

• Thrashcore

• Crossover thrash

• Powerviolence

• Street punk

• Horror punk

• Pop punk

• Psychobilly

• Riot grrrl

• Ska punk

• Skate punk

• Post-punk

• Gothic rock

• No wave

• Noise rock

• Rap rock

• Rapcore

• Rock and roll

• Southern rock

• Sufi rock

• Surf rock

• Visual kei

• Nagoya kei

• Worldbeat