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 ...

Charli XCX’s ‘Brat’ and ‘Neverender’ by Justice and Tame Impala won the best album and best recording categories, ...

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 ...

Jazz emerged as a new style of music in the early twentieth century in the African American communities of New Orleans. Jazz has its origins in blues and ragtime. Jazz features lots of ...

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

For the first time, hip-hop surpassed rock as the most popular genre in the US last year, according to Nielsen's year-end report. Eight of the top ten most popular artists came from the hip-hop/R ...

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the Grammys.