Hip-Hop/R&B accounted for 30.7% of all streams across platforms, making it by far the most dominant genre in 2024. This isn’t ...

Think about the music pumping through your headphones right now. Where did it actually come from? Every beat, every guitar ...

Introduction. They never even knew. What is a popular music genre? ; Music/Identification ; Charting popularity -- Foreign music and the emergence of phonography. Sound recording and new modes of the ...

Outrage quickly followed after a country music radio station in Oklahoma “initially refused a listener’s request to play” Beyoncé’s new song “Texas Hold ‘Em.” Roger Harris, KYKC’s station manager, ...

Music and the frequencies we listen to tend to have a powerful impact on our emotions and mental state. And it’s not only research that proves this. You may have probably experienced the power of ...

In the music business, you’re only as hot as your next album, but once you get hot, your popularity can skyrocket. As one of the most popular music genres in the world, country music counts some of ...

We don’t often think about where words come from. We use them every day, never knowing who first uttered them. Take genres, for example. Who was the first person to coin “rock and roll” and who ...

Everybody loves the blues in some capacity. This genre of soulful music can be traced back to the 1860s in the Deep South. The origins of the blues started with African-American musicians who created ...