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 ...

Latin America’s recorded music revenues rose by 22.5% in 2024, with streaming accounting for 87.8% of revenues, a staggering ...

A genre is a category of artistic, musical or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form or content. Music genres such as pop, country, rock and folk are used to categorize songs ...

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 ...

Fans called the shots in 2025. Discover the top genres and what their choices mean for the future of music in 2026.

The role of a songwriter in country music is often that of an unsung one, so we are here to remind you of three of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lisa Kocay covers electronic dance music. Radical nights for better days ahead. The future of culture knows no genre. These ...

I admit it. I’m horrible at making playlists. I’ve never quite been able to capture “the vibe”, so instead, I resort to titling my playlists after the genre of the songs in them. “Rock” is a ten hour ...

Although these older genres may be lost on a young population unaware of the golden age of Highlife, their significance is on display at weekly social functions, events and parties recently christened ...

Benson Boone, Teddy Swims and Alex Warren have all dabbled in secular praise music. (Photo Illustration: Yahoo News, photo: Erika Goldring/WireImage via Getty Images, Christopher Polk/Penske Media via ...