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Please email music @ MusicGenresList.com if you find any genres missing or find any music genres that need correcting (or you can add to!)
Thank you
Grant
Genres of Music | The Most Definitive Music Genre List on the Web!
Genres of Music | The Most Definitive Music Genre List on the Web!
Please email music @ MusicGenresList.com if you find any genres missing or find any music genres that need correcting (or you can add to!)
Thank you
Grant
Ben
March 28, 2019Yacht rock
Charlie boss
April 3, 2019Mambo, vaporwave, mallsoft, outrun, synthwave, and future funk are all genres I didn’t see on here
jordi
April 4, 2019Where is TRAP??
Juan Cuartas
May 31, 2019Bambuco
Pasillo
Gato
Abozao
Guabina
Porro
Gaita colombiana
Gaita zuliana
Luke
June 22, 2019Mumble rap?
James Henry Smith
July 6, 2019I don’t see nightcore, jazzhop, jazzhouse, swinghop, nu dicso, nu jazz, medieval/fantasy electro, fantasy, dark fantasy, epic, heroic, video game, japanese music not linked to anime, french house, latin jazz, bossa nova, salsa, samba, swinghop, Native american, native american electro, native/peruvian/Andean, native/Andean/peruvian electro, Andean, Columbian/Ecuadorian, pasillo, bambuco, curralao, cumbia, vallenato, mapale, joropo, Swiss, Finnish, Russian, African, Asian, Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan, Siberian, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, African ones, desert blues, malian, tanzanian, south african, Bengali, Pakistani, Arab, Turkish, Kazakh, Armenian, Hungarian, rhapsody, ragtime, Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Greek, Ancient Roman, Arab, Arab chillout, Indian chillout, Russian chillout, Klezmer, Jewish, Gypsy, Balkan, Flamenco, Fandango, Folklorico, Mariachi, Mexican, Cuban, Afro-Cuban jazz, Indian (Asia), chillout, reggae, calypso, zouk, french jazz, tarantella, habanera/contradanza, waltz, polka, alpine, horn, alphorn, germanic, celtic, irish, scottish, welsh, viking, opera, country, electrocountry, electroblues, latin jazz funk, nightcore electroswing, nightcore electro, etc.
James Henry Smith
July 6, 2019also Chilean, Australian Aboriginal, Hawaiian, Native Hawaiian, ukelele, relax jazz, smooth jazz, motown jazz, modal jazz, funk jazz, Argentine, Filipino, Tango, Paso Doble, square dance
James Henry Smith
July 6, 2019and electrofinnish, electrofantasy, child, french child, television, television child, emotional, memory emotional, panamanian, traditional asian, modern traditional asian, electroasian, electro traditional asian, EDM, EDMtraditional, EDMtraditionalasian, electrofolk, electropagan, electrogypsy, electroirish, irish remix, remix, scottish, electrowelsh, electroenglish, electromedieval, electroarab, electroindian, rajashtani, electroindian, electronativeamerican, electroandean, electrogypsyswing, pagan, witch/wiccan electrofantasy, electroswinghop, etc.
James Henry Smith
July 6, 2019background music, ost, soundtrack is separate from opening and ending generally
James Henry Smith
July 6, 2019Also polynesian, electropolynesian, electrohawaiian, new zealand, samoan, papua new guinea, etc.
James Henry Smith
July 6, 2019also remixes, television/movie/show/videogame/etc. remixes, nightcore glitchhop, progressive house, glitchhop, etc. (the last 2 may be on the list already)
James Henry Smith
July 6, 2019also calypso, reggae, reggaeton, and electro calypso
James Henry Smith
July 6, 2019There’s also electro bossa nova (electrobossa) and electrosamba.
James Henry Smith
July 6, 2019There’s also electrolatino, nighthardcore, nightcore hop, nightcore jazzhop, nightcore jazz, electronightcore,electronightcorehop, electronightcore jazzhop, electronightcorejazz, tropical, tropical house, electrohawaiian, electrotropical, etc.
Jon Kukuk
July 18, 2019Here are 2 I didn’t see listed:
Instrumental Rock
Instrumental Pop
My apologies if they were listed and I missed them.
Alex
August 17, 2019Hi Grant
I note you have “Qawwali” listed under “Inspirational – Christian & Gospel”. As Qawwali is an aspect of Sufism it is actually Islamic, not Christian/Gospel. Could I suggest a new Genre of ‘Inspirational – Islamic” for Qawwali?
Lynn
August 17, 2019No Gospel?
Rosalie Mulhollen
August 19, 2019Classic Rock
Motown
noice
August 24, 2019Suggestion a New Music Genre in Hardcore:
Frenchcore
Ani
September 9, 2019Listen to electro swing!!!! It’s so fun to dance to (^_-)-☆
Rosalyn Michelle Winston
September 24, 2019I am interested to know what steps are required to create an entirely new genre.
admin
September 25, 2019Beyond us to create a new one just by adding to this list…
My thoughts are perhaps a scholarly approach and finding music maestros to validate.
Bottom line is anyone can create a new music genres, but that doesn’t mean it will be accepted by musicians!
Best of luck!
Megalo fan 1998
November 30, 2019what kind of genre list doesn’t have Megalo?
admin
December 3, 2019Where would you put it? Thanks! Grant
ludwig
August 28, 2020you guys didn’t put nintendocore and hardbass
ludwig
August 28, 2020I think extratone and dirty house are missing
Aditz
September 2, 2020Garage rock
Aditz
September 2, 2020Post-punk revival
Vlad Andrei
September 3, 2020Cloud rap is a subgenre of Hip Hop
Sean Spurr
September 5, 2020Rock in Opposition – kind of mixture of avant-garde classical and prog rock, also related to chamber music in cases of Univers zero and art zoyd which are particularly hard to classify elsewhere
khalafnasirs
September 15, 2020Hi maybe forget but there is also traditional music of Azerbaijan called “Muğam” or “Mugham (in english pronunciation)”
thank u
Esme
September 23, 2020Hi, I can’t find the genre “spiritual” in your list. You may want to add it.
George Franklin
November 25, 2022Agreed – new age spiritual music includes “Ritual Chants”
roger hazeldon
September 25, 2020Yacht Rock
roger hazeldon
September 25, 2020Soul Jazz
roger hazeldon
September 25, 2020Nu Wave Soul
roger hazeldon
September 25, 20202 Step Soul
roger hazeldon
September 25, 2020Under Latin/Brazilian … Batucada
roger hazeldon
September 25, 2020Piano House
roger hazeldon
September 25, 2020Boom Bap Hip Hop
roger hazeldon
September 25, 2020Don’t Diss Disco!!!
Disco (not a top level genre Sheldon Reynolds!)
It was the Mother of House Music.
Can i suggest “Disco not Disco” as genre.
Also “Disco Funk” & “Disco Boogie/Boogie”.
Brent Killey
October 11, 2020you forgot an important one under Reggae all the locals in hawaii listen to it and it’s pretty good, it called “Island Reggae” check it out
Luca
October 16, 2020Hello! I would like to contribute with four genres, one is called Future Bass which is a pretty popular EDM subgenre. The other three are a bit niche but they are dubstep variations like chillstep, these are:
-CumbiaStep: Combines latin cumbia with dubstep, obviously. Was created by argentine producers Omar Varela and Quicksmell
-PirateStep: Powerful pirate-y melodies, Omar Varela produced this too, but this genre caught on more than the previous one.
-MetalStep: The most popular of these 3, the main artist is Sullivan King
Yardley R
October 20, 2020I suggest Phonk is missing under Hip-Hop/Rap.
William
October 22, 2020Under the category of Rock music, Space Rock is a must (Bands include Pink Floyd, Gong, and Hawkwind). This sub-genre of rock music is similar to psychedelic or “trippy” songs.
Noah
October 24, 2020Genre: Deathdream
Here’s an entire article about it: https://vapor95.com/blogs/darknet/the-internets-darkest-music-genre
ibrahim ismail
October 26, 2020add Vaporwave please
Kyle
November 2, 2020Emo Rap
Pétur Söebech Quinn
November 4, 2020Hi there,
There is also a new music art form genre invented by me, Tone Landscape (my word) also called Tonescape (Blueshift word) – here is one example:
First: https://metapop.com/Peter-S-Quinn/tracks/in-the-moonlight/161874
And then in collaboration with Blueshift: https://metapop.com/blueshift/tracks/ps-in-the-moonlight-with-contributions-from-blueshift/162007
I hope you put it on your music genres list to protect it.
Yours truly,
Pétur Söebech Quinn
Sam Leibowitz
November 5, 2020I think Erotic Hip-Hop or simply Erotica would make a good addition to the list. Examples are many of CupcakKe’s songs, like Deepthroat, CPR, Juicy Coochie, etc. Also some music from early 2000s artists like Beyoncé and Britney Spears are deeply provocative.
Drew
November 11, 2020Melodic Death Metal
Funeral Doom Metal
Black Metal
Atmospheric Black Metal
N/A
November 12, 2020There’s one genre that I listen to that I’ve only seen the name of it used once on the internet, but the genre of music I’ve heard a few times by the same author. The genre is called Other Time, and it was tagged as the genre for the song Credits by Frums (youtube link is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOTAWLaDa58). The author of this song has made various songs like it, so I was wondering if you’d consider purring the genre on the site.
famfamfam
November 29, 2020Very cool stuff!!
I quickly scanned down to the Drum n Bass. Impressive. I have another for dnb: half step (or half-step. was sometimes called drum step. But half step is more used now). Basically with the snare, being used every alternative bar.
It was kind of a reaction to dub step arguably, hence the name half (or drum) step.
Daniel
December 1, 2020Black midi.
Matt
December 2, 2020Chillhop
Stephen LaCroix
December 3, 2020carol
Jerry Tao
December 4, 2020Rick-Roll, Rick Astley Never Gonna Give You Up
radoslaw alksnin
December 12, 2020psytrance : forest, hi tech,
Radmehr
January 4, 2021Hi! You can add persian traditional and persian pop
For example havaye gerye by homayoun shajarian is a persian traditional and yavar_e_hamishe momen by dariush is an example of persian pop
Give it a try!
Lewis Hoffman
January 5, 2021I believe you forgot Parlour Music as a music genre. Also, sea shantys and war marches/music/cadence
Cheryl
January 17, 2021Reggaeton, started by daddy yankee in Puerto Rico’s, its blowing up in USA
max r
January 21, 2021I’m not sure if you included Zouk music
Zouk music origonated in Guadeloupe
Atem
January 22, 2021Hi,
here to suggest some genres I thin are missing inthe list
Afrobeats
Afrobeat
Afro pop
moombahton
J.Cordova
February 7, 2021Blackened doom metal
Blackened death metal
Progressive doom
Prog death metal
Symphonic death metal
Symphonic black metal
Blackened heavy metal
Death N’ Roll
Black N’ Roll
Death doom
Alternative metal
Funk metal
Rap metal
War metal
Death thrash
Blackgaze
Gothic doom
Industrial black metal
Industrial death metal
Blackcore
Luis
February 7, 2021Vallenato (Spanish pronunciation: [baʝeˈnato]), along with cumbia, is a popular folk music genre of Colombia.
Lavender
February 26, 2021Hyperpop seems to be missing.
Diana
March 12, 2021Hi,
I’d suggest the Orchestral Jazz genre in the Jazz section.
meda
March 16, 2021rap
charles wood
March 31, 2021Cyberpunk, should go under Industrial
suburbanguy
April 1, 2021Add “UK Drill”…
James Bone
April 2, 2021Rag
James Bone
April 2, 2021Ragtime
Filip Drogrishki
April 20, 2021Balkan rock. It kind of sounds like Balkan pop and folk mixed. Link to Balkan rock:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaKb2vcSeCE
Sven
April 20, 2021Trap (Chill, Dark, Acid, Future, Moombahton, Hybrid)
Sergej Nogin
April 24, 2021In Metal:
Blackgaze
Atmospheric Black Metal
Stoner Doom
In Rock:
Space Rock
Desert Rock
In rap:
Russian Grime
Sergej Nogin
April 24, 2021Christian Metal
Pirate Metal
Post Grunge
Gypsy Punk
Gypsy Jazz
Steinhart
April 25, 2021Hitech
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxzkjSpegb_-l4Zhi8j1Grg
With friendly regards (scheiß darkpsy)
Cyrus Leighton
April 27, 2021hay I was uh looking in the metal section and realized you missed 1 I know it’s hard to get them all especially since there are so many but it’s called screamo I know it’s sounds weird but it’s real I promise you
Cyrus Leighton
April 28, 2021future metal nother metal genre
Lee
May 3, 2021Perhaps ‘Future Bass’ and ‘Future Pop’?
Tina C Winters
May 27, 2021none
Breno Stutz
June 7, 2021manguebeat. This is a brazilian genre pioneered by Chico Science and Nação Zumbi. It fuses rock and hip hop with Pernambuco’s traditional genres, such as Maracatu.
Justin quinn
June 13, 2021Anime genre, nightcore
Coyote
July 23, 2021Indigenous Native American Music
Ronald
July 25, 2021Hello. A few subgenres of Speedcore. Splittercore, Terrorcore, Extratone.
Philipp Beneder
August 5, 2021I was just looking at the Anime genre and had to think about Otacore as a sub-genre.
It is a more heavy version of usual anime songs.
Examples:
Utsu-P – Galapagos Syndrome
Neru – Lost One’s Weeping
https://everynoise.com/engenremap-otacore.html
RAT
August 17, 2021phonk
Emad
August 22, 2021Dream Rock?
emad
August 25, 2021“Dream Rock”
The term dream rock is associated with the musical style that mixes the atmospheric layers used by dream pop bands, the textures and moods of shoegaze and the powerful, distorted sound of early alternative rock. As a genre, it was first used by the.
Sandor A Escobedo
August 27, 2021There’s some microgenres such as pornogrind and fandom genres like wizard rock, brony metal, etc. I know these are very miniscule, but they could be added as they are usually considered music genres.
Ekaterina Lapshina
September 4, 2021Hello, I didn’t find Dembow on the List, it is the style similar to reggaeton.. thank you for this site, great job!!!
Bella
September 7, 2021Under Rock, a subgenre of Garage Rock can be made
Laureline
September 17, 2021The missing genres are:
Future Bass (Example: Subtact – Tunnel Vision)
Kawaii Future Bass (Example: KUWAGO – Dream)
Rockstep (Example: Sekai – Running)
Metalstep (Example: Celldweller – Own Little world (Drop Remix))
Synthwave (Example: Mental Minority – Dystopia Now)
duc anh
September 24, 2021V-Pop (Vietnamese Pop) is missing
Irrelevant
September 24, 2021Hardbass
Jack
September 26, 2021Tropical House
Euro House
Disco-Tech
Progressive Techno
Piano House
Groove N Beat
Can send Songs examples:)
Anonymous
September 28, 2021Add a separate category for bass music (mainly a subset of EDM music)
In the bass music category add future bass, future riddim, brostep and riddim and brostep/riddim
Ronan
October 4, 2021Elevator music can actually be categorized as Muzak, which is a genre of music dedicated for the background of everyday life, such as hold music on a telephone, music in a grocery store, and music in an elevator.
Carlos Pujols
October 9, 2021Afrohouse
Korean trot
aaaaaaaaaa
October 14, 2021glitchcore
Marco Borg
November 3, 2021Metal – Blackened Death Metal
Techno – “Deep techno”
Techno – “Peak time/driving techno” –
Kirstie Pham
November 5, 2021Dark Cabaret is still around but dying out. It was fairly short lived put peaked in the late 90s-00s. I think there’s enough artists underneath the sub genre that it deserves to allow it a place on the list
youssef
November 6, 2021This is how you should lay out Jamaican/Caribbean genres
Dancehall (Genre)
Ragga (Sub Genre of dancehall)
Bashment (Sub Genre of dancehall)
Soca (Sub Genre of dancehall)
Reggae (Sub Genre of dancehall)
– One Drop (Sub-genre of reggae)
– General (Sub-genre of reggae)
UK Drill (sub-genre of Grime)
Hyper Pop (sub-genre of electronic)
Buddy Cat
November 13, 2021Nucore
Buddy Cat
November 13, 2021Nucore a combination of nu metal and metalcore
K2006L
November 14, 2021Please add it to the list:
Disco polo – is a genre of popular dance music. Created in Poland in the late 1980s, it was initially known as “sidewalk music” (Polish: muzyka chodnikowa) or “backyard music” (Polish: muzyka podwórkowa). The Polish PWN dictionary defines the genre as a Polish variant of disco music.
and this:
Music of Poland
because this country has a lot of its genres and styles of music known all over the world
Polish Folk Music
Olly
December 8, 2021Ska-core
Speed-ska
and Yodel!
Spencer
December 10, 2021Spotify said my top genre was Future Bass (EDM) and that seems to be missing here.
Thanks,
David Woolley
December 11, 2021Riddim: A form of rhythmic Dubstep that is meant to imitate the original sound of dubstep
Melodic Riddim: Riddim but colourful in it’s new melodic elements using various techniques to add harmonics to Riddim basses
Briddim: Riddim with Brostep elements
Future Riddim: Riddim but has melodies, this is different to Melodic Riddim because it doesn’t necessarily add harmonics to basses but plays a melody anyways
Squeaky
December 23, 2021I read all of your genre’s of all your types of metal, but you never mentioned Black Death Metal.
I love it !
Chris
December 28, 2021Saw you were missing: Alt. Metal, Southern Metal, Blackened Death Metal, Deathrash, Rap Metal, Jazz Fusion Metal, Funk Metal.
E. Nostrils
January 4, 2022I’m not sure I agree with the “alternative” distinction at all, that was sort of just a buzzword media gave to stuff in the 90’s. Punk itself is an analogue of rock n roll. It was born out of many different genres depending on what part of the world you’re looking at, but it certainly rightly deserves to reside under “rock” and then have its own section with its myriad offshoots/subgenres listed.
Certain feakbeat/psychedlic/garage music of the 60’s is widely considered to be some of the earliest precursors to punk. You also had glam rock like The Sweet and then later The New York Dolls that were instrumental in the development of punk. There’s plenty more to talk about here but you get the idea.
I’d vote to remove the “alternative” section in its entirety and start fresh. The dichotomy of genres should keep broader distinctions at the top and then progress from there. This whole project seems rather disjointed and in many sections downright misguided. It’s a cool idea but should employ better research and a more focused and thorough topology. I’d be happy to collaborate when I have time.
Jaclyn
January 11, 2022Bedroom Pop it is like one of my favorite genres.
Necrxnn
January 24, 2022Maplekore and Sigilkore.
GX•I
January 26, 2022EDM – Hardcore – Splittercore + Extratone + Supertone + Hypertone
GX•I
January 26, 2022also this is a good list
Joshua
February 4, 2022Speed Metal
gasvaf
February 6, 2022post rock under Rock
gino
February 6, 2022dark jazz
Lara
February 10, 2022Hi, I’m Lara from Neuquén, Patagonia Argentina.
I think that your list is almost complete. There are some genres from Latinoamérica’s folk music that are missing in the list.
Chacarera simple
Chacarera doble
Huayno
Chamamé
Zamba
Gato
Huella
Escondido
Cueca
Cueca del norte neuquino
Cueca Chilena
Milonga
Chamarrita
Vidala
Baguala
I’m sure that there are more but that’s all for this time.
lor
February 11, 2022Southern metal
Paul Abrahamsa
February 14, 2022The various genres of classical music are not well represented. A few examples:
Medieval
Gregorian chant
Twelve-tone
Cantatas
Atonal
Anthems
Concertos
Chamber music
String quartets
Karol
February 17, 2022-Nightcore
-Daycore
-Vocaloid
– Disco polo
-Music of Poland
-Polish Folk Music
Tomas Dan Jonsson
March 10, 2022I see that you do not have Vallenato listed. Vallenato is a seperate genre that is mainly from Colombia and is very important to popular culture in Colombia. It would thus be classified as a under Latin music. Subsequently I would not classify Baithak Gana as a Latin genre, as the main influence is from Indian music, maybe a better classification would be under South Asian music.
admin
March 12, 2022Thank you! Working on some list updates this weekend!
joseph
March 16, 2022horrorcore
Alex
April 7, 2022Crossbreed and technoid in Drum and Bass section
Rosetta
April 11, 2022Fluid Drum & Bass
Jonathan
May 2, 2022fado. from Portugal
admin
July 28, 2022Thanks, Jonathan… added (and I have fond memories of Sagres in Portugal!)
Duncan Thorburn
May 5, 2022Naming Genres/Types of Music by a Name and Link to their Origins, does have a Value. However, it is a VERY Little Value.
Because there is no Definition of the Music it’s self. What Instruments? What Scales and Keys? What Beats? What Rhythm Patterns? What Makes it different from it’s Parent Music Genre? What Musicians? What Cultural Links and Affects?
I could go on, as I am yet to find ANY Source that provides what I’m looking for, then my disappointments are diminished. THAT would be of value, especially to Musicians, and Music Historians. If I am mistaken, that there is just such a Web Site, Books, and/or Source or Sources, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
NXTL
July 24, 2022Hard Renaissance, Artcore, Extratone, Hi-Tech, Psystyle
NVTRL+
July 24, 2022Dreamcore, Weirdcore, Psystyle, Psycore, Hard Renaissance, Extratone, Frenchcore, Psystyle, Haose Music, Nightcore, Traumacore, Hi-Tech, Big House, Artcore
Spencer
September 27, 2022hyperpop
j
October 7, 2022Experimental Rock
Kraut Rock
Zeuhl
Queercore
Caitlin
October 18, 2022Hey ya. You missed some NY dance music genres: vogue beats, litefeet, FDM (flex dance music), & Krump music.
Cece
October 18, 2022What about FUNK and subgenres of funk???
Neferpizza
December 12, 2022Ska Punk
anthony
February 12, 2024me and other people are trying to get evil disco recognized as a music genre so please add it here sorry it it is on the list probaly not and no it is not disco it is metalish
Seth
March 6, 2024Country Christmas
slpcorner
March 18, 2024Seem to be missing Texas Swing