HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MUSIC GENRE?

Hello! Let's start with a basic concept first: A music genre is a classification of music based on some common characteristics. For example, rock is a musical genre that normally uses guitars, basses, and drums.

There is also something called style. Style is the detailed characteristics that are added by the individuals creating the work, that is, the way in which they use the instrumentation, production techniques, and musical ideas giving their personal focus within the music. Two very important aspects that go hand in hand but should not be confused.

Knowing this, let's continue with our point today, a study carried out by IFPI, (Representing the recording industry worldwide) launched the global report Music Listening 2019, which is responsible for investigating the genres most consumed by people between 16 and 64 years old In 21 countries around the world, this is the top 10 most listened to:

1. Pop
   Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in the late 1950s and is still the king of music billboards today.
   
   
2. Rock
   A popular music genre originating as rock and roll in the early 1950s in the United States and evolving into a wide range of different styles in the 1960s, its place with pop is debated in a narrow popularity gap.
   
   
3. Oldies
   Oldies is a radio formula dedicated to a musical period located approximately 26 to 55 years ago.
   
   
4. Hip hop
   It is a culture originating in the South Bronx and Harlem, in New York City, among young African-Americans and Puerto Ricans in the United States during 1970.
   
   
5. Dance / Electronic
   It is a set of electronic music genres, such as house, techno, trance, dubstep, Eurodance, hard dance, italo-disco, dance-pop, among others.
   
   
6. Indie / Alternative
   It is currently a musical subgenre of alternative rock, which originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s.
   
   
7. K-pop
   It is a musical genre that includes various styles such as electronic dance music, hip hop, rap, rock or R&B, and which specifically refers to South Korean popular music.
   
   
8. Metal
   It is a musical genre that was born in the mid-sixties and early seventies in the United Kingdom and in the United States, whose origins come from blues rock, hard rock, and psychedelic rock.
   
   
9. R&B
   It is a musical genre that combines elements of pop, soul, rhythm, and blues, funk, hip hop, and EDM.
   
   
10. Classical music
    It is the musical current that mainly marries music produced or based on the traditions of liturgical and secular music from the West, mainly Europe.

This is the most listened to of 2019 in the Spotify Wrapped

Most listened to artists:

1. Post Malone
2. Billie Eilish
3. Ariana Grande
4. Ed Sheeran
5. Bad bunny

Most played songs:

1. "Miss" - Camila Cabello, Shawn Mendes
2. "Bad guy" - Billie Eilish
3. "Sunflower" - Post Malone,
4. Swae Lee "7 Rings" - Ariana Grande
5. "Old Town Road - Remix" - Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrus

Most played albums:

1. WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? - Billie Eilish
2. Hollywood’s Bleeding - Post Malone
3. Thank U, Next - Ariana Grande
4. No.6 Collaborations Project - Ed Sheeran Shawn Mendes - Shawn Mendes

Which artist would you like to be on this list?

XOXO Li