The most comprehensive list of genres of music available on the Internet

Music comes in many different types and styles ranging from traditional rock music to world pop, easy listening and bluegrass. Many genres have a rich history or geographical significance, a cult following or music roots that go far beyond the 20th century.

The Music Genres List site covers many of the most popular styles of music, the site is becoming the definitive list of music genres on the Internet – thanks to you – and if you feel any music genres are missing (we’re sure there are many!) please send an email to add @ musicgenreslist dot com and we’ll add to get closer to completing the music list of genres.

And a big thank you to the folks who have already sent in suggestions. We haven’t added them all as some are not easily verified or differentiated from our current list (and we get many music genres suggestions that are duplicates), however all the genres we can research and confirm as valid or derivatives or existing genres or music types, we’ve added and have attributed by way of thanks.

Keep them coming! Take me to the list of music genres below!

LIST OF TYPE OF MUSIC | MUSIC GENRES

Alternative Art Punk Alternative Rock Britpunk College Rock Crossover Thrash (thx Kevin G) Crust Punk (thx Haug) Emotional Hardcore (emo / emocore) – (Thanks Timothy) Experimental Rock Folk Punk Goth / Gothic Rock Grunge Hardcore Punk Hard Rock Indie Rock Lo-fi (hat tip to Ben Vee Bedlamite) Musique Concrète New Wave Progressive Rock Punk Shoegaze (with thx to Jackie Herrera) Steampunk (with thx to Christopher Schaeffer)

Anime

Blues Acoustic Blues African Blues Blues Rock Blues Shouter British Blues Canadian Blues Chicago Blues Classic Blues Classic Female Blues Contemporary Blues Contemporary R&B Country Blues Dark Blues (thx Stephen) Delta Blues Detroit Blues Doom Blues (cheers Stephen) Electric Blues Folk Blues Gospel Blues Harmonica Blues Hill Country Blues Hokum Blues Jazz Blues Jump Blues Kansas City Blues Louisiana Blues Memphis Blues Modern Blues New Orlean Blues NY Blues Piano Blues Piedmont Blues Punk Blues Ragtime Blues (cheers GFS) Rhythm Blues Soul Blues St. Louis Blues Soul Blues Swamp Blues Texas Blues Urban Blues Vandeville West Coast Blues Zydeco (thx Naomi McElynn – also under ‘World’ genre)





Children’s Music Lullabies Sing-Along Stories

Classical Avant-Garde Ballet Baroque Cantata Chamber Music String Quartet Chant Choral Classical Crossover Concerto Concerto Grosso Contemporary Classical (thx Julien Palliere) Early Music Expressionist (thx Mr. Palliere) High Classical Impressionist Mass Requiem Medieval Minimalism Modern Composition Modern Classical Opera Oratorio Orchestral Organum Renaissance Romantic (early period) Romantic (later period) Sonata Symphonic Symphony Wedding Music

Comedy Novelty Parody Music (Weird Al!) Stand-up Comedy Vaudeville (cheers Ben Vee Bedlamite)

Commercial (thank you Sheldon Reynolds) Jingles TV Themes

Country Alternative Country Americana Australian Country Bakersfield Sound Bluegrass Progressive Bluegrass Reactionary Bluegrass Blues Country Cajun Fiddle Tunes Christian Country Classic Country Close Harmony Contemporary Bluegrass Contemporary Country Country Gospel Country Pop (thanks Sarah Johnson) Country Rap Country Rock Country Soul Cowboy / Western Cowpunk Dansband Honky Tonk Franco-Country Gulf and Western Hellbilly Music Honky Tonk Instrumental Country Lubbock Sound Nashville Sound Neotraditional Country Outlaw Country Progressive Psychobilly / Punkabilly Red Dirt Sertanejo Texas County Traditional Bluegrass Traditional Country Truck-Driving Country Urban Cowboy Western Swing Zydeco

Dance (EDM – Electronic Dance Music – see Electronic below – with thx to Eric Shaffer-Whiting & Drew :-)) Club / Club Dance (thx Luke Allfree) Breakcore Breakbeat / Breakstep 4-Beat Acid Breaks Baltimore Club Big Beat Breakbeat Hardcore Broken Beat Florida Breaks Nu Skool Breaks Brostep (cheers Tom Berckley) Chillstep (thx Matt) Deep House (cheers Venus Pang) Dubstep Electro House (thx Luke Allfree) Electroswing Exercise Future Garage (thx Ran’dom Haug) Garage Glitch Hop (cheers Tom Berckley) Glitch Pop (thx Ran’dom Haug) Grime (thx Ran’dom Haug / Matthew H) Hardcore Bouncy House Bouncy Techno Breakcore Digital Hardcore Doomcore Dubstyle Gabber Happy Hardcore Hardstyle Jumpstyle Makina Speedcore Terrorcore Uk Hardcore



Hard Dance Hi-NRG / Eurodance Horrorcore (thx Matt) House Acid House Chicago House Deep House Diva House Dutch House Electro House Freestyle House French House Funky House Ghetto House Hardbag Hip House Italo House Latin House Minimal House Progressive House Rave Music Swing House Tech HouseTribal House UK Hard House US Garage Vocal House Jackin House (with thx to Jermaine Benjamin Dale Bruce) Jungle / Drum’n’bass Liquid Dub(thx Ran’dom Haug) Regstep (thanks to ‘Melia G) Speedcore (cheers Matt) Techno Acid Techno Detroit Techno Free Tekno Ghettotech Minimal Nortec Schranz Techno-Dnb Technopop Tecno Brega Toytown Techno Trance Acid Trance Classic Trance Dream Trance Goa Trance Dark Psytrance Full on Psybreaks Psyprog Suomisaundi Hard Trance Tech Trance Uplifting Trance Orchestral Uplifting Vocal Trance Trap (thx Luke Allfree)

Disney

Easy Listening Background Bop Elevator Furniture Lounge Middle of the Road Swing

Electronic 2-Step (thx Ran’dom Haug) 8bit – aka 8-bit, Bitpop and Chiptune – (thx Marcel Borchert) Ambient Ambient Dub Ambient House Ambient Techno Dark Ambient Drone Music Illbient Isolationism Lowercase Asian Underground Bassline (thx Leon Oliver) Chillwave(thx Ran’dom Haug) Chiptune (kudos to Dominik Landahl) Bitpop Game Boy Nintendocore Video Game Music Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass Crunk (with thx to Jillian Edwards) Downtempo Acid Jazz Balearic Beat Chill Out Dub Music Dubtronica Ethnic Electronica Moombahton Nu Jazz Trip Hop Drum & Bass (thx Luke Allfree) Darkcore Darkstep Drumfunk Drumstep Hardstep Intelligent Drum and Bass Jump-Up Liquid Funk Neurofunk Oldschool Jungle: Darkside Jungle Ragga Jungle Raggacore Sambass Techstep Electro Crunk Electro Backbeat Electro-Grime Electropop



Electro-swing (thank you Daniel Forthofer) Electroacoustic Acousmatic Music Computer Music Electroacoustic Improvisation Field Recording Live Coding Live Electronics Soundscape Composition Tape Music Electronica Berlin School Chillwave Electronic Art Music Electronic Dance Music Folktronica Freestyle Music Glitch Idm Laptronica Skweee Sound Art Synthcore Electronic Rock Alternative Dance Baggy Madchester Dance-Punk Dance-Rock Dark Wave Electroclash Electronicore Electropunk Ethereal Wave Indietronica New Rave Space Rock Synthpop Synthpunk Eurodance Bubblegum Dance Italo Dance Turbofolk Hardstyle (kudos to Dominik Landahl) Hi-Nrg Eurobeat Hard Nrg New Beat IDM/Experimental Industrial Trip Hop (thank you Michael Tait Tafoya) UK Garage 2-Step 4×4 Bassline Grime Speed Garage

Enka

French Pop

Folk Music (also under various other categories) American Folk Revival Anti-Folk British Folk Revival Contemporary Folk Filk Music Freak Folk Indie Folk Industrial Folk Neofolk Progressive Folk Psychedelic Folk Sung Poetry Techno-Folk

German Folk

German Pop

Fitness & Workout

Hip-Hop/Rap Alternative Rap Avant-Garde Bounce Chap Hop Christian Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop Country-Rap Crunkcore Cumbia Rap Dirty South East Coast Brick City Club Hardcore Hip Hop Mafioso Rap New Jersey Hip Hop



Freestyle Rap G-Funk Gangsta Rap Golden Age Hardcore Rap Hip-Hop Hip Pop Hyphy Industrial Hip Hop Instrumental Hip Hop Jazz Rap Latin Rap Low Bap Lyrical Hip Hop Merenrap Midwest Hip Hop Chicago Hip Hop Detroit Hip Hop Horrorcore St. Louis Hip Hop Twin Cities Hip Hop Motswako Nerdcore New Jack Swing New School Hip Hop Old School Rap Rap Turntablism (thank you Luke Allfree) Underground Rap West Coast Rap

Holiday Chanukah Christmas Christmas: Children’s Christmas: Classic Christmas: Classical Christmas: Comedy Christmas: Jazz Christmas: Modern Christmas: Pop Christmas: R&B Christmas: Religious Christmas: Rock Easter Halloween Holiday: Other Thanksgiving

Indie Pop

Industrial Aggrotech Coldwave Cybergrind Dark Electro Death Industrial Electro-Industrial Electronic Body Music Futurepop Industrial Metal Neue Deutsche Härte Industrial Rock Noise Japanoise Power Electronics Power Noise Witch House

Inspirational – Christian & Gospel CCM Christian Metal Christian Pop Christian Rap Christian Rock Classic Christian Contemporary Gospel Gospel Christian & Gospel Praise & Worship Qawwali (with thx to Jillian Edwards) Southern Gospel Traditional Gospel

Instrumental March (Marching Band)

J-Pop (also under ‘Asian’) J-Rock J-Synth J-Ska J-Punk

Jazz Acid Jazz (with thx to Hunter Nelson) Avant-Garde Jazz Bebop (thx Mwinogo1) Big Band Blue Note (with thx to Jillian Edwards) Contemporary Jazz Cool Crossover Jazz Dixieland Ethio-jazz (with thx to Jillian Edwards) Fusion Gypsy Jazz (kudos to Mike Tait Tafoya) Hard Bop Latin Jazz Mainstream Jazz Ragtime Smooth Jazz Trad Jazz Third Stream (cheers Benjamin Jackson-Reynolds) Jazz-Funk Free Jazz Modal Jazz

K-Pop (also under ‘Asian’)

Karaoke

Kayokyoku

Latin Alternativo & Rock Latino Argentine tango (gracias P. Moth & Sandra Sanders) Bachata Baithak Gana Baladas y Boleros Bolero Bossa Nova (with thx to Marcos José Sant’Anna Magalhães & Alex Ede for the reclassification) Brazilian Axé Bossa Nova Brazilian Rock Brega Choro Forró Frevo Funk Carioca Lambada Maracatu Música Popular Brasileira Música Sertaneja Pagode Samba Samba Rock Tecnobrega Tropicalia Zouk-Lambada



Chicha Criolla Contemporary Latin Cumbia (gracias Richard Kemp) Flamenco / Spanish Flamenco (thank you Michael Tait Tafoya & Sandra Sanders) Huayno Latin Jazz Mariachi Merengue Típico (thank you Jeff Ortiz) Nuevo Flamenco (and again Michael Tafoya) Pop Latino Portuguese fado (and again Sandra Sanders) Punta Punta Rock Ranchera Raíces Raison Reggaeton y Hip-Hop Regional Mexicano Salsa y Tropical Soca Son Tejano Timba Twoubadou Zouk

Metal (with massive thanks to Mich Weber) Heavy Metal Speed Metal Thrash Metal Power Metal Death Metal Black Metall Pagan Metal Viking Metal Folk Metal Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal Glam Metal Hair Metal Doom Metal Groove Metal Industrial Metal Modern Metal Neoclassical Metal New Wave Of British Heavy Metal Post Metal Progressive Metal Avantgarde Metal Sludge Djent Drone Kawaii Metal Pirate Metal Nu Metal Neue Deutsche Härte Math Metal Crossover Grindcore Hardcore Metalcore Deathcore Post Hardcore Mathcore

New Age Environmental Healing Meditation Nature Relaxation Travel

Opera

Pop Adult Contemporary Arab Pop Baroque Britpop Bubblegum Pop (thx Haug & John Maher) Chamber Pop (thx Haug) Chanson Christian Pop Classical Crossover Europop Austropop Balkan Pop French Pop Latin Pop Laïkó Nederpop Russian Pop Dance Pop Dream Pop (thx Haug) Electro Pop (thx Haug) Iranian Pop Jangle Pop Latin Ballad Levenslied Louisiana Swamp Pop Mexican Pop Motorpop New Romanticism Orchestral Pop (thx Haug) Pop Rap Popera Pop/Rock Pop Punk (thx Makenzie) Power Pop (thx Haug) Psychedelic Pop Schlager Soft Rock Sophisti-Pop Space Age Pop Sunshine Pop Surf Pop Synthpop (thx Haug) Teen Pop Traditional Pop Music Turkish Pop Vispop Wonky Pop

Post-Disco Boogie Dance-pop

Progressive Progressive House / Trance Disco House Dream House Space House Japanese House Bounce / Scouse House Progressive Breaks Progressive Drum & Bass Progressive Techno

R&B/Soul Contemporary R&B Disco (not a top level genre Sheldon Reynolds!) Doo Wop Funk Modern Soul (Cheers Nik) Motown Neo-Soul Northern Soul (Cheers Nik & John Maher) Psychedelic Soul (thank you John Maher) Quiet Storm Soul Soul Blues (Cheers Nik) Southern Soul (Cheers Nik)

Reggae 2-Tone (thx GFS) Dancehall Dub Roots Reggae Reggae Fusion Reggae en Español Spanish Reggae Reggae 110 Reggae Bultrón Romantic Flow Lovers Rock Raggamuffin Ragga Dancehall



Ska 2 Tone Dub Rocksteady

Rock Acid Rock (with thanks to Alex Antonio) Adult-Oriented Rock (thanks to John Maher) Afro Punk Adult Alternative Alternative Rock (thx Caleb Browning) American Traditional Rock Anatolian Rock Arena Rock Art Rock Blues-Rock British Invasion Cock Rock Death Metal / Black Metal Doom Metal (thx Kevin G) Glam Rock Gothic Metal (fits here Sam DeRenzis – thx) Grind Core Hair Metal Hard Rock Math Metal (cheers Kevin) Math Rock (thx Ran’dom Haug) Metal Metal Core (thx Ran’dom Haug) Noise Rock (genre – Japanoise – thx Dominik Landahl) Jam Bands Post Punk (thx Ben Vee Bedlamite) Prog-Rock/Art Rock Progressive Metal (thx Ran’dom Haug) Psychedelic Rock & Roll Rockabilly (it’s here Mark Murdock!) Roots Rock Singer/Songwriter Southern Rock Spazzcore (thx Haug) Stoner Metal (duuuude) Surf Technical Death Metal (cheers Pierre) Tex-Mex Thrash Metal (thanks to Pierre A) Time Lord Rock (Trock) ~ (thanks to ‘Melia G) Trip-hop (Ta Will)

Singer/Songwriter Alternative Folk Contemporary Folk Contemporary Singer/Songwriter Indie Folk (with thanks to Andrew Barrett) Folk-Rock Love Song (Chanson – merci Marcel Borchert) New Acoustic Traditional Folk

Soundtrack Foreign Cinema Movie Soundtrack (thanks Julien) Musicals Original Score Soundtrack TV Soundtrack

Spoken Word

Tex-Mex / Tejano (with thx to Israel Lopez) Chicano Classic Conjunto Conjunto Progressive New Mex Tex-Mex

Vocal A cappella (with kudos to Sheldon Reynolds) Barbershop (with thx to Kelly Chism) Cantique (sacred vocal) Doo-wop (with thx to Bradley Thompson) Gregorian Chant (hat tip to Deborah Knight-Nikifortchuk) Standards Traditional Pop Vocal Jazz Vocal Pop

World Africa African Heavy Metal African Hip Hop Afro-Beat Afro-Pop Apala Benga Bikutsi Bongo Flava Cape Jazz Chimurenga Coupé-Décalé Fuji Music Genge Highlife Hiplife Isicathamiya Jit Jùjú Kapuka Kizomba Kuduro Kwaito Kwela Makossa Maloya Marrabenta Mbalax Mbaqanga Mbube Morna Museve Palm-Wine Raï Sakara Sega Seggae Semba Soukous Taarab Zouglou Asia Anison C-Pop Cantopop Enka Hong Kong English Pop Fann At-Tanbura Fijiri J-Pop Japanese Pop K-Pop Khaliji Kayōkyoku Korean Pop Liwa Mandopop Onkyokei Taiwanese Pop Sawt Australia Cajun Calypso (thx Gerald John) Caribbean Chutney Chutney Soca Compas Mambo Merengue Méringue



Carnatic (Karnataka Sanghetha – thx Abhijith) Celtic Celtic Folk Contemporary Celtic Coupé-décalé (thx Samy) – Congo Dangdut (thank you Achmad Ivanny) Drinking Songs Drone (with thx to Robert Conrod) Europe France Hawaii Japan Klezmer Mbalax (thank you Samy) – Senegal Middle East North America Ode (thank you Sheldon Reynolds) Piphat (cheers Samy B) – Thailand Polka Soca (thx Gerald John) South Africa South America South / Southeast Asia Baila Bhangra Bhojpuri Dangdut Filmi Indian Pop Hindustani (thank you Abhijith) Indian Ghazal (thank you Gitika Thakur) Lavani Luk Thung Luk Krung Manila Sound Morlam Pinoy Pop Pop Sunda Ragini Thai Pop Traditional Celtic Worldbeat Zydeco

