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  • Writer's pictureArashk Azizi
    • Dec 14, 2021
    • 6 min read

Complete List of musical genres!

The most complete list of music genres and styles from every corner of the world.


The music genre is the best tool for everybody to find their favorite music. When you know your favorite genre, you definitely know how to find more music similar to your loved ones. But how many genres are there?


The complete list of music genres may never end. There is no “one list” that contains all the different genres and styles. Every culture and even city has its own style of a certain genre, therefore we have as much as the number of cities in the world just for the genre of Pop. the same goes for every other genre too. We have tried to gather the most complete list of genres. We must surely give a lot of credit to the "music genre list" website for their amazing list. Though we made lots of changes especially under the folk and world music sub-genres to make it even more complete. Don’t forget to give us your feedback and let us know of any genre or style that you think is missing from our list.



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 Ho

  • Motswako

  • Nerdcore

  • New Jack Swing

  • New School Hip Hop

  • Old School Rap

  • Rap

  • Turntablism

  • Underground Rap

  • West Coast Rap


Pop

  • Adult Contemporary

  • Arab Pop

  • Baroque

  • Britpop

  • Bubblegum Pop

  • Chamber Pop

  • Chanson

  • Christian Pop

  • Europop

- Austropop

- Balkan Pop

- Baltic Pop

- Latin Pop

- Laïkó

- Nederpop

- German Pop

- Italian Pop

- French Pop

- Russian Pop

  • Dance Pop

  • Dream Pop

  • Electro-Pop

  • Iranian Pop (AKA - Persian Pop)

  • Indie Pop

  • Instrumental Pop

  • Jangle Pop

  • J-Pop (also under ‘Asian’)

- J-Rock

- J-Synth

- J-Ska

- J-Punk

  • K-Pop (also under ‘Asian’)

  • Latin Ballad

  • Levenslied

  • Louisiana Swamp Pop

  • Mexican Pop

  • Motorpop

  • New Romanticism

  • Orchestral Pop

  • Pop Rap

  • Popera

  • Pop/Rock

  • Pop Punk

  • Power Pop

  • Psychedelic Pop

  • Schlager

  • Soft Rock

  • Sophisti-Pop

  • Space Age Pop

  • Sunshine Pop

  • Surf Pop

  • Synthpop

  • Teen Pop

  • Traditional Pop Music

  • Turkish Pop

  • Vispop

  • Wonky Pop


Rock

  • Acid Rock

  • Adult-Oriented Rock

  • AfroPunk

  • Adult Alternative

  • Alternative Rock

  • American Traditional Rock

  • Anatolian Rock

  • Arabic Rock

  • Arena Rock

  • Art Rock

  • Blues-Rock

  • British Invasion

  • Birmingham Rock

  • Cock Rock

  • Death Metal / Black Metal

  • Doom Metal

  • Glam Rock

  • Gothic Metal

  • Grindcore

  • Hair Metal

  • Hard Rock

  • Math Metal

  • Math Rock

  • Metal

  • Metal Core

  • Noise Rock

  • Jam Bands

  • Post Punk

  • Persian Rock

  • Prog-Rock/Art Rock

  • Progressive Metal

  • Psychedelic

  • Rockabilly

  • Roots Rock

  • Singer/Songwriter

  • Southern Rock

  • Symphonic Metal

  • Symphonic Rock

  • Spazzcore

  • Stoner Metal

  • Surf

  • Technical Death Metal

  • Tex-Mex

  • Thrash Metal

  • Time Lord Rock

  • Turkish Rock

  • Trip-hop


Classical

  • Avant-Garde

  • Ballet

  • Baroque

  • Cantata

  • Chamber Music

- String Quartet

- Brass Quintet

- Woodwind Quintet

- Trio

- Duet

  • Chant

- Plain Chant (Also under Religious)

- Gregorian Chant (Also under Religious)

- Renaissance Religious Chant (Also under Religious)

- Renaissance Secular Chant

  • Choral

  • Classical Crossover

  • Concerto

  • Concerto Grosso

  • Contemporary Classical

  • Early Music

  • Expressionist

  • High Classical

  • Impressionist

  • Mass Requiem

  • Madrigal

  • Medieval

  • Minimalism

  • Modern Composition

  • Modern Classical

  • Opera

  • Oratorio

  • Orchestral

  • Organum

  • Renaissance

  • Romantic (early period)

  • Romantic (later period)

  • Sonata

  • Symphonic

  • Suite


Jazz

  • Acid Jazz

  • Avant-Garde Jazz

  • Bebop

  • Big Band

  • Blue Note

  • Contemporary Jazz

  • Cool

  • Crossover Jazz

  • Dixieland

  • Ethio-jazz

  • Fusion

  • Gypsy Jazz

  • Hard Bop

  • Latin Jazz

  • Mainstream Jazz

  • Ragtime

  • Smooth Jazz

  • Trad Jazz


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

  • Delta Blues

  • Detroit Blues

  • 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

  • Rhythm Blues

  • Soul Blues

  • St. Louis Blues

  • Soul Blues

  • Swamp Blues

  • Texas Blues

  • Urban Blues

  • Vandeville

  • West Coast Blues

  • Zydeco


Alternative

  • Art Punk

  • Alternative Rock

  • Britpunk

  • College Rock

  • Crossover Thrash

  • Crust Punk

  • Emotional Hardcore (emo/emocore)

  • Experimental Rock

  • Folk Punk

  • Goth / Gothic Rock

  • Grunge

  • Hardcore Punk

  • Hard Rock

  • Indie Rock

  • Lo-fi

  • Musique Concrète

  • New Wave

  • Progressive Rock

  • Punk

  • Shoegaze

  • Steampunk


Biomusic


Children’s Music

  • Lullabies

  • Sing-Along

  • Stories


Comedy

  • Novelty

  • Parody Music

  • Vaudeville


Commercial


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

  • 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)

  • Club / Club Dance

  • Breakcore

  • Breakbeat / Breakstep

- 4-Beat

- Acid Breaks

- Baltimore Club

- Big Beat

- Breakbeat Hardcore

- Broken Beat

- Florida Breaks

- Nu Skool Breaks

  • Brostep

  • Chillstep

  • Deep House

  • Dubstep

  • Electro House

  • Electro Swing

  • Exercise

  • Future Garage

  • Garage

  • Glitch Hop

  • Glitch Pop

  • Grime

  • 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

  • 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 House, Tribal House

- UK Hard House

- US Garage

- Vocal House

  • Jackin House

  • Jungle / Drum’n’bass

  • Liquid Dub

  • Regstep

  • Speedcore

  • 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


Easy Listening

  • Background

  • Bop

  • Elevator

  • Furniture

  • Lounge

  • Middle of the Road

  • Swing


Electronic

  • 2-Step

  • 8bit – aka 8-bit, Bitpop and Chiptune

  • Ambient

- Ambient Dub

- Ambient House

- Ambient Techno

- Dark Ambient

- Drone Music

- Illbient

- Isolationism

- Lowercase

  • Asian Underground

  • Bassline

  • Chillwave

  • Chiptune

- Bitpop

- Game Boy

- Nintendocore

- Video Game Music

- Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass

  • Crunk

  • Downtempo

- Acid Jazz

- Balearic Beat

- Chill Out

- Dub Music

- Dubtronica

- Ethnic Electronica

- Moombahton

- Nu Jazz

- Trip Hop

  • Drum & Bass

- 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

  • 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

  • Hi-Nrg

- Eurobeat

- Hard Nrg

- New Beat

  • IDM/Experimental

  • Industrial

  • Trip Hop

  • UK Garage

- 2-Step

- 4×4

- Bassline

- Grime

- Speed Garage


Enka


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

  • Western European Folk

  • Eastern European Folk

  • Baltic Folk

  • Nordic Folk

  • Balkan Folk

  • Russian Folk

  • Middle Eastern Folk

- Turkish Folk

- Azeri Folk

- Armenian Folk

- Arabic Folk

- Belly Dance

- Kurdish Folk

- Khorasani Folk

- Balochi Folk

- Pashto Folk

- Hazara Folk

- Tajik Folk

- Lori Folk

- Turkmen Folk

- Persian Folk

- Sufi Music

  • Indian Folk

- Tamang Selo

- Bhavageethe

- Bhangra and Giddha

- Bihugeet

- Lavani

- Dandiya

- Jhumair and Domkach

- Pandavani

- Bauls

- Bhatiali

- Garba

- Dollu Kunita

- Kolata/Kolattam

- Uttarakhandi

- Veeragase

- Naatupura Paatu

  • African Folk

  • Chinese Folk

  • Japanese Folk


Fitness & Workout


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


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

  • Southern Gospel

  • Traditional Gospel


Karaoke


Kayokyoku


Latin

  • Alternativo & Rock Latino

  • Argentine tango

  • Bachata

  • Baithak Gana

  • Baladas y Boleros

  • Bolero

  • Bossa Nova

  • 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

  • Flamenco / Spanish Flamenco

  • Huayno

  • Latin Jazz

  • Mariachi

  • Nuevo Flamenco

  • Pop Latino

  • Portuguese fado

  • Punta

  • Punta Rock

  • Ranchera

  • Raíces

  • Raison

  • Reggaeton y Hip-Hop

  • Regional Mexicano

  • Salsa y Tropical

  • Soca

  • Son

  • Tejano

  • Timba

  • Twoubadou

  • Zouk


  • Environmental

  • Healing

  • Meditation

  • Nature

  • Relaxation

  • Travel


Post-Disco

  • Boogie

  • Dance-pop


Progressive

  • Progressive House / Trance

- Disco House

- Dream House

- Space House

  • Progressive Breaks

  • Progressive Drum & Bass

  • Progressive Techno


R&B/Soul

  • Contemporary R&B

  • Disco

  • Doo Wop

  • Funk

  • Modern Soul

  • Motown

  • Neo-Soul

  • Northern Soul

  • Psychedelic Soul

  • Quiet Storm

  • Soul

  • Soul Blues

  • Southern Soul


Reggae

  • 2-Tone

  • 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


Religious

  • Buddhist Music

  • Islamic Chants

  • Christian Chants

- Plain Chant (Also under Classical)

- Gregorian Chant (Also under Classical)

- Renaissance Religious Chant (Also under Classical)

  • Jewish Religious Music


Singer/Songwriter

  • Alternative Folk

  • Contemporary Folk

  • Contemporary Singer/Songwriter

  • Indie Folk

  • Folk-Rock

  • Love Song

  • New Acoustic

  • Traditional Folk


Soundtrack

  • Foreign Cinema

  • Movie Soundtrack

  • Musicals

  • Original Score

  • Soundtrack

  • TV Soundtrack

  • Disney

  • Anime

  • Ringtone

  • Porn Groove


Tex-Mex / Tejano

  • Chicano

  • Classic

  • Conjunto

  • Conjunto Progressive

  • New Mex

  • Tex-Mex


Vocal

  • A cappella

  • Barbershop

  • Cantique

  • Doo-wop

  • Gregorian Chant

  • Standards

  • Spoken Word

  • Traditional Pop

  • Vocal Jazz

  • Vocal Pop


World Music

  • 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

  • Caribbean

- Chutney

- Chutney Soca

- Compas

- Mambo

- Merengue

- Méringue

  • Carnatic

  • Celtic

  • Celtic Folk

  • Contemporary Celtic

  • Coupé-décalé – Congo

  • Dangdut

  • Drinking Songs

  • Drone

  • Europe

  • France

  • Hawaii

  • Japan

  • Klezmer

  • Mbalax – Senegal

  • Middle East

- Arabic Classical

- Afghan Classical

- Middle Eastern Maqami

- Persian Classical

- Persian Talfiqi

- Turkish Classical

  • North America

  • Ode

  • Piphat – Thailand

  • Polka

  • Soca

  • South Africa

  • South America

  • South / Southeast Asia

- Baila

- Bhangra

- Bhojpuri

- Dangdut

- Filmi

- Indian Pop

- Indian Classical

- Indian Raga

- Hindustani

- Indian Ghazal

- Lavani

- Luk Thung

- Luk Krung

- Manila Sound

- Morlam

- Pinoy Pop

- Pop Sunda

- Ragini

- Thai Pop

  • Traditional Celtic

  • Worldbeat

  • Zydeco





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