Types of Music in the World
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
- 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
- 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
- Alternative Dance
- 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..
- I will stop here ,but there are still like a thousand types of music with sub headings....
- Pls like ND share.
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