Music Genres Explorer: 6000+ Music Genres & Types


Discover music genres, listen to music examples, find top artists in each genre and find similar genres. Choose a genre to see a playlist and a list of artists who belong to that subgenre sorted by popularity. Also, you will get a list of genres that are similar or somehow related to that genre.

A lot of different types of music are here (we created this list using data from Spotify). Discover what every genre of music sounds like. Just click on any genre explore artists and more details.

How many musical genres are there?

We collected 6000+ genres from the Spotify API and then separated them into groups using an algorithm developed by our team. Each main genre represents a well known big music genre like Pop, Electronic, Jazz .. And you can see all the sub-genres under it, ordered by popularity. We created a Spotify playlist from the popular music tracks that belong to every genre, again by developing an algorithm for that purpose.

Music genres list



Most popular music genres in 2022

In order to find the top music genres we analyzed Spotify’s Top Artists of 2022 playlist using our Playlist Analyzer tool. And here is the result is this genre chart:

Top genres 2022

 

So clearly the Hip Hop/Rap genre was on top in 2022, but Pop is also very popular followed by Latin, Electronic , R&B and Easy listening.

Now we looked at the main genres, let’s take a look at sub-genres chart:

 

The top subgenres are pop, rap, urbano latino, trap latino, hip hop, dance pop .. and there are many more subgenres. You can click this link to see the live analysis.