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Rhythms & Blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African-American communities in the 1940s. -
The 50's Rock
Rock and roll dominated popular music in the mid 1950s and late 1950s, and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world -
Disco
A genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. -
Heavy Metal
The 80s started pretty well for fans of Heavy Metal. The genre was still crawling some years before but exploded in the decade of 1980. -
Reggae
The 90s was the most prolific era for dancehall music and one in which Jamaican music made many strides. The decade is beloved by many and hailed as the sweetest time for commercially successful crossover dancehall fusion, sound clashes and juggling dances alike -
Pop Music
By the 2000s, pop was a genre with endless roads for artists to travel down, each with its own flair and twist to the classic traditions of pop music. Teen pop was existing in the music of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera -
Hip Hop
A strange sort of decade, where the music seemed to turn its back on both the big-budget gloss of chart rap and self-consciously worthy "real hip-hop", and enter its awkward art-school punk phase -- dressing weird, taking drugs, forgetting how to rap properly and making strange, spooky beats on its laptop -
Latin America Rises
Latin music achieved dominance in 2017, with Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” the party isn’t over for Latin music. Consumer demand for Latin music and the growth of streaming have pushed Latin music to the verge of mainstream – where Spanish-language songs compete with English-language songs on all charts