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This article is an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 2010s.
events and trends in popular musicin the 2010s. By the mid-2010s, the hushed style of vocal delivery commonly used in indie music garnered widespread...
died in the 2010s decade. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age. Rock music developed from the rock and roll music that...
advertisement-based services (see 2000s in the music industry). There are currently five big players in the digital music distribution space: Spotify, Apple...
The 2010s (pronounced "twenty-tens" or "two thousand [and] tens"), variously nicknamed "the '10s" ("the Tens"), "the Tenties", or more rarely "the Teens"...
less prevalent in more modern trends. The influence of rock musicin country has become more overt during the late 2000s and early 2010s. Most of the best-selling...
Drill is a subgenre of hip hop music that originated in Chicago in the early 2010s. It is sonically similar to the trap music subgenre and lyrically similar...
The decade of the 2010sin film involved many significant developments in the motion picture industry as Disney towered all over its competitors. The...
The 2010s were defined by hipster fashion, athleisure, a revival of austerity-era period pieces and alternative fashions, swag-inspired outfits, 1980s-style...
and funky sound. During the 2010s, in the UK and in the US, many records labels stayed true to the original house music sound from the 1980s. It includes...
electronic music and a subgenre of hauntology, a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s, and became well-known in 2015. It...
Trap music originated from techno, dub, and Dutch house, but also from the original off-shoot of Southern hip hop in the late 2000s and early 2010s. This...
by rapper SpaceGhostPurrp in the early 2010s. Drift phonk is a subgenre of phonk that emerged in Russia in the late-2010s; its distinguishing features...
hip hop is a form of downtempo music that combines elements of hip hop and chill-out music. It was popularized in the 2010s on YouTube. Lo-fi hip-hop originated...
indie rock movement would play an important role in the continued evolution of hip-hop. In the 2010s, a new form of gangsta rap known as drill emerged...
was certified gold in the UK. Emo rap is a genre that combines emo music with hip hop music. The genre began in the mid–to late 2010s. Although emo rap...
though they were still mostly heard only in rock discos. But in 1981, the floodgates opened, and "new music" at last made a mighty splash. The breakthrough...
gaining popularity in the East Coast. In the early to mid-2010s, the genre of hyphy music saw a resurgence in the mainstream as a part of being a stylistic...
Future bass is a style of electronic dance music which developed in the 2010s that mixes elements of dubstep and trap with warmer, less abrasive rhythms...
loosely defined electronic music movement and microgenre that predominantly originated in the United Kingdom during the early 2010s. It is characterised by...
pianist December 22 – David Gold, heavy metal singer (Woods of Ypres) 2010sinmusic 2011 in Canadian television "Immaculate Machine Call It a Day" Archived...
Plugg (also spelled plug) is a sub-genre of trap music that emerged in the mid-2010s via online distribution on platform SoundCloud. It was popularized...
summary of developments in culture during the 2010s. Superhero films became box office leaders. Animated films in the 2010s remained predominantly computer-generated...
Wave is a genre of bass music and a visual art style that emerged in the early 2010sin online communities. It is characterized by atmospheric melodies...
as Suicide Silence's The Black Crown (2012), led to a wave of bands in the mid-2010s taking influence from nu metal. My Ticket Home's Strangers Only (2013)...
remained a niche genre throughout the 2010s. In 2017, PC Gamer noted that synthwave influences were to be felt in early 2010s gaming releases, primarily of the...
Nerd music (or geek music) is the overall category of music collecting the musical genres that grew from nerd culture; different styles that share the...