In the music business, you’re only as hot as your next album, but once you get hot, your popularity can skyrocket. As one of the most popular music genres in the world, country music counts some of ...

Introduction. They never even knew. What is a popular music genre? ; Music/Identification ; Charting popularity -- Foreign music and the emergence of phonography. Sound recording and new modes of the ...

Outrage quickly followed after a country music radio station in Oklahoma “initially refused a listener’s request to play” Beyoncé’s new song “Texas Hold ‘Em.” Roger Harris, KYKC’s station manager, ...

As music genres fade in and out of popularity, the most successful and interesting artists and albums will influence the tastes and styles of future music. So, when it comes to folk music in the ...

African gospel music has turned out to be a popular music genre in Sub-Saharan Africa. Spotify Wrapped revealed that African gospel music ranked ninth on the list of most streamed genres in ...