History Main / MusicOfThe2010s

* Music/ThePretenders

* Music/{{KAAN}}
* Music/{{Kalush}}

* Music/ManuelReuter

* Music/TonyT

* Music/JamesTaylor

* Music/{{Rixton}}

* Rob Cantor

* Music/ThePixies

* {{Music/Sarina Paris}}

* Music/TaxiBand

* Music/AlexUbago

* {{Music/AronChupa}}

* {{Music/Daniel Skye}}

* {{Music/Jacob Sartorius}}

* {{Music/OMFG}}

* Music/SamFender

* {{Music/Sam And The Womp}}

* Music/CoreyHart

* Music/EsterDean

* Music/JasonDonovan

* Music/FourMinute

* Music/{{Adele}} has been popular in the UK since 2007, and her song "Chasing Pavements" got some attention in 2009. However, she never ascended to superstardom until 2011, when she released her second album, "21." In 2013, she won an Academy Award for Best Original Song with the title theme of ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', the first Film/JamesBond song to win such an award.

* Music/AlanWalker

* Music/TheB52s

* Music/LewisCapaldi became a big-time {{Soul}} singer right at the tail end of the decade with "Someone You Loved."

* Music/KellyClarkson got her biggest hit ever in 2012's "Stronger."

* Music/MileyCyrus is known this decade for her transition into an adult artist with 2013's ''Bangerz'', her infamous performance at the [=VMAs=] that same year, and the controversial music video of her song "Wrecking Ball."

* Music/BenFolds and his Five (okay, trio), reunited in 2012 and released "The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind."

* Music/FosterThePeople had an unlikely pop hit late in 2011 with "Pumped Up Kicks."

* {{Music/Flo Milli}}

* Music/{{Fun}} had two of the biggest hits of 2012 with "We Are Young" and "Some Nights."

* Music/SelenaGomez had her first hit with 2010's "Naturally."

* Music/CalvinHarris finally became popular outside the United Kingdom after producing Rihanna's "We Found Love."

* [[{{Music/K391}} K-391]]

* Music/CarlyRaeJepsen: Became popular outside of Canada with one of the biggest hit song of 2012, "Call Me Maybe."

* Music/LadyGaga finally topped the Billboard 200 in 2011 with "Born This Way."

* Music/{{LMFAO}} scored their first major hit in 2011 with "Party Rock Anthem."

* Music/DemiLovato had their biggest hit in 2012 with "Give Your Heart a Break."

* Music/NickiMinaj was already well-known thanks to her association with Lil Wayne, but finally broke through in 2010 with her album "Pink Friday." She went on to become one of the decades most prominent rap acts.

* Music/JanelleMonae finally had a monster hit on her hands when she provided guest vocals on fun.'s "We Are Young." Towards the end of the decade, she would release the album ''Dirty Computer'' which proved to be her breakout album.

* Music/NoahCyrus

* Music/{{Pink}} scored a chart-topping album in 2012 with "The Truth About Love."

* {{Music/Rico Nasty}}

* Music/VictoryBrinker

* Music/TheWallflowers

* Music/TheWeeknd was an R&B singer on Website/YouTube before achieving unexpected mainstream success in 2015 with three of the biggest hits of that year: "[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Earned It]]," "Can't Feel My Face," and "The Hills."

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* Alternative: Alternative is a genre that covers folk, indie and alternative versions of basic Rock and Pop. This continues to be the prevailing form of rock music in the mainstream. You'd be hard-pressed to find a rock band nowadays that doesn't have "alternative" or "indie" rock listed on their Wikipedia page. However, it's taken a LighterAndSofter turn starting from the beginning of the decade. Billboard and iTunes cross-referencing shows this to be somewhere between the 4th and 6th most popular basic genre in the 2010s. On the other hand, an often DarkerAndEdgier subgenre of IndiePop called BedroomPop started getting exposure in the second half of the decade.
* CountryMusic: Country music continues the slow and steady rise in popularity its enjoyed since the 90s. It's the third largest genre in the United States (thanks in part to the fall of R&B music) behind Pop and Hip-Hop. As well as the #1 most popular radio format in the United States. Stylistically, the biggest change in Country music is the rise of "bro-Country" artists such as Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, and Florida Georgia Line. The subgenre of Country incorporates elements of Pop, Hip-Hop, R&B, Rock and even Electronic into its vocal delivery, instrumental, and lyrics. The subgenre has come under scrutiny and criticism from many older Country singers, mostly for abandoning the traditional storytelling oriented lyrics of Country for formulaic lyrics revolving around partying and negative Southern stereotypes. None the less, the genre has expanded and revitalized Country's popularity and has provided us with some of the biggest Country artists of this decade.
* Dance: Dance covers a vast number of electronic production-based subgenres, where the star is the producer and the instrumental, rather than the vocalist and their vocals. Dance exploded in popularity in the 2010s and is the 4th - 6th most popular basic genre of this decade. In the mainstream, the genre ranges from party hits like LMFAO to artists who make feel good synthetic radio hits like Calvin Harris. Not only has Dance gained in popularity, it's also had a major effect on the world of Pop music, where SynthPop is one of the most popular subgenres of the current decade.
* Hip-Hop/Rap: While declining in popularity from the previous decade, Hip-Hop remains the second-largest basic genre, behind Pop. The genre began a steep decline in 2011, but began to pick up again in 2015. This is likely because the genre's young, urban listener base moved away from radio and purchases, towards internet streaming sites like Spotify, Tidal, Website/YouTube and even Vine, most of which had no way of accounting and reporting music's popularity until recently. Stylistically, Pop Rap artists like Music/FloRida, Music/IggyAzalea, and Music/TheBlackEyedPeas have played arguably an even larger role in Hip-Hop than the previous decade. The word [[TrapMusic "Trap"]] ceased to be associated with artists like Music/{{TI}}, Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane, and began to be associated with artists such as Fetty Wap, Future, and Desiigner, whose music features a mumble-like auto tuned MelodicRap inspired by Music/LilWayne. On top of this, a trend of internet phenomenon turned into rappers, inspired largely by Music/SouljaBoy, began to take form with artists like Bobby Shmurda, T-Wayne, Silento, and Rae Sremmurd capitalizing on dance trends and internet virility. The ability to sing and incorporate some level of [[ContemporaryRAndB R&B]] into your performance became nearly a requirement for a Hip-Hop artist to make it big in the 2010's. Rap also managed to expand well outside its previous decade's black male norm. In 2017, the genre rose to prominence with both previously moderately successful acts (Rae Sremmurd, Music/PostMalone, and Migos), already big but not huge names (Music/DJKhaled and Music/KendrickLamar [Billboard wise]) and breakout performers (Music/CardiB and Lil Uzi Vert) all netting their first #1s this year. The decade also saw the rise of emo/hardcore rap led by artists such as Music/XXXTentacion, Music/LilPeep, Lil Xan, Music/{{Suicideboys}}, Music/TrippieRedd, Ghostmane, Juice Wrld, 6ix9ine, and Scarlxrd among others.
* MelodicRap hit its biggest peak of popularity here, with Music/{{Drake}}, Music/{{Future}}, and several others seeing several chart-topping, multi-platinum albums and singles throughout the decade, becoming the most dominant style of rap music.
* Pop: This style of music returned to a level it hadn't enjoyed since the 1980s. With Hip-Hop and R&B out of the way, and fueled by the rising trend of Dance music, Pop takes center stage as the primary genre of the first half of the 2010s decade.
* RAndB[=/=]{{Soul}}: Other than Rock, this is likely the genre that declined the most from the previous decade. Ranked around 4th-6th place, R&B, both traditional and [[ContemporaryRAndB contemporary]] has largely been consumed by Hip-Hop and Pop. When radio stations shifted their focus from R&B to Pop in the mid 2000s, the person's share of the casual listening audience did as well. Singing rappers like Drake and Nicki Minaj bit into the core audience for R&B as well. The re-emergence of ElectronicMusic and SynthPop would also make a dent in R&B and many R&B acts changed their sound in order to stay relevant. With a few notable exceptions like Music/TheWeeknd and Music/{{Usher}} (with Music/{{Adele}} being THE R&B act of the 2010s), many R&B artists in the 2010s are seen as Music/ChrisBrown wannabes/knockoffs. AlternativeRAndB would arrive in this decade as well, which kept the genre on life support spurred by The Weeknd's success.
* As PopPunk and EmoMusic declined, beginning in the early 2010's a smaller movement called DefendPopPunk kept the idea going, with a more introverted and experimental take on the genre. Notable artists include Music/TheWonderYears and Music/AmericanFootball.
* Rock: While hard rock has struggled to crossover into the mainstream, classic rock radio has sometimes begun to play a few newer songs. Mainstream Rock (or Active Rock) begins to diverge from Alternative, by playing more hard rock and heavy metal. The Eleven Seven record label (now known as Better Noise Music) rises to prominence.
* PostPunk[=/=]GothRock[=/=]DarkWave: Genres under the goth genre umbrella experienced a renaissance during this decade, after two decades of obscurity and having been overshadowed by electronic based genres like Industrial and EBM in most goth circles. Bands such as Lebanon Hanover, Twin Tribes, Drab Majesty and a plethora of others led the charge. Meanwhile the post-punk scene exploded in Russia and the former Soviet Union, the most popular artist in the scene being Molchat Doma.
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* Music/YukihiroTakahashi