Music of United Kingdom | The Great Britain

Britain has produced a lot of great musicians from Beatles to Queen, Led zeppelin to Pink Floyd, John Lennon to David Bowie, Elton John to Spice girls, Adele to Ed Sheeran and many more. Through the passage of time, Britain taste for music has changed. If we compare the old music produced and listened in Britain to today’s, we would see a huge difference. From 1950 to 1980, Rock music was very popular in Britain and the reasons for this popularity were the legendary bands that were famous at that time. All these bands were popular worldwide and were trendsetters around the globe. These bands included The Beatles, Led zeppelin, Queen, Pink Floyd. But as these bands started getting disbanded the music started changing.

After 1980, music taste started shifting towards more acoustic nature. Rap and hip hop are famous in Britain but not as much as acoustic music. In the recent years, Britain has produced artists like Ed sheeran, Adele, One direction, Sheryl, little mix, Jonas brothers. Ever since the debut of these artists these artists have been very popular in Britain. When it comes to hip hop, Britain takes a lot of influences from the rest of the world any big hits that famous around the globe especially in the US tend to trend high in Britain as well.

When we look at rap music in Britain. It is quite different from the rap music in US considering Britain’s rap music has been inspired by the American rap. But if we look at the rap music in Britain today, it has its own identity, it is nothing like American rap. That is one of the reason why Britain tends to be more famous in Britain than in US and the rest of the world because it is very different what the people expect, people expect it to be more like US rap. Britain’s rap music is commonly known as “Grime music”, basically what means is that it is a type rap that performed with some techno hiphop beat in the background. All the grime music has this in common, it is their signature. Some of the big names of rap in Britain are Stromzy, kano, Jme, Wretch 32, chip, Professor Green, Michael Dapaah, Riz ahmed. Stromzy is the most streamed rapper out of all these artists. Stromzy’s “Shut up” debuted as #1 not only in Britain but also in Scotland and Northern Irelands.