Music of United States of America (USA)

America is a diverse place, there are people from different races and cultures living in USA. That is why the taste of music in US differs a lot. There is a general trend in US that people really like rap and hip hop music. To take an example; Justin Bieber recently came out with a new album and 6 out of 10 songs were on iTunes top songs. In US, hip-hop music is heard a lot in US if you look at iTunes top 10, 5 songs are hip-hop while 3 of them are rap.

Rap music also has a huge audience in the US, if we look at top 3 albums on iTunes, two of those albums are rap; “lil uzi vert’s Eternal Atake (deluxe) LUV vs the world 2” and “Eminem’s Music to be murdered by”. There is a huge number of rappers who have gone platinum with their albums. Naming a few of them like Eminem, lil uzi very, Drake, Kanye West, Jay Z, Nicki Minaj, Snoop dogg, Busta rhythms, Kendrick Lamar, Chance the rapper.

On the country side, people listen to acoustic and country music. People normally listen to Blake Shelton, Ted McGraw, Billie nelson, Keith urban, Eric church.

US has always had an audience for latino music but that has been increasing since 2016 and ever since songs like “Despacito and Mi Gente” came out they have picked the interest in latino music. Artists like Maluma, J Balvin, Bad Bunny, Daddy Yankee and Luis Fonsi, DJ Snake have been trending a lot in the US.

Ever since 2015, there has been this strong rise in the kpop listeners in USA. People have started listening to kpop more and more. Sure, before 2015 there were kpop bands that were very hit and heard in US like EXO, BIGBANG, GIRLS GENERATION etc. but since 2015 BTS has taken US like a storm. Number of BTS fans in US have been increasing exponentially. In 2017, they released “DNA” which was so popular in US that it stayed #1 on iTunes for a month and recently the album that they released “BTS: Map of the soul 7”, it is in top 5 on iTunes for 3 weeks. BTS not just introduced US to their music but to the kpop in general because of which now there’s a huge audience for kpop in US.