Top Ten Music Genres That Teens Like

i only want people ages 12-21 voting on here please!
The Top Ten
1 Rock Rock music is a music genre that was created in the 1940s. The genre was popular during the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s. Rock bands generally consists of a guitar player, a drummer, bass player and singer. There are many rock subgenres - such as heavy metal, alternative, hard rock, grunge, and more. Notable rock bands and music artists include The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen, Van Halen, Foo Fighters,... read more

Actually I'm one of about 20 kids in my highschool of 3000 that listens to rock. I personally love classic rock the most. I started around 6th grade when I fell in love with rock music. Although I can't seem to listen to the newer rock or metal/screamo. It just doesn't feel like music. Rock teaches you to appreciate all music but everybody still has those few genres that just aren't for them. To be honest I listen to classic rock, jazz, blues, country, Rap, and R&B the most. Most kids gladly accept my music choice and unlike some of the other appreciators of rock I am the only one that is a actually seen as popular. My favorite band is creedence clearwater revival.

Now, don't get me wrong, I listen to various kinds of music. You'll find Rock, Pop, EDM, and Hip Hop happily coexisting on my MP3 player. But rock is like popular music's home base. Everyone, evens those who aren't rock fans, know at least one rock song. Many of the great mass appeal artists are rock based, such as Queen. And a majority of the other genres no doubt have their origins in some form of rock. Plus, it's flexible. So many sub genres of rock exists, as well as fusion genres to suit any mood. While, like I said before, I listen to many types of music, my early years were heavily shaped by my parents musical interests. David Bowie in particular is like home to me (and he's a great example of a rock crossover artist).

2 Metal

Metal is my favorite genre, and I'm a 15 year old girl. From Children of Bodom, to Slayer, to Iron Maiden, Cannibal Corpse, etc...it's literally the greatest thing I've ever been introduced to. But seeing it as number two on the list of "music genres teens listen to" is really shocking. I have many friends from many different schools and no one is into metal. You only get kids listening to emo crap. That's not even metal. Metal is something that more teens should get into, of course, but almost EVERYONE I know thinks it's satanic and not real music. Good to see that some people in this world, voting for it on this list, know music when they hear it. And congrats to rock for making it to number one.

While it may have crazy artists, sometimes bordering evil, metal is often the fastest and the most intense of all the genres as well as the more mellower ones, which are still epic. This takes the most skill and sometimes the most creativity, and the only thing that matches metal is rock. It can go from your shredder bands to your metal/symphony bands and if the band isn't screamo, and god forbid I hope it's not screamo, then they tend to amaze. I don't see the appeal in pop which tends to be focused toward the singer, and I don't see the appeal in rap or hiphop which is centered toward a repetitive beat and continuously droning, ahem, singers.

3 Pop

You guys can think what ever you want but for me as a guitar player... real music e played by instruments and alive to be considered music...
But fot the last time this pop electronic dj music with autotune only played on the radio, they are not even doing "live shows" becouse they suck.. but hey. that's only my opinion
People ate so stupid and lazy these days, can't appreciate what is done with real work and sweat
well hope this will change one day, and I should have born around 80's/90's to see and hear the real music!

Today, teens don't like rock music at all. It was very sad, but I am the only one left in my whole entire school y
That even knows Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd. I am proud to love rock music of all kinds, but being a teen, I know that normal teens like pop, not rock or metal. There are a few of us left, but we are very scarce.

BEST. GENRE. EVER.
It sounds so melodious and beautiful in my ears. It flows so nicely. People who complain about it may have not heard it's true beauty, or are simply blinded by it's bad lyrics. The lyrics may be bad, but it's the backbone (background music), that keeps it together in one nice piece.
Hate if you choose, but pop music is the best for me.

4 Rap

Kanye is a rich spoiled mamas boy. He could hardly function when his mama was gone. Most of the other rappers are creep loosers too. They have no real musical talent, so they talk you to death with real musicians providing musical background for peanuts, while the rappers spend tons of money on dope, sex, and other stupid and meaningless things that don't make this world any better.
When I saw that Paul McCartney teamed with Kanye, I totally lost respect for Paul. Kanye is a spoiled mamas boy creep with no real talent.

Rap is not real music. It's just an artform born out of the prison/ghetto culture for the musically challenged. Gangster rap is just garbage trying to help flush the world down the toilet faster. Be intelligent and cultured, don't support rap, hip hop, or other crap. Don't support anything that is violent or abusive. Instead, be a free thinking leader and lead the world to a better place.

5 Teen Pop

This should be higher on the list. So many teen girls are obsessed with Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Dove Cameron, Shawn Mendez, Taylor Swift, etc. Literally every idiot teen girl is obsessed with this genre along with mainstream rap and hip hop. I am a classical music fan. I even am playing the violin.

6 Alternative Alternative rock is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. In this instance, the word "alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream rock music.

Honestly, Alternative music should be number one on all of the music. It should be number one on the charts because of its creativity and originality. Another reason I favor Alternative music is because it's sneaky. By sneaky I mean that it is commonly mistaken for other genres, such as metal, scream, country, rock, pop, jazz, etc. My examples: Mumford and Sons is typically mistaken for country music, the band Fun. For Pop, and Linkin Park for Rock. Not only is it creative, original, and sneaky genre, but it has variety. Tons and tons of variety. All the artists and bands who selected the genre Alternative deserve a round of applause. From back in the day Red Hot Chili Peppers and Sublime to 2013's Lana Del Rey and Imagine Dragons will always rank and be number one.

Alternative music for the win! My favorites are Imagine Dragons, Fall Out Boy, Twenty One Pilots, Green Day, Panic! At the Disco... you get the picture. Alternative is different from most other genres because they have thoughtful lyrics that are far from shallow. They are obscure and beautiful and every song by every band has a completely different story and feel. I think alternative should definitely be number one.

7 Electronic Dance Music

Of course, the term EDM is ambiguous. If you're referring to EDM as mainstream EDM, then I happen to dislike the songs from the mainstream simply because they lack originality. However, if you're referring EDM as the umbrella genre for house, dubstep, trance, and much more, then I'm all for it. There is plenty of great electronic music that break the unfortunately overused stereotypes.

This is definitely the most popular genre between me and the rest of my friend group. Most teenagers where I live listen to EDM more than pop music. Also, house music and EDM is also topping the charts and getting huge air play and now EDM artists are collaborating with pop artists. This genre just seems to keep getting bigger and bigger.

EDM is spreading like wildfire. Go to Europe or any college campus in the US and you will find EDM is the genre of choice. In ten years, this will easily compete with rock and country as America's favorite music genre. If you aren't sure what EDM is, go search for the Ultra Music Festival on the web or YouTube. If it's one thing, EDM concerts are the BEST concerts to go to.

8 Pop Rock Pop rock is a form of rock music where it emphasises more on recording craft and songwriting than the attitude. Commonly known as an alternative to rock and roll.

I like pop rock

Pop Rock is good

9 Hip Hop

Man, there are too many metal fans on this sight. These days metal hardly prospers in the Industry (which in truth is a sad thing). HIP HOP, though it is still in early stages, has become a sort of new ROCK because ROCK at its time was a voice against the world and something totally unique. Now rock is a LEGENDARY genre but teens want something that is NEW and REBELLIOUS. It's the same thing as saying that the Beatles came, got attention and are now legends... In the same way guys like Eminem have come and to get attention and become LEGENDS.

Hip Hop is so underrated nowadays. And I'm not talking about that $%@^ like Nicki Minaj and Rae Sremmurd or any of these. I'm talking about the classic Hip Hop artists like 2pac, Biggie, Eminem, Dre, Snoop, NWA, Wu-Tang. That's the classic Hip Hop.
People are just saying that "wow, no message at all, it's just about being gangsta bla bla". NO! It's about life, there are many underrated songs that are about love, or street life, or depression, and so on, not only being a gangsta.
People are also saying that "it's not music, it's just random words that you can tell on a beat and BOOM, HIP HOP! ". Again, wrong! If Hip Hop is not music, then it's sure poetry, because the verses and the beats are all magical, and they're definitely more complex and more impressive than Metal's. Metal has pop verses with message on electric guitars and drums. That's all. Rap is about metaphors, wordplays and smart verses with message.
Also the Rap/Hip-Hop community is really united and we are helping each other. Plus that we have the same opinions.
Yes, we have a vulgar message, but that's how we communicate, I don't understand why is it a problem to swear if everyone knows how to swear and does it all the time. Why would it be a problem in music? Hope I clarified some things, and hope that more people will vote for Hip Hop/Rap!

10 Emo Emo is a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace.

My Chemical Romance is only good when they're making Death Metal. Emo is just some sad sack like Screamo.

I don't actually think many teens listen to real emo. They listen to Emo-Pop not Emo.

If you liked My Chemical Romance, you should check out Gerard's solo album, Hesitant Alien (no shows, and action car are my favorites)

The Contenders
11 Pop Punk

Pop punk, punk and skate punk is the same. Blink 182 is the best band ever but guys in my school don't know who the hell blink 182 is, which sucks. They don't even try to listen but just consider it bad because it's not popular. Pop is popular nowadays, everyone listen to it because it's just popular. But I have listened to almost every genre and I like metal, rock all those sort of genres.

Pop without a little complex formations sucks! Sometimes, people ask: "Who the hell Green Day & Blink 182 are? " Stupid people are never gonna recognize legends, the godfathers of Pop-Punk...

POP PUNK for the win! No one at my school even knows who Green Day/Blink 182 are and that pisses me off.
I also love the older fall out boy, they really helped me pull my life together.

12 Thrash Metal Thrash Metal is a Heavy Metal subgenre developed during the early 1980s and an early precursor of Extreme Metal. Thrash Metal features a faster and more aggressive guitar work than Traditional Metal with shredding and double-bass drums and can range from melodic singing to loud shouts.

The English band, Venom is credited for laying the groundwork for Thrash Metal with their debut album "Welcome... read more

It's a shame thrash metal isn't listened to by many teens. It was big in the 80s and even the 90s, but today? Nuh-uh. Almost none. In my whole school there may be 5, if that, metal fans through out the school. But it's all BOYS! I'm the only girl in my school who listens to thrash. In fact all of the"popular" girls think I'm a satanist because I like metal

Thrash metal is just another form of violence. Violence is what's wrong with this world. Try joining the military and kill a bunch of people. Then, see if you still like thrash metal, or any other kind of garbage sounds.

Thrash Metal is amazing. The songs are fast paced and creative. In my opinion pop, hip-hop and rap is garbage. Thrash Metal is just pure creativity and skill. My friend introduced me to Thrash metal and I'm so glad he did

13 Trap
14 Kpop

Kpop is the best type of music for. I'm 12 and I'm turning 13 this month. My parents say that when I listen to kpop they see that I get so happy. Kpop to me has a different feeling than any other type of music! Instead of it being this far down on the list, I think it should be at least 10 or maybe you know 5 or 4. I don't know many people my age who like kpop like I do. I love it! Everyone likes Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez and all that other crap. (I'm not saying their bad... It's just there not as good as kpop. Get it? ) I think that's enough now. Bye Chu~

Even with the language barrier for some fans, the song reaches out to you, not by lyrics but by the melody and the tone of all of the artists' voices and you can literally hear the emotion in their voices.

I really like kpop I feel like its different from other music types but when you tell people you like this type of music they think your a weird person for liking that.

15 Screamo

Okay I love emo/ screamo bands and the music style. And to the anonymous person who said and I quote " look at me guys I'm so edgy"
We don't listen to this music because we think it makes us seem edgy. ( I mean true I'm a CreepyPasta fan( the good kind not the kind that are attracted to them) but I still don't listen to it because I think it makes me seem edgy or insane. I listen to it because the genre has helped me through a lot in my life ) Just because you're anonymous doesn't give you the right to make fun of a genre and the people that listen to it

Screamo is like a good drug.. When you listen it, you feel you can face the problems you have and continue fight with the life and those who say that screamo is an emo genre are generally idiots cuzz if screamo was emo it wouldn. T help you get through life and smile at the problems. After all, I know 50 years oldmans that are listening to screamo!

16 Street Punk
17 R&B

This is at number 12? I'm 14 and I listen to all 90s R&B, and I'm not alone. Loads of people my age listen to 90s and early 00s R&B like JT, Destinys Child, TLC, Diddy and Blackstreet

I love R&B. It relaxes my soul.

18 Skate Punk
19 Grunge Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the mid-1980s.

Rock Music is the best. Though if I had to choose a sub-genre I'd undoubtably choose Grunge. People say 'grunge is dead' all the time and move to stupid pop music. Grunge isn't dead. Grunge will never die. Don't give up on Rock'n'Roll (especially grunge :P)

Bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, STP etc. Are undoubtably some of the greatest bands around and there masterpieces will never be forgotten...R.I.P. kurt Cobain & Layne Staley

Grunge is easily my favourite genre of music, and way better then dubstep (which I don't actually consider music). And this is coming from a teen.

20 Dubstep

This genre is limitless leaving the artists to really lash out and show the world how creative and how insane they are. The problem is that most people don't understand it and they really don't want to. Also the fact that for more people the only dubstep in the world is made by Skrillex sickens me and makes them forever unable to understand this amazing genre.

A lot of people don't accept this genre of music yet because it is so different from everything else. But that's what they said about heavy rock 50 years ago, so I think with time dubstep will grow in popularity. Also, there are many cool styles, such as chill step, which is more relaxing and quiet, and more heavy brostep.

People say it's just noise and requires no skill. When really it requires just as much skill as others. And it annoys me that people only mention skrillex. He's not the only one. I LOVE DUBSTEP. It's the best music ever. My opinion so back off

21 Progressive Rock Progressive rock is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

Progressive rock is the art of making the listener musically orgasm as many times as possible in a song of 10-25 mins. Progressive rock is made by musicians who make music come to life. They are not afraid of making songs too long for the radio. They are also not afraid of breaking musical boundaries. It might be an acquired taste, but once you into it, it'll stay with you forever. Nothing compares to progressive rock in terms of beauty, epicness, lyrical and musical depth, experimentation and emotions.

I actually don't know any teens besides people on this site that listen to Progressive Rock. It's a good genre, and has lots of complexity and long instrumentals into it. Just listen to Pink Floyd, Genesis, or King Crimson, and you will want this to be much higher than it is.

Progressive rock should be on this list, the genre is known for mixing in genres like jazz and classical into rock. The songs are often longer, Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Magma, and King Crimson are some examples.

22 Indie
23 Country

I'm Filipino, and live in Hong Kong, so why is more than half of what I listen to country? Well, my taste was probably somewhat influenced by rock and alternative (from my dad), and one of my family's helpers was a pop music freak, and started showing me all these pop songs. Maybe it's just me, but I think modern country music is somewhere in between pop and rock. Maybe it was also because I was introduced to Taylor Swift (who unfortunately went pop in 2014), and I like how the genre tends to use real instruments (instead of a synthesizer and a drum machine like much of the pop/Kpop stuff my classmates listen to), but I dunno, I just somehow learned to like the genre. I also like pop-rock, as in, the stuff from the 2000s (today's pop-rock is just too synthesized and experimental for my tastes).

Country music is the best genres of music ever! There are so many amazing country singers out there. Johnny Cash, George Strait, Alan Jackson and Easton Corbin, and new people like Carrie Underwood and Josh Turner - they are all wonderful! And they have real talent.

24 Electronica

Best music to relax

25 Classical

Classical music is the most underrated kind of music in the youths' world.

Most teenagers don't seem to understand the meaning of classical music. They think it's boring and complex for there's nothing to indicate what the composition is about except for the title, which sometimes also represent far too little information on what the piece is about.

But that is the beauty of it. Each person after listening to a classical piece will form their own opinions and thoughts about the music. Such of an example is whenever I listen to Moonlight Sonata 1st movement, my mood reaches sky high.

Another problem is that the kids that like classical music are regarded by their peers as trying to sound cool or being boring. How I hate those mindless idiots. They should learn to respect others.

I hope whoever reads this will give a vote for classical genre.

I'm 18. I'm heavy into music, all kinds, but classical works of great beauty and meaning are number one with me. After listening to everything, I've come to agree with the late Maestro Andres Segovia, that "the only real music, is beautiful music". I have come to feel that most of the other genres are mostly crap created from other crap from the past. Rap has been popular, but is not real music. It's just an artform that came out of prison culture / ghetto poverty and the lack of being able to actually sing. Kanye West says it's the rock of the future, but I think rap is dying, simply because more teens are smarter and more sensitive to real, great music these days. But, as always, crap minds will listen to... Crap. no matter what time in space. Not rocket science. The most intelligent and awesome people I know are into like Ralph Vaughn Williams, JS Bach, Debussy, and similar profound works of real music. The only other genre I have respect for is someone truly unique.. Like Burt Bacharach of the 60's. Most of his music has great meaning and eternal. When I listen to some rap, screamo, or whatever with foul language and violence embedded, I just sense a disturbance in the force.

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