Investigating Popular Music Genres.

Investigating popular music genres through analysis of Download Top 40.


http://www.theofficalcharts.com/singles-dowload-chart/

With the Top 5 consisting of;
Bruno Mars
Jessie J
Rihanna
Katy B ft Ms Dynamite
& David Guetta

It is clear that the dominant genre in popular music in 2011 are R&B and dance music. As none of the Top 5 are in the Pop, rock or metal genre.
Going further down the list it carries on with mostly the same genres. With the exeption of Adele who is mostly in the Pop/soul genre.
Number 6-10.
Adele
Black Eyes Peas
Far East Movement/Cataracs/Dev.
JLS
Matt Cardle

With the exception's of Matt Cardle and Adele being mostly in the Pop genre, these carry on with the R&B and Dance being the dominant genre. However, Matt Cardle and JLS show that Televison also has a big decision in people's music choices and what people listen too.

After investigating this, i have decided to interprate some Television refrences into my magazine, as it obviosly has a big influence on the music industry in 2011.