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Topic: Genre Distribution and You...
Posted By: Kingcrimsonprog
Subject: Genre Distribution and You...
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2012 at 11:51am
Ok, so in whatever electronic medium you consider to be your main one, (eg. iTunes, Windows Media, Zen, whatever) what all genres names have you got listed and in each, how many artists are there ?


Eg. For Me:


Classic Rock � 17 bands
Classic Rock (Modern) � 9 Bands
Electronic � 7 bands
Metal -  31 Bands
Metal (Extreme) -  19 Bands
Metal (Industial) � 4 Bands
Metal (Nu Metal) � 21 Bands    
Metal (NWOAHM/Metalcore) � 17 Bands
Metal (Post Metal) � 10 Bands
Metal (Prog) � 14 Bands
Metal (Stoner) � 17 Bands
Metal (Thrash) -  26 Bands
Other � 3 Bands
Progressive Rock -  20 Bands
Rock � 22 Bands
Rock (Alternative) � 14 Bands
Rock (Grunge) � 3 Bands
Rock (Indie) � 9 Bands



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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2012 at 12:24pm
Alternative - 673 artists
Ambient - 5 artists
AOR - 9 artists
Blues - 30 artists
Canterbury - 27 artists
Classical - 62 artists
Crossover Prog - 184 artists
Death Metal - 12 artists
Doom Metal - 7 artists
Eclectic Prog - 97 artists
Electronic - 102 artists
Folk - 49 artists
Grindcore - 8 artists
Heavy Prog - 84 artists
Industrial Metal - 6 artists
Jazz/Fusion - 257 artists
Krautrock - 8 artists
Metal - 467 artists (I've not broken these out into separate genres yet)
Metalcore - 4 artists
Neo Prog - 153 artists
New Age - 11 artists
Pop - 72 artists
Post Rock - 31 artists
Progressive Metal - 360 artists
Progressive Rock - 60 artists (I've not broken these out into separate genres yet)
Psychedelic/Space Rock - 69 Artists
Punk - 11 artists
R&B/Soul - 12 artists
Reggae - 18 artists
RIO/Avant Prog - 64 artists
Rock - 1173 artists (I've not broken these out into separate genres yet)
Sludge Metal - 5 artists
Symphonic Prog Rock - 321 artists
Zeuhl - 14 artists
 
 
 


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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2012 at 12:56pm
Too modern for me, I�ll pass as I don�t really know what we�re talking aboutLOL.

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Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2012 at 1:10pm
Genres in my iTunes library at the moment (not counting V/A releases):

A Capella Metal - 1 artist
Alternative Metal - 26 artists
Alternative Rock - 25 artists
Avant-garde Metal - 7 artists
Black Metal - 61 artists
Blues - 1 artist
Classical - 2 artists
Crossover - 17 artists
Death Metal - 69 artists
Doom Metal - 33 artists
Electronica - 10 artists
Folk - 6 artists
Folk Metal - 9 artists
Funk - 2 artists
Glam Metal - 5 artists
Gothic Metal - 14 artists
Gothic Rock - 2 artists
Grindcore - 5 artists
Groove Metal - 15 artists
Hard Rock - 61 artists
Heavy Metal - 80 artists
Industrial Metal - 6 artists
Jazz - 4 artists
Melodic Death Metal - 19 artists
Metalcore - 20 artists
New Wave of British Heavy Metal - 30 artists
Pop - 5 artists
Power Metal - 50 artists
Progressive Metal - 66 artists
Progressive Rock - 21 artists
Punk - 6 artists
RnB - 1 artist
Rap - 6 artists
Rock - 8 artists
Sludge Metal - 19 artists
Spoken Word - 2 artists
Symphonic Metal - 5 artists
Thrash Metal - 88 artists

I like to keep things relatively simple, so I am in the process of conflating a lot of genres - for instance the punk genre in my iTunes library covers punk rock, crust punk and hardcore punk, and death metal comprises brutal death metal, progressive death metal, death-grind etc.. I've kept certain subgenres distinct, because they are salient to me, such as melodic death metal, groove metal, and crossover. Also, the number of artists within a given genre does not reflect my musical preferences. For example, I enjoy progressive rock much more than black metal although I have more black metal artists in my library than progressive rock artists.


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Posted By: Wilytank
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2012 at 1:31pm
My iTunes library is shared with my brother's hip-hop/indie rock collection.  I can't give you accurate stats on my tastes from that.

I can take a screenshot of my up to date MMA rating stats though.




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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2012 at 1:53pm

I've tried to align most of my progressive music to agree with the classification on PA, and out of sake of ease and laziness I have used the every album/song approach like PA.  Thus Genesis is symphonic prog, whether it is the early stuff or the later pop stuff.  Eventually, I plan on doing the same thing with Metal, but for the most part I've just used the generic metal label.  The artists that have different metal labels were most likely labeled like that on a compilation and I didn't bother to change it.  I'd also like to breakup the rock label one of these days, but I haven't yet decided what labels would be appropriate.  AOR was pretty easy so I classified that separately.  I'm sure I'll probably use hard rock; maybe following the MMA category.  Maybe soft rock or adult rock, but I don't have too much there.  I suppose I could add classic rock, but I find that kind of difficult to use as a genre.  It is still somewhat generic, but might be better to differentiate from "Regular" rock.  One of these days when I am bored and looking for something to do.... 



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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2012 at 1:55pm
Most of my genres aren't sorted very accurately because I give 0 cares, but here we go according to itunes

Alternative - 20 albums
Alt-Metal - 6 albums
Ambient - 24 albums
Avant-Metal - 23 albums
Black Metal - 16 albums
Blues - 1 album
Canterbury Scene - 30 albums
Classical - 1 album
Crossover - 3 albums
Death metal - 28 albums
Doom Metal - 4 albums (only non-drone, non-stoner stuff :P)
Drone - 20 albums
Eclectic Prog - 45 albums
Electronica - 30 (which includes every non-ambient electronic artist I have)
Experimental - 6 albums
Folk - 67 albums
Folk-Metal - 23 albums
Heavy Metal - 16 albums (this is what "traditional metal" bands are labeled here)
Heavy Prog - 15 albums
Hip-Hop - 16 albums
Industrial/Noise - 2 albums
Jazz - 83 albums
Krautrock - 72 albums
Post-Punk - 17 albums
Post Metal - 62 albums
Post Rock - 25 albums
Power Metal - 3 albums (iirc I have Iced Earth tagged Thrash for some reason)
Prog Metal - 45 albums
Proto-Prog - 20 albums
Psychedelic Rock - 14 albums
RIO/Avant - 60 albums
Riot Jazz - 5 albums
Rock - 13 albums
Shred - 7 albums
Sludge Metal - 34 albums
Soundtrack - 16 albums
Space Rock - 45 albums
Symph Prog - 37 album
Thrash Metal - 40 albums
Vompatti - 5 albums
Zeuhl - 24 albums


Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2012 at 1:58pm
Vompatii is a genre all of his own.  Clap

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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2012 at 6:51pm
 I usually have my albums listed under their most basic genre (rock, metal, jazz, rap/hip-hop, electronic ...).  I haven't updated the genre tags, but here's what WMP has right now:

Alternative (6.5 hours)
Avant-Garde (37 minutes)
Black Metal (43 minutes)
Classical (44 minutes)
Comedy (20.9 hours)
Death Metal (2.3 hours)
Electronic (27 minutes)
Electronica (4.4 hours)
Folk (3 minutes)
Hard Rock (46 minutes)
Heavy Metal (54 minutes)
Jazz (112 hours)
Latin (36 minutes)
Metal (263 hours)
New Age (4 hours)
Other (4.8 hours)
Progressive Rock (50 minutes)
Punk (6.6 hours)
Rap (4 minutes)
Rap & Hip-Hop (6.8 hours)
Rock (196 hours)
Soul & RnB (96 minutes)
Unknown (10.9 hours)



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Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 2:12am
^Four minutes of Rap :-)

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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 1:37pm
Here's my last.fm tag cloud, as measured by:  http://lastfm.dontdrinkandroot.net/?3" rel="nofollow - http://lastfm.dontdrinkandroot.net/?3




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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 1:47pm
Hey, that's cool






Posted By: Kingcrimsonprog
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 2:50pm
Oh, cool.

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Posted By: LittleBig
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 3:58pm
hard rock - 13 artists
metal - 55 artists
progressive metal - 67 artists
progressive rock - 51 artists
pop/rock - 6 artists

approximate numbers of music I got in my lap top Smile (hope I counted right LOL)



Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 6:52pm
Originally posted by Pekka Pekka wrote:

Here's my last.fm tag cloud, as measured by:  http://lastfm.dontdrinkandroot.net/?3" rel="nofollow - http://lastfm.dontdrinkandroot.net/?3


OOH word collage!!!

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Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2012 at 10:02am
I'm in the process of sorting out my media library tags. I've been kinda lazy on tagging music in the past and just gone with whatever WMP came up with when I put the CD in the drive, which can sometimes produce laughable results, such as Saille being 'easy listening'. Anyway I'll post here once I have something accurate.

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Posted By: Wilytank
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2012 at 7:40am
I counted up the CDs I have and made this list:

black: 47
death: 29
traditional/NWOBHM: 18
thrash: 17
doom: 16
progressive: 10
sludge/post: 9
power: 7
folk: 5
metalcore: 4
avant-garde: 3
grind: 3
industrial: 1
other: 5


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Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2012 at 11:28am
Originally posted by adg211288 adg211288 wrote:

I'm in the process of sorting out my media library tags. I've been kinda lazy on tagging music in the past and just gone with whatever WMP came up with when I put the CD in the drive, which can sometimes produce laughable results, such as Saille being 'easy listening'. Anyway I'll post here once I have something accurate.


Or Napalm Death as blues...


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Posted By: DefinitionOfHatred
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2012 at 2:54pm


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Posted By: Pelata
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2012 at 12:59pm
Hair Metal - 11 Artists
Hard Rock - 26 Artists
Metal - 109 Artists
Prog - 10 Artists
Rock/Pop - 57 Artists


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Posted By: Kingcrimsonprog
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2012 at 3:29pm
Originally posted by Pelata Pelata wrote:

Hair Metal - 11 Artists
Hard Rock - 26 Artists
Metal - 109 Artists
Prog - 10 Artists
Rock/Pop - 57 Artists


Wow, that is streamlined to the bone.
I did that once, but my personality flaws made me make it complicated again after a while.


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Posted By: Pelata
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2012 at 3:53pm
Originally posted by Kingcrimsonprog Kingcrimsonprog wrote:

Originally posted by Pelata Pelata wrote:

Hair Metal - 11 Artists
Hard Rock - 26 Artists
Metal - 109 Artists
Prog - 10 Artists
Rock/Pop - 57 Artists


Wow, that is streamlined to the bone.
I did that once, but my personality flaws made me make it complicated again after a while.

I used to have it really splintered out...but it got confusing as to what to call some things...is AC/DC Heavy Metal or Hard Rock? Is King's X Hard Rock or Prog? Is Enchant Prog Metal or Prog Rock? Is Peter Gabriel Rock/Pop or Prog? Is Alice In Chains Metal or Hard Rock? AAAAHHHH!!!!! Haha!! Cool


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Posted By: IMPF2112
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2012 at 6:22pm
I have an Excel document in which I list all the bands and artists I like. I add alongside their name, their country and what single genre I feel best describes their music. So far, here are the current stats by genre:



Alternative Rock (7)
Art Pop (1)
Black Metal (35)
Death Metal (18)
Doom Metal (3)
Drone (3)
Contemporary Folk (3)
Electronic (1)
Experimental Rock (5)
Folk Metal (10)
Grindcore (2)
Hard Rock (7)
Heavy Metal (9)
Hip Hop (9)
Industrial Metal (1)
Minimalism (1)
Pop Rock (2)
Power Metal (19)
Progressive Metal (26)
Progressive Rock (31)
Psychedelic Rock (1)
Punk Rock (3)
Thrash Metal (15)


Overall, a total of 212 artists.



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