Music Artists

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# Classic Rock
"The Rolling Stones",
"Led Zeppelin",
"The Beatles",
"Pink Floyd",
"Queen",
"Aerosmith",
"AC/DC",
"The Who",
"Eagles",
"Fleetwood Mac",
# Indie Rock
"The Strokes",
"Arctic Monkeys",
"Vampire Weekend",
"Death Cab for Cutie",
"The Shins",
"Arcade Fire",
"Tame Impala",
"Alt-J",
"Modest Mouse",
"The White Stripes",
# Punk Rock
"The Ramones",
"Sex Pistols",
"The Clash",
"Dead Kennedys",
"Green Day",
"Black Flag",
"The Misfits",
"Rancid",
"The Offspring",
"Bad Religion",
# Alternative Rock
"Nirvana",
"Radiohead",
"Pearl Jam",
"Red Hot Chili Peppers",
"R.E.M.",
"Smashing Pumpkins",
"Foo Fighters",
"Muse",
"Oasis",
"Soundgarden",
# Progressive Rock
"Rush",
"Yes",
"Genesis",
"King Crimson",
"Emerson, Lake & Palmer",
"Jethro Tull",
"Dream Theater",
"Tool",
"Porcupine Tree",
"Pink Floyd",
# Synth Pop
"Depeche Mode",
"New Order",
"Erasure",
"Pet Shop Boys",
"Duran Duran",
"The Human League",
"Eurythmics",
"Kraftwerk",
"Yazoo",
"Gary Numan",
# Teen Pop
"Britney Spears",
"Backstreet Boys",
"NSYNC",
"Taylor Swift",
"Justin Bieber",
"Selena Gomez",
"Ariana Grande",
"Miley Cyrus",
"Jonas Brothers",
"Shawn Mendes",
# Dance Pop
"Madonna",
"Michael Jackson",
"Janet Jackson",
"Kylie Minogue",
"Rihanna",
"Lady Gaga",
"Katy Perry",
"Jennifer Lopez",
"Cher",
"Beyoncé",
# Indie Pop
"Belle and Sebastian",
"Sufjan Stevens",
"MGMT",
"Florence + The Machine",
"Bon Iver",
"Lorde",
"Lana Del Rey",
"Foster the People",
"Grizzly Bear",
"HAIM",
# Pop Rock
"Elton John",
"Billy Joel",
"Phil Collins",
"Bryan Adams",
"Rod Stewart",
"Bruce Springsteen",
"Maroon 5",
"Kelly Clarkson",
"John Mayer",
"Matchbox Twenty",
# Outlaw Country
"Johnny Cash",
"Waylon Jennings",
"Willie Nelson",
"Merle Haggard",
"Kris Kristofferson",
"David Allan Coe",
"Jessi Colter",
"Billy Joe Shaver",
"Steve Earle",
"Townes Van Zandt",
# Contemporary Country
"Garth Brooks",
"Shania Twain",
"Blake Shelton",
"Luke Bryan",
"Carrie Underwood",
"Kenny Chesney",
"Miranda Lambert",
"Tim McGraw",
"Keith Urban",
"Brad Paisley",
# Bluegrass
"Bill Monroe",
"Earl Scruggs",
"Ricky Skaggs",
"Alison Krauss",
"Del McCoury",
"Doc Watson",
"Flatt & Scruggs",
"Ralph Stanley",
"The Stanley Brothers",
"The Seldom Scene",
# Country Pop
"Taylor Swift",
"Dolly Parton",
"Glen Campbell",
"Faith Hill",
"John Denver",
"Olivia Newton-John",
"LeAnn Rimes",
"Crystal Gayle",
"Kenny Rogers",
"The Chicks",
# Country Rock
"The Eagles",
"Creedence Clearwater Revival",
"Lynyrd Skynyrd",
"The Allman Brothers Band",
"The Marshall Tucker Band",
"The Charlie Daniels Band",
"The Flying Burrito Brothers",
"Zac Brown Band",
"Steve Earle",
"Pure Prairie League",
# East Coast Hip Hop
"The Notorious B.I.G.",
"Jay-Z",
"Nas",
"Wu-Tang Clan",
"A Tribe Called Quest",
"Public Enemy",
"LL Cool J",
"Run-DMC",
"Big Daddy Kane",
"Rakim",
# West Coast Hip Hop
"Tupac Shakur",
"Dr. Dre",
"Ice Cube",
"Snoop Dogg",
"N.W.A.",
"Kendrick Lamar",
"The Game",
"Eazy-E",
"Cypress Hill",
"Too $hort",
# Trap
"Migos",
"Future",
"Gucci Mane",
"Young Thug",
"Travis Scott",
"21 Savage",
"Lil Uzi Vert",
"Cardi B",
"Chief Keef",
"T.I.",
# Conscious Hip Hop
"Kendrick Lamar",
"Common",
"Talib Kweli",
"Mos Def",
"Lupe Fiasco",
"Immortal Technique",
"KRS-One",
"Dead Prez",
"The Roots",
"Jurassic 5",
# Southern Hip Hop
"Outkast",
"Lil Wayne",
"UGK",
"Scarface",
"T.I.",
"Goodie Mob",
"Geto Boys",
"Three 6 Mafia",
"Juvenile",
"Big K.R.I.T.",
# Smooth Jazz
"Kenny G",
"Sade",
"George Benson",
"Grover Washington Jr.",
"Dave Koz",
"Bob James",
"David Sanborn",
"Norman Brown",
"Spyro Gyra",
"Fourplay",

# Bebop
"Charlie Parker",
"Dizzy Gillespie",
"Thelonious Monk",
"Bud Powell",
"Max Roach",
"Sonny Stitt",
"Clifford Brown",
"Kenny Clarke",
"Oscar Peterson",
"Art Blakey",

# Cool Jazz
"Miles Davis",
"Chet Baker",
"Bill Evans",
"Stan Getz",
"Dave Brubeck",
"Gerry Mulligan",
"Paul Desmond",
"Jim Hall",
"Lee Konitz",
"Modern Jazz Quartet",

# Jazz Fusion
"Miles Davis",
"Herbie Hancock",
"Chick Corea",
"Mahavishnu Orchestra",
"Weather Report",
"Return to Forever",
"Pat Metheny",
"Stanley Clarke",
"John McLaughlin",
"Al Di Meola",

# Vocal Jazz
"Ella Fitzgerald",
"Frank Sinatra",
"Billie Holiday",
"Nat King Cole",
"Louis Armstrong",
"Sarah Vaughan",
"Tony Bennett",
"Diana Krall",
"Michael Buble",
"Peggy Lee",

# Delta Blues
"Robert Johnson",
"Son House",
"Charley Patton",
"Skip James",
"Tommy Johnson",
"Mississippi Fred McDowell",
"Big Joe Williams",
"Booker White",
"Robert Lockwood Jr.",
"Willie Brown",

# Chicago Blues
"Muddy Waters",
"Howlin' Wolf",
"Willie Dixon",
"Little Walter",
"Buddy Guy",
"Bo Diddley",
"Elmore James",
"John Lee Hooker",
"Otis Rush",
"Magic Sam",

# Electric Blues
"B.B. King",
"Albert King",
"Freddie King",
"Stevie Ray Vaughan",
"Eric Clapton",
"T-Bone Walker",
"John Mayall",
"Johnny Winter",
"Paul Butterfield",
"Mike Bloomfield",

# Blues Rock
"Jimi Hendrix",
"Stevie Ray Vaughan",
"Eric Clapton",
"The Allman Brothers Band",
"Led Zeppelin",
"ZZ Top",
"Joe Bonamassa",
"Gary Moore",
"George Thorogood",
"Ten Years After",

# Country Blues
"Blind Lemon Jefferson",
"Mississippi John Hurt",
"Lead Belly",
"Lightnin' Hopkins",
"Sonny Terry",
"Big Bill Broonzy",
"Blind Willie McTell",
"Mississippi Fred McDowell",
"Blind Blake",
"Reverend Gary Davis",

# House
"Frankie Knuckles",
"Larry Levan",
"Carl Cox",
"Paul Oakenfold",
"Armand Van Helden",
"Daft Punk",
"Danny Tenaglia",
"Sasha & Digweed",
"David Morales",
"Todd Terry",

# Techno
"Juan Atkins",
"Derrick May",
"Jeff Mills",
"Carl Craig",
"Richie Hawtin",
"Sven Vath",
"Adam Beyer",
"Underworld",
"Laurent Garnier",
"Moby",

# Trance
"Paul van Dyk",
"Tiesto",
"Armin Van Buuren",
"Ferry Corsten",
"Above & Beyond",
"Sasha",
"ATB",
"Dash Berlin",
"Markus Schulz",
"Aly & Fila",

# EDM
"Calvin Harris",
"Avicii",
"Martin Garrix",
"Skrillex",
"Zedd",
"The Chainsmokers",
"David Guetta",
"Diplo",
"Alesso",
"Steve Aoki",

# Dubstep
"Skrillex",
"Burial",
"Rusko",
"Excision",
"Zomboy",
"Benga",
"Caspa",
"Mala",
"Mt Eden",
"Flux Pavilion",

# Classic Soul
"Aretha Franklin",
"Marvin Gaye",
"Stevie Wonder",
"Otis Redding",
"James Brown",
"Sam Cooke",
"Ray Charles",
"Curtis Mayfield",
"Al Green",
"Etta James",

# Contemporary R&B
"Beyoncé",
"Rihanna",
"Chris Brown",
"Usher",
"Ne-Yo",
"Mariah Carey",
"Alicia Keys",
"Justin Timberlake",
"Trey Songz",
"The Weeknd",

# Neo Soul
"D'Angelo",
"Erykah Badu",
"Jill Scott",
"Lauryn Hill",
"India.Arie",
"Maxwell",
"Musiq Soulchild",
"Anthony Hamilton",
"Corinne Bailey Rae",
"Angie Stone",

# Funk
"James Brown",
"Parliament-Funkadelic",
"Sly & the Family Stone",
"Kool & the Gang",
"Prince",
"Earth, Wind & Fire",
"George Clinton",
"Bootsy Collins",
"The Meters",
"Rick James",

# Motown
"The Supremes",
"Stevie Wonder",
"Marvin Gaye",
"The Temptations",
"Four Tops",
"Smokey Robinson",
"The Jackson 5",
"Gladys Knight & the Pips",
"Diana Ross",
"Lionel Richie",

# Heavy Metal
"Black Sabbath",
"Iron Maiden",
"Metallica",
"Judas Priest",
"Slayer",
"Megadeth",
"Motorhead",
"Pantera",
"Ozzy Osbourne",
"Deep Purple",

# Thrash Metal
"Metallica",
"Slayer",
"Anthrax",
"Megadeth",
"Exodus",
"Overkill",
"Testament",
"Kreator",
"Sodom",
"Sepultura",

# Death Metal
"Death",
"Morbid Angel",
"Cannibal Corpse",
"Obituary",
"Deicide",
"Entombed",
"Opeth",
"Autopsy",
"Dismember",
"Immolation",

# Black Metal
"Mayhem",
"Darkthrone",
"Burzum",
"Emperor",
"Bathory",
"Venom",
"Immortal",
"Gorgoroth",
"Enslaved",
"Marduk",

# Progressive Metal
"Dream Theater",
"Opeth",
"Tool",
"Queensrÿche",
"Mastodon",
"Fates Warning",
"Symphony X",
"Meshuggah",
"Gojira",
"Between the Buried and Me",

# Dancehall
"Shabba Ranks",
"Vybz Kartel",
"Sean Paul",
"Bounty Killer",
"Beenie Man",
"Buju Banton",
"Lady Saw",
"Yellowman",
"Elephant Man",
"Popcaan",

# Roots Reggae
"Bob Marley & The Wailers",
"Burning Spear",
"Peter Tosh",
"Black Uhuru",
"Steel Pulse",
"Israel Vibration",
"Culture",
"Bunny Wailer",
"Gregory Isaacs",
"Dennis Brown",

# Dub
"Lee 'Scratch' Perry",
"King Tubby",
"Augustus Pablo",
"The Scientist",
"Mad Professor",
"Prince Far I",
"Adrian Sherwood",
"Bunny Lee",
"Keith Hudson",
"Iration Steppas",

# Reggae Fusion
"Sean Paul",
"Shaggy",
"UB40",
"Maxi Priest",
"Inner Circle",
"Magic!",
"Collie Buddz",
"Diana King",
"J Boog",
"Snow",

# Rocksteady
"The Skatalites",
"Alton Ellis",
"Desmond Dekker",
"Toots and the Maytals",
"Ken Boothe",
"The Paragons",
"Derrick Morgan",
"John Holt",
"The Heptones",
"Delroy Wilson",
# Grunge
"Nirvana",
"Pearl Jam",
"Soundgarden",
"Alice In Chains",
"Stone Temple Pilots",

# New Wave
"Talking Heads",
"Blondie",
"The Police",
"Elvis Costello",
"Devo",

# Psychedelic Rock
"The Jimi Hendrix Experience",
"The Doors",
"Grateful Dead",
"Jefferson Airplane",
"13th Floor Elevators",

# Folk Rock
"Bob Dylan",
"The Byrds",
"Simon & Garfunkel",
"Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young",
"The Band",

# Shoegaze
"My Bloody Valentine",
"Slowdive",
"Ride",
"Cocteau Twins",
"Swervedriver",

# Glam Rock
"David Bowie",
"T. Rex",
"Roxy Music",
"Alice Cooper",
"Slade",

# Post-Hardcore
"Fugazi",
"At the Drive-In",
"Glassjaw",
"Thrice",
"Underoath",

# Post-Punk
"Joy Division",
"The Cure",
"Siouxsie and the Banshees",
"The Fall",
"Wire",

# Noise Rock
"Sonic Youth",
"Big Black",
"The Jesus Lizard",
"Swans",
"Lightning Bolt",

# Math Rock
"Don Caballero",
"Hella",
"Slint",
"Battles",
"Tera Melos",

# YouTubers
"Bo Burnham",
"Rhett and Link",
"Miranda Sings",
"Bill Wurtz",
"Jonathan Young",



# My List
"Freezepop",
"Man Man",
"Home",
"Nobuo Uematsu",
"Koji Kondo",
"Yoko Shimomura",
"Yasunori Mitsuda",

# Krautrock
"Can",
"Kraftwerk",
"Neu!",
"Faust",
"Tangerine Dream",

# No Wave
"Sonic Youth",
"Lydia Lunch",
"James Chance and The Contortions",
"Swans",
"DNA",

# Skweee
"Dodó",
"Daniel Savio",
"Beem",
"Eero Johannes",
"Limonious",

# Lowercase
"Steve Roden",
"Bernhard Günter",
"Toshimaru Nakamura",
"Richard Chartier",
"Roel Meelkop",

# Vaporwave
"Macintosh Plus",
"Saint Pepsi",
"Blank Banshee",
"James Ferraro",
"Oneohtrix Point Never",

# Witch House
"Crystal Castles",
"Salem",
"oOoOO",
"White Ring",
"Purity Ring",

# Glitch
"Aphex Twin",
"Squarepusher",
"Autechre",
"Oval",
"Pan Sonic",

# IDM (Intelligent Dance Music)
"Aphex Twin",
"Autechre",
"Boards of Canada",
"Squarepusher",
"Venetian Snares",

# Future Bass
"Flume",
"San Holo",
"Wave Racer",
"Mura Masa",
"Lido",

# Chillwave
"Neon Indian",
"Washed Out",
"Toro y Moi",
"Memory Tapes",
"Small Black",

# New Rave
"Klaxons",
"New Young Pony Club",
"Shitdisco",
"Late of the Pier",
"Does It Offend You, Yeah?",

# Power Electronics
"Whitehouse",
"Merzbow",
"Prurient",
"Ramleh",
"Sutcliffe Jügend",

# Blackgaze
"Alcest",
"Deafheaven",
"Wolves in the Throne Room",
"Lantlôs",
"Les Discrets",

# Microhouse
"Pantytec",
"Akufen",
"Ricardo Villalobos",
"Luomo",
"Farben",

# Dark Cabaret
"The Dresden Dolls",
"Tom Waits",
"Amanda Palmer",
"Tiger Lillies",
"Katzenjammer",

# Dark Ambient
"Lustmord",
"Coil",
"Atrium Carceri",
"Desiderii Marginis",
"Kammarheit",

# Nintendocore
"Horse the Band",
"Anamanaguchi",
"Crystal Castles",
"Minibosses",
"The Advantage",

# Electro-Swing
"Parov Stelar",
"Caravan Palace",
"Jamie Berry",
"Swingrowers",
"11 Acorn Lane",

# Seapunk
"Blank Banshee",
"Zombelle",
"Ultrademon",
"Unicorn Kid",
"Slime Girls",

# J-Pop
"Hikaru Utada",
"Namie Amuro",
"Perfume",
"Kyary Pamyu Pamyu",
"Arashi",

# K-Pop
"BTS",
"BLACKPINK",
"EXO",
"TWICE",
"Big Bang",

# Crunkcore
"Brokencyde",
"3OH!3",
"Blood on the Dance Floor",
"Millionaires",
"Family Force 5",

# 1950
"Muddy Waters",

# 1951
"Little Richard",

# 1952
"Big Mama Thornton",

# 1953
"Hank Williams",

# 1954
"Bill Haley & His Comets",

# 1955
"Chuck Berry",

# 1956
"Bo Diddley",

# 1957
"Buddy Holly & The Crickets",

# 1958
"Eddie Cochran",

# 1959
"The Isley Brothers",

# 1960
"Roy Orbison",
"The Everly Brothers",

# 1961
"The Shirelles",
"Ben E. King",

# 1962
"Booker T. & the MG's",
"The Crystals",

# 1963
"The Kingsmen",
"Sam Cooke",

# 1964
"The Kinks",
"The Zombies",

# 1965
"The Byrds",
"The Yardbirds",

# 1966
"The Mamas & The Papas",
"Buffalo Springfield",

# 1967
"Traffic",
"Vanilla Fudge",

# 1968
"Big Brother and the Holding Company",
"The Band",

# 1969
"The Stooges",
"MC5",

# 1970
"Emerson, Lake & Palmer",
"Black Sabbath",

# 1971
"Can",
"Yes",

# 1972
"Roxy Music",
"The Allman Brothers Band",

# 1973
"Iggy and The Stooges",
"New York Dolls",

# 1974
"King Crimson",
"Television",

# 1975
"Patti Smith Group",
"Kraftwerk",

# 1976
"Ramones",
"Sex Pistols",

# 1977
"The Clash",
"Wire",

# 1978
"Joy Division",
"The B-52's",

# 1979
"The Cure",
"The Fall",

# 1980
"Dead Kennedys",
"Echo & the Bunnymen",
"Suicide",

# 1981
"Soft Cell",
"New Order",
"Depeche Mode",

# 1982
"The Smiths",
"R.E.M.",
"The Jesus and Mary Chain",

# 1983
"Cocteau Twins",
"Talking Heads",
"Husker Du",

# 1984
"The Replacements",
"Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds",
"Minutemen",

# 1985
"The Cult",
"Skinny Puppy",
"Dinosaur Jr.",

# 1986
"Big Black",
"Slayer",
"Sonic Youth",

# 1987
"Jane's Addiction",
"Public Enemy",
"Death",

# 1988
"My Bloody Valentine",
"N.W.A",
"Morbid Angel",

# 1989
"Nine Inch Nails",
"Beastie Boys",
"Fugazi",

# 1990
"Ride",
"Pantera",
"Primus",

# 1991
"Nirvana",
"Pearl Jam",
"Soundgarden",

# 1992
"Rage Against The Machine",
"Kyuss",
"Stone Temple Pilots",

# 1993
"Smashing Pumpkins",
"Tool",
"Wu-Tang Clan",

# 1994
"Weezer",
"Green Day",
"Portishead"
# 1995
"Oasis",
"Bjork",
"Radiohead",

# 1996
"Belle and Sebastian",
"Neutral Milk Hotel",
"DJ Shadow",

# 1997
"Godspeed You! Black Emperor",
"Modest Mouse",
"Spiritualized",

# 1998
"Boards of Canada",
"Death Cab for Cutie",
"Queens of the Stone Age",

# 1999
"The Dillinger Escape Plan",
"Sigur Ros",
"The White Stripes",

# 2000
"Godspeed You! Black Emperor",
"The Strokes",
"At the Drive-In",

# 2001
"Interpol",
"The Shins",
"Explosions in the Sky",

# 2002
"Wilco",
"Broken Social Scene",
"The Mars Volta",

# 2003
"Muse",
"Yeah Yeah Yeahs",
"Sufjan Stevens",

# 2004
"Animal Collective",
"TV on the Radio",
"Death from Above 1979",

# 2005
"Arctic Monkeys",
"LCD Soundsystem",
"Clap Your Hands Say Yeah",
# 2006
"Band of Horses",
"Grizzly Bear",
"The Hold Steady",

# 2007
"Bon Iver",
"Fleet Foxes",
"M.I.A.",

# 2008
"Vampire Weekend",
"Foals",
"MGMT",

# 2009
"The xx",
"Japandroids",
"Fever Ray",

# 2010
"Tame Impala",
"Sleigh Bells",
"Beach House",

# 2011
"St. Vincent",
"James Blake",
"Kurt Vile",

# 2012
"Alt-J",
"Grimes",
"Alabama Shakes",

# 2013
"Chvrches",
"Haim",
"Disclosure",

# 2014
"Mac DeMarco",
"Royal Blood",
"Run the Jewels",

# 2015
"Father John Misty",
"Courtney Barnett",
"Kamasi Washington",

# 2016
"Car Seat Headrest",
"King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard",
"Frank Ocean",

# 2017
"Japanese Breakfast",
"Alvvays",
"Slowdive",

# 2018
"IDLES",
"Snail Mail",
"Parquet Courts",

# 2019
"Fontaines D.C.",
"Black Midi",
"Orville Peck",

# 2020
"Phoebe Bridgers",
"Yves Tumor",
"Rina Sawayama",

# 2021
"Arlo Parks",
"Squid",
"Olivia Rodrigo",

# 2022 (prediction)
"Anjimile",
"Black Country, New Road",
"The Linda Lindas",

# 2023 (prediction)
"Wet Leg",
"Yard Act",
"Pom Poko"

# 2024 (prediction)
"Greentea Peng",
"Genesis Owusu",
"Lucy Dacus",

# 2025 (prediction)
"Crumb",
"Bartees Strange",
"Remi Wolf",

# 2026 (prediction)
"Men I Trust",
"Deb Never",
"Sons of Kemet",

# 2027 (prediction)
"Helena Deland",
"Resavoir",
"Yola",

# 2028 (prediction)
"Madison Cunningham",
"Orion Sun",
"Black Pumas",