2000s in Music - Gangsta Rap, New Wave Music, NU Metal, Emo, Indie Rock, Synthpop, 2005 in Music, List of Number-One Singles from the 2 (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 125. Chapters: 2000s in electro pop music, 2000s in jazz, Auto-Tune, Boogie (genre), Chinese heavy metal, Chinese rock, Crunkcore, Dance-pop, Emo, Eurodance, Gangsta rap, Indie rock, Irish hip hop, Israeli hip hop, Korean rock, List of 2000s one-hit wonders in the United States, List of best-selling albums of the 2000s (UK), List of best-selling singles of the 2000s (UK), List of best-selling singles of the 21st century (UK), Mike Ruocco, Music history of the United States in the 2000s, Music of the United Kingdom (2000s), New Wave music, New Wave of American Heavy Metal, Nu-disco, Nu metal, Pop punk, Post-Britpop, Post-disco, Post-grunge, Riot grrrl, Russian hip hop, Scottish hip-hop, Synthpop, Teen pop, Timeline of progressive rock (2000-2009), Wonky Pop. Excerpt: For music from a year in the 2000s, go to 00 - 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06 - 07 - 08 - 09 This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 2000s. The 2000s were for the most part, nondescript, with the earlier part of the decade retaining characteristics that dominated the 1990s, and styles from previous decades being revived later in the period. Unlike many past decades, the 2000s did not see the creation or emergence of many styles, with the exception of a few indie-related genres such as emo and electronic subgenres like Liquid funk and UK funky. Convergence of different styles was one of the more defining features of the decade, as seen with the creation and commercial success of the British grime genre and trap in the United States. Nevertheless, distinguishable elements can be attributed to the decade from a musical point of view, such as the common and mainstream usage of pitch correction software Auto-Tune, as well as the rise of the internet, media player programmes such as iTunes and music & video sharing websites such as YouTube. The popularity of teen pop carried over from the 1990s with acts such as *NSYNC, Britney Spears, and Christina Aguilera dominating the charts in the earlier years of the decade. R&B, which was very successful in the early years of the 2000s, saw a steep decline in popularity throughout the decade. This was in part due to the rise of hip hop and subgenres such as crunk and snap music, even though a fusion of these styles with R&B in crunk&B and snap&B saw success in the mid-to-late 2000s. Despite the hip hop dominance, particularly Southern hip hop which lasted for most of the decade (particularly the middle years), rock music was still popular, notably alternative rock, and especially genres such as post-grunge, post-Britpop, nu metal, pop punk, emo, post-hardcore, metalcore and indie rock; the decade also saw the garage rock and post punk revival. Despite a slight slip of popularity in the