Everyday & school

Like a sun-faded old videotape, blurry, warm and a little wistful.

It doesn't demand your attention, yet quietly changes the colour of the whole room.

Gentle, calm, flowing instrumentals for breathing, meditation and healing.

Electronic music slowed down: warm grooves, jazzy chords and sea breeze, made for sunset.

Every pop element turned up to max: candy tones, pitched voices and glitch noise screaming together.

Internet rap made by teenagers who met on Discord, with Auto-Tune, high-pitched vocals and sharp 808s.

In a very short time, it makes viewers remember the characters, the world and the next encounter.

The song that rises softly as an episode ends: piano, strings and a gentle voice leaving the afterglow to you.

Group unison, sparkling arrangements and gaps left for the crowd's chants, songs written for cheering.

With no real singer present, a voice can still become a character people create together.

Turns excessive cuteness, repetition and strange logic into a channel of its own.

Future bass's soft chords plus bells, toy sounds and cute vocals, like a trampoline in candy clouds.

Speed a song up, raise its pitch, add an anime picture: an online remix culture that grew out of a Norwegian school project.

The sound of a guitar band with the melody of a pop song: singable choruses and moderate energy, the most common kind of band pop.

Three chords, two minutes, hurling anger and jokes at the wall together.

Fast, sweet and loud: three-chord punk with instantly singable pop choruses.

Offbeat guitar "chk-chk" plus horns, bouncy joy you dance with bent knees.

Teenage heartbreak written loud, sincere to the point of shouting your voice raw.

Punk energy with synth gloss: short, sharp and stylish; much of the 1980s sound starts here.

Cold drum machine, synths and a deep, flat male voice: sitting alone on the roof of a grey apartment block.

Rock off the mainstream path: more honest, rougher and more willing to experiment.

Quiet mumbling, then a sudden explosion; confusion sung dirty and loud.

Britain sung out loud: anthem choruses, guitar pop and working-class swagger.

No need to please everyone, just tell the truth to the people who care.

Clean tapped guitars, odd meters and precise stops, like solving a bright geometry problem.

Fast, intensely melodic and emotionally full, the sound behind countless anime openings.

Starting from small stages, personal songwriting and peer networks, it gives a city many sounds that aren't uniformly packaged.

Down-tuned grooves, rap and turntables brought metal to late-'90s streets and MTV.

Gives a community, a person and a way of life a place to speak on their own beat.

Heavy drum hits and lean loops give a verse solid ground to stand on.

Turns jazz timbres, harmony and memories of low end into a rhythmic space where the conversation can go on.

Sparse drums, thick 808s and melodies like a Nintendo game: soft, floaty SoundCloud trap.

Heartbreak and loneliness sung over trap beats, where rap meets emo rock feeling.

Treats the beat as a vessel for personal language, letting humour, whimsy, melody and different ways of telling enter rap.

Dialects, local pride and internet memes enter rap, from underground cyphers to variety-show stages.

Writes the tone, rhymes and personal stance of the Korean language into beats the body can hear.

In imperfect textures, it leaves a little liveable warmth for everyday life.

Silky vocals over spacious beats, magnifying the small feelings inside intimacy.

Synthesizers singing pop melodies, where futurism and heartbreak happen at once.

Modern pop led by synths: clean, cool-bright and a little futuristic.

Gentle, slightly bookish pop, like a spring afternoon in a small-town record shop.

Private love songs recorded with a laptop and cheap keyboard in a bedroom, soft and fuzzy.

Rich chords, frequent key changes and fast, dense lyrics: modern Japanese pop built on piano and band, with choruses that soar.

French pop, bossa nova and '60s soft rock cut and pasted into a stylish Tokyo sound.

Precise electronic production turns pop melody into a recognisable character and stage.

A hopping left hand and a playfully syncopated right: saloon piano from the early 1900s, jazz's grandparent.

Jazz, funk, soul and hip-hop samples dancing together in a London basement.

Cocktails, velvet sofas and piano trio, relaxed with a hint of retro space-age.

Samba's heartbeat turned down low, like someone whispering to you by the sea.

One acoustic guitar and one story, bringing song back to between people.

One guitar singing of cities, youth and faraway places, making ordinary days worth a song.

Fiddle, tin whistle and bodhrán, dancing jigs in a stone pub on a misty coast.

Pickup trucks, highways and small-town heartbreak, sung in the plainest melodies.

Country storytelling and acoustic guitar wrapped in pop hooks and shiny production.

Three-finger banjo rolls, mandolin and fiddle taking fast turns, joy on an Appalachian porch.

Accordion and guacharaca's two-step shuffle, the riverside town dance that's slow yet impossible to stop.

Guitar chops on the offbeat and a cheerful horn section: dance music faster than reggae and sweeter than punk.

A light stroke on the offbeat, giving both protest and love a sunny ease.

A few repeating piano figures and a layer of strings are enough to make quiet feel deep.

Songs written on old console sound chips: square, triangle and noise waves that take you straight back to childhood.

Lets a song say what a character can't do yet, and hasn't admitted yet, right now.

Optimistic, clean, unobtrusive background music written for launches, promos and tutorials.

Simple melodies, repeated lyrics and gentle tones: songs for children and for bedtime quiet.