Short video & beat sync

1920s–'40s swing horns and vocals plugged into modern house beats.

A steady four-on-the-floor keeps different people in the same room.

House swing with techno's tough kicks and bass: one of the most-played sounds in clubs today.

Kicks distorted into a punchy snap and epic melodies, written for tens of thousands to jump at once.

Russian hard bass: very fast bouncing bass, simple synths and chanted slogans, danced by tracksuited youths in a squat.

A bouncing triplet kick and chopped-up vocals: club music that jumped from Newark block parties to short-video feeds.

Skipping kicks at 160 BPM and chopped vocals: ultra-fast dance music made for Chicago footwork battles.

Bright synth chords swell in the drop like a colourful emotional firework.

Breakneck breakbeats shattered into shards, exploding alongside sad melodies and anime samples.

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.

Max out the hype in 89 seconds: fast guitars, a declarative chorus and a title you can shout.

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

Touhou Project themes rearranged into rock, metal, electronic and jazz; one game raised an entire doujin music scene.

Ultra-fast hardcore kicks, moe vocal samples and goofy effects, the frantic electronic music of Japan's doujin scene.

High-BPM electronic music designed for fingers and eyes: dense notes, sudden tempo shifts, the harder the better.

Tape hiss, eerie samples and slow, hazy rap: dark hip-hop grown from '90s Memphis underground rap.

Distorted cowbell melodies, blown-out 808s and relentless drive: the go-to soundtrack for drift edits and gym montages.

Brazilian funk's bouncing drums meet phonk's cowbell: hypnotic Portuguese vocal chops, dark yet danceable.

Chinese pop songs remixed into pounding slow-rock and car-stereo DJ edits, cheesy yet addictive.

Half-shouted, half-chanted bravado from livestream rooms: four syllables at a time, all swagger, so over-the-top it becomes addictive.

No record label and no packaging, spread through websites and ringtones to every street: Chinese viral songs of the 2000s.

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.

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

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

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

Metalcore breakdowns collide with EDM synths and drops, made for jumping on a rainy rooftop.

Heavy metal guitars and drums with sweet J-pop idol melodies and choreography: cute and violent, both turned up to the max.

Heavy low end slows time down while fine-grained rhythms keep speeding up between pressure and confidence.

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

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

Everything on the one, every instrument turned into a drum.

Four-on-the-floor and shimmering strings, inviting everyone to be the star of the same night.

Hip-hop swing beats plus R&B harmonies, the coolest street dance music of the late '80s.

Pop built for both the dance floor and the charts: big hooks, four-on-the-floor and shiny production.

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

Weaves melody, dance and vocal roles into a stage language the world can remember.

Guzheng, dizi and opera-style vocals meet electronic drums and drops: gufeng melodies sped up and bass-boosted into danceable C-style EDM.

Lanterns, paper charms and a night parade of spirits: guofeng melody telling tales of ghosts, karma and the human heart.

Songs sailors roared while hauling rope: a lead line, a group answer, stomping as the beat.

Street parties in Rio's hillside communities: bouncing drum-machine beats, a wall of speakers and an MC's chants.

One dembow rhythm, and the whole city sways together.

Traditional corrido guitars with trap attitude and a young voice: new Mexican music sweeping Latin America and the US.

Digital reggae: faster, more electronic, made for the dance floor, DJs toasting over riddims.

Light percussion and warm melodies turn a party into an easy, rolling groove.

Log-drum bass, jazzy piano and laid-back house groove, a sunset rooftop party in Johannesburg.

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