2010s in music
This article describes trends in popular music in the 2010s. See also: 2010s in the music industry.
In North America, Europe, and Oceania, synthpop, electronic, alternative rock, dance, electronic dance, and hip hop have been popular. Country remains popular in rural areas of the United States and Canada, while rock has seen a revival.
The melismatic vocals mainstream during the 1990s and 2000s in pop and contemporary R&B lost favor by mid-late 2009, as vocally lower key artists, including Katy Perry and Rihanna, started to outsell new releases by perennial melismatic favorites, Mariah Carey and Christina Aguilera. By the mid-2010s, the style of vocals popular in indie pop have become immensely widespread among pop instrumentalists as they are commonly used by younger ones, like Lorde and Birdy.
The saxophone has been used in multiple top 40 songs from the decade. "The Edge of Glory" from Lady Gaga's 2011 album Born This Way is credited with popularizing the use of saxophone early in the decade. Other songs to feature saxophone include Jason Derulo's Talk Dirty, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's Thrift Shop, Fifth Harmony's Worth It and Ariana Grande's Problem Saxophone solos were mainstream in pop from the 1950s to the early 1990s but declined later in the latter.
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