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Many music festivals for non-Western music, include bands and singers from a particular musical genre, such as world music. [158] [159] Indian music, for example, is one of the oldest and longest living types of music, and is still widely heard and performed in South Asia, as well as internationally (especially since the 1960s).
A series of wildfires (pictured) in Southern California, United States, leaves 5 people dead and forces more than 100,000 others to evacuate.; A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hits Tingri County in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, leaving at least 126 people dead.
A world music festival is held in New Plymouth, New Zealand, in early March each year, namely the New Zealand location of WOMAD. [62] Nigeria. World Music day is usually celebrated for one week in Lagos, Nigeria at different location around the state. [63] Poland. Poland's Cross-Culture Warsaw Festival is held in September each year. [64]
A previous logo for the Billboard Hot 100, main chart for singles in the U.S. (major world's music market). A record chart, also known as a music chart, is a method of ranking music judging by the popularity during a given period of time.
These categories are not exhaustive. A music platform, Gracenote, listed more than 2000 music genres (included by those created by ordinary music lovers, who are not involved within the music industry, these being said to be part of a 'folksonomy', i.e. a taxonomy created by non-experts).
During the third European leg, the band managed to score entries on the rankings from Greece (2 albums and 13 songs), [192] Finland (8 albums and 11 songs), [193] Austria (8 albums and 13 songs), [194] and Ireland (6 albums and 4 songs). [195] No individual tracks appeared in Hungary, but six of their records entered the Top 40. [196]
To these critics, "world music" is a parochial, catch-all marketing term for non-Western music of all genres. In October 1999, Luaka Bop label founder and ex-Talking Heads frontman David Byrne wrote an "I Hate World Music" editorial in The New York Times explaining his objections to the term. Byrne argued that the labelling and categorization ...
The most popular genres of music rank differently throughout the world. However, there are also very niche genres of music. For example, in Canada the most popular niche genre of music is video game soundtracks. In Sweden, black metal is a niche genre of music. In South India, Carnatic is a niche genre of music people enjoy listening to.