Editing 2010s (section)

===Music===
{{Main|2010s in music}}
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Globalism and an increased demand for variety and personalisation in the face of [[music streaming service]]s such as [[Spotify]] and [[Apple Music]] created many new subgenres. US digital music sales topped CD sales in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Halliday |first=Josh |date=6 January 2012 |title=Digital downloads overtake physical music sales in the US for first time |url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jan/06/downloads-physical-sales-us |access-date=8 December 2020 |website=The Guardian}}</ref> [[Dance music|Dance]], [[hip-hop]], and [[pop music]] surged in the 2010s,<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Leight |first=Elias |date=3 January 2019 |title=Hip-Hop Continued to Dominate the Music Business in 2018 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hip-hop-continued-to-dominate-the-music-business-in-2018-774422/ |access-date=8 December 2020 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref> with hip-hop and [[Contemporary R&B|R&B]] surpassing [[rock music|rock]] as the biggest US music genre in 2018.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-music-2017-idUSKBN1ET258 |title=Hip hop and R&B surpass rock as biggest U.S. music genre |newspaper=Reuters |date=4 January 2018 |via=reuters.com}}</ref>

==== Genres ====
[[Electronic dance music]] (EDM) achieved mass commercial success in the middle of the decade but fell somewhat into decline by the end.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Alvarado |first=Abel |date=30 October 2015 |title=It's a $6.2B industry but, how did EDM get so popular? |url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/12/18/world/how-did-edm-get-so-popular/index.html |access-date=8 December 2020 |website=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Smirke |first=Richard |date=23 May 2019 |title=Is The Party Over? EDM's Share of US Record Market Falls As DJ Earnings Slip to Five-Year Low |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8512892/edm-dance-music-share-us-recorded-music-market-share-ims-report |magazine=Billboard |access-date=8 December 2020}}</ref> The mass global appeal of EDM music (and subgenres such as [[dubstep]], [[electro house]] and [[Trap music (EDM)|trap]]) from the early-to-mid part of the decade spawned the rise in fame of DJs and digital music producers, such as [[Skrillex]], [[Tiësto]], [[Avicii]], [[Steve Aoki]], [[Deadmau5]], [[Calvin Harris]], [[Baauer]] and [[Diplo]].

[[Country music]] also saw a resurgence throughout the 2010s in the United States, with artists like [[Luke Bryan]], [[Jason Aldean]], [[Blake Shelton]], [[Carrie Underwood]], [[Eric Church]], [[Kacey Musgraves]], [[Chris Stapleton]] and [[Florida Georgia Line]] topping the charts and garnering many music industry awards.

With the rise of the internet in the 2010s, [[independent music]] (or "indie music") gained a large international cult following, with successful indie bands being [[Foster the People]], [[Dr. Dog]], [[Tally Hall]], [[Florence and the Machine]], [[Beach House]], [[Alt-J]], [[Of Monsters and Men]], [[The National (band)|the National]], [[Two Door Cinema Club]], and [[M83 (band)|M83]]; as well as successful indie solo artists being [[Tame Impala]], [[Neil Cicierega]], [[St. Vincent (musician)|St. Vincent]], [[Father John Misty]], [[Ellie Goulding]], [[Feist (singer)|Feist]], [[Sufjan Stevens]], [[Lana Del Rey]], [[Justin Vernon]] and [[Lorde]].

==== Artists ====
Music artists like [[Lady Gaga]], [[Taylor Swift]], [[Justin Bieber]], [[Katy Perry]], [[Bruno Mars]], [[Rihanna]] and [[Nicki Minaj]] (with their albums such as ''[[The Fame Monster]]'', ''[[1989 (Taylor Swift album)|1989]]'', ''[[My World 2.0]]'', ''[[Teenage Dream (Katy Perry album)|Teenage Dream]]'', ''[[Doo-Wops & Hooligans]]'', ''[[Loud (Rihanna album)|Loud]]'' and ''[[Pink Friday]]'' respectively) increased the global commercial appeal of pop music in the 2010s, with each of them selling over 100 million records in the 2010s and becoming some of the best-selling musicians of all time.

''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' named [[Drake (musician)|Drake]] the [[Billboard Music Awards#Artist of the Decade Award|top artist of the decade]] in the US.<ref name="billboard">{{Cite magazine |date=31 October 2019 |title=Top Artists |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/decade-end/top-artists/ |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|name=billboard}}<!--NOTE:Let's keep both the solo artist and musical group lists at or under 20 names. Only replace names as you/the wiki community sees fit, just don't add more than 20.--> Other popular musical solo artists of the 2010s included [[Adele]], [[Ed Sheeran]], [[Beyoncé]], [[Kanye West]], [[Kendrick Lamar]], [[J. Cole]], [[the Weeknd]], [[Frank Ocean]], [[Ariana Grande]], [[Miley Cyrus]], [[Khalid (American singer)|Khalid]], [[Sam Smith]], [[Travis Scott]], [[Cardi B]], [[Future (rapper)|Future]], [[Shawn Mendes]], [[Post Malone]], [[Kesha]], [[Selena Gomez]] and [[Fetty Wap]].<ref name="billboard" />

Popular musical groups of the decade included [[One Direction]], [[BTS]], [[Imagine Dragons]], [[Mumford & Sons]], [[Arcade Fire]], [[Twenty One Pilots]], [[Migos]], [[Swedish House Mafia]], [[Bon Iver]], [[Zac Brown Band]], [[Maroon 5]], [[Alabama Shakes]], [[the Chainsmokers]], [[OneRepublic]], [[Vampire Weekend]], [[the Lumineers]], [[Lady A]], [[Fun (band)|Fun]], [[5 Seconds of Summer]] and [[Anthem Lights]].

Successful duos included [[the Black Keys]], [[Run the Jewels]], [[Matt and Kim]], [[Rae Sremmurd]], [[Love and Theft (duo)|Love and Theft]], [[LMFAO]], [[Garfunkel and Oates]] and [[Dan + Shay]].

Several prominent musicians from past decades died in the 2010s, including [[Ronnie James Dio]] in 2010, [[Gil Scott-Heron]] and [[Amy Winehouse]] in 2011, [[Whitney Houston]] and [[Adam Yauch]] in 2012, [[Lou Reed]] in 2013, [[Joe Cocker]] in 2014, [[Ben E. King]], [[B.&nbsp;B. King]] and [[Lemmy Kilmister]] in 2015, [[David Bowie]], [[Glenn Frey]], [[Phife Dawg]], [[Merle Haggard]], [[Prince (musician)|Prince]], [[Pete Burns]], [[Leonard Cohen]] and [[George Michael]] all in 2016, [[Chuck Berry]], [[Chris Cornell]], [[Prodigy (rapper)|Prodigy]] and [[Tom Petty]] in 2017, [[Aretha Franklin]] in 2018, and [[Keith Flint]] in 2019. There were also several deaths of newer hip-hop artists who had started or first became successful in the 2010s, including [[Capital Steez]], [[Lil Peep]], [[XXXTentacion]], [[Mac Miller]], [[Nipsey Hussle]], [[Juice Wrld]] and others.
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