By the Word of Google: The World's Top Musical Genres

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By Google results:

1. World - 1,050,000,000
2. Country - 352,000,000
3. House - 316,000,000
4. Pop - 92,100,000
5. Classical - 75,600,000
6. Opera - 48,700,000
7. Jazz - 47,600,000
8. Soul - 32,800,000
9. Vocal - 16,300,000
10. Rap - 14,200,000
11. Jungle - 11,300,000
12. Electro - 10,100,000
13. Funk - 9,930,000
14. Reggae - 7,640,000
15. Bluegrass - 5,100,000
16. Trance - 4,450,000
17. Avant-garde - 3,960,000
18. Classic Rock - 3,740,000
19. Dancehall - 1,040,000
20. Smooth Jazz - 760,000

- WORLD MUSIC #1
- JUNGLE IN #11 SHOCKAH!
- TRANCE, AVANT-GARDE CRUSH CLASSIC ROCK!

― Davis McNitt (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Um, what was your methodology?

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,050,000,000 for world [definition]. (0.11 seconds)

― Davis McNitt (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

I have just used the same techniques to conclude that The The is the most popular band in the universe ever.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Actually, Chicago beats them by far.

Chicago - 154,000,000
The The - 16,100,000

This is better than Billboard -- wow!

― Davis McNitt (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Oh, glory no:

Pitchfork - 707,000
ILX - 252,000

― Herbie Reality (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

My step-dad always called Rap "Jungle Music".

Maybe there's some confusion here.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Davis you have unfairly restricted things by searching for "The The," which excludes uses like "that new The album is great!" (Cf "that new Cramps album is so great.") Searching for "the" alone would return so many results that google won't even bother doing it, proving finally and BY SCIENCE that everyone loves Matt Johnson.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Oh, glory no:

Pitchfork - 707,000
ILX - 252,000

Ummmm...

ILM - 2,200,000

― Rob Uptight. (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Have yall heard my new single though?

That's your boy...

Kanye

― Kanye West (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

yo kayne whassup boi ya'll be hatin' but i luv this room ya done setup. playa, i been had loved you since you was down on that cletus and the decleators album back in da old skool days yo. good lookin'. holla atcha boi.

― da googler, Friday, 5 August 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 335 for alldisco. (0.16 seconds)

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

1. World - 1,050,000,000
2. Country - 352,000,000
3. House - 316,000,000
4. Pop - 92,100,000

This means that Phoenix should be the biggest band ever!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,590 for "what is pop music". (0.90 seconds)

― Talk About, Friday, 5 August 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Wow, Spencer, I BEG to differ:

Chicago - 154,000,000
Phoenix - 49,300,000

I don't know what that is in Roman numerals, but I'm betting it's more than "Chicago XIV".

― David McNitt (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

I like how you cleverly completely left "rock" out of your search.

Rock = 102,000,000.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Noise = 33,000,000.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Blues = 32,300,000.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

I like how you cleverly completely left "rock" out of your search.

Do you like that? Or are you kidding? I like you.

― David McNitt (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

All topping Chicago's piddly 154k:

Europe: 306,000,000
Asia: 206,000,000
Earth: 167,000,000

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

I'm not kidding! I like you too! Let's do it! Let's fall in love!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm not kidding! I like you too! Let's do it! Let's fall in love!

I don't know you that well yet. But I have a profile on JDate (not even Jewish HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH). Email me for the link (can't give it to everyone HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH).

Is "Nickalicious" a play on "Nicole"?

― Davis McNitt (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

techno, what's happening?

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 5 August 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 11,800,000 for punk.(0.25 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,520,000 for emo. (0.06 seconds)

emo still struggling behind classic rock, but punk edges out jungle!

― jonviachicago, Friday, 5 August 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Most gleefully pointless use of Google since I compared number of matching records for "pancakes" (1,960,000), "hotcakes" (196,000) and "flapjacks" (87,600)!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

"techno, what's happening?"

obv eminem was right.

― nathalie sans denouement (stevie nixed), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

BOB WILLS IS STILL THE KING!

texas swing=2,710,000

grime=931,000

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

post dubstep=12,200

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

BOB WILLS IS STILL THE KING!

As he should be!

The only difference between this and my audioscrobbler profile is:

texas swing = 2,710,000

grime = 0

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

peruvian metalcore=271

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

DOUG LAZY GETTIN' CRAZY!!!!

hip house=9,210,000!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

I got 1,590,000 for grime.

― daavid (daavid), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Electronic music taxonimists don't rule the world as I had previously thought:

Results 1 - 10 of about 358 for "it's not techno, it's". (0.38 seconds)

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

I like inflated numbers as much as the next man, but... a pair of quotation marks would knock the Texas Swing a long way down.

― Herbert Reality (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

xpost

really? i just did it again and got the same number. i'm afraid our highly scientific data has been compromised. our grant money could be in danger here...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

22,600 for "ambiguous word".

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 626 for "it's not pop, it's". (0.36 seconds)

― Rob Uptight. (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Metal=46,000,000

― daavid (daavid), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

22,600 for "ambiguous word".

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

microtonal jazz=21,000

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 26,000 for "texas swing". (0.31 seconds)

My grant money's doing fine -- I just hired a secretary who is actually really into Texas Swing.

― Herbie Reality (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

seriously? we must be using different version of google...i'm just typing in the word in hte main search thing and hitting the button.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Mike Patton side projects=194,000

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "poorly aging secretary" - did not match any documents.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "Mike Patton slide projects" - did not match any documents.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Industrial, more popular than Pop!

137,000,000

― daavid (daavid), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 36,600 for "courtney love" secretary. (0.83 seconds)

― Rob Uptight. (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Produced by Curtis Mantronix=565

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "courtney love ass looking secretary" - did not match any documents

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "goddamn I must be bored at work and I'm becoming obnoxious" - did not match any documents.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,630,000 for horny latino office boy. (0.26 seconds)

― Herbie Reality (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "goddamn I must be bored at work and I'm becoming obnoxious" - did not match any documents.

Your search - "Ain't that the fucking truth" - did not match any documents

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 443 for "Ain't that the fucking truth". (0.36 seconds)

It's official -- MATT'S GOOGLE IS FUCKED!!!!!

― Herbie Reality (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "you have hurt my feelings so here is my suicide note" - did not match any documents.

(in other words, I'm leaving work now)

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Oh, glory no:

Pitchfork - 707,000
ILX - 252,000

-- Herbie Reality (theherbma...), August 5th, 2005.

Nah, you just searched wrong:

Results 1 - 10 of about 65,200,000 for i love music.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 35,900,000 for "the fall"

more popular than vocal, rap and jungle combined, apparantly - even with the quotation marks

― chris andrews (fraew), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 35,900,000 for "the fall"

Yes. the Fall are way better than:

Results 1 - 10 of about 4,700,000 for Sting. (0.12 seconds)

Gotta love it.

― declan zimmerman, Friday, 5 August 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Europe: 306,000,000
Asia: 206,000,000
Earth: 167,000,000

sorry, everybody, but the musical world is obviously ruled by the guy from the eels, with john and exene in second place, and johnny depp and gibby haynes in third.

E: 1,270,000,000
X: 427,000,000
P: 309,000,000

the guy from the eels, it is worth pointing out, is more popular than the world itself.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 5 August 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

the who: 792,000,000

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 5 August 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

-- fact checking cuz (factcheckingcu...), August 5th, 2005.

Nice. We need a fact checker. I need a cuz.

― Herbie Reality, Saturday, 6 August 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

E is already up to 1,460,000,000!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 6 August 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

He must have dissed The Game in the past four hours or something.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 6 August 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 37,900,000 for "The Game". (0.33 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 4,210,000 for "50 Cent". (0.07 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 780 for "Down With G-Unit". (0.39 seconds)
Your search - "can i be down with g-unit" - did not match any documents.

― Davis McNitt, Saturday, 6 August 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

the band Adult Net seem to be doing well

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 6 August 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 375,000 for "Happy Mondays". (0.34 seconds)

― Rob Uptight. (Rob Uptight.), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "latvian crunk" - did not match any documents.

Sigh.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 8 August 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 2,446,000 for "Latvian Crunk". (0.34 seconds)

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 15 August 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Not in quotation marks, though.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 15 August 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

Results 1 - 10 of about 3,440,000 for grebo. (0.33 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 109 for post-grebo. (1.22 seconds)

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

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