This is a list of music genres and styles.
Classifications are often arbitrary, and may be disputed and closely related forms often overlap.
Larger genres and styles comprise more specific sub-categories.
Chinese: Hong Kong, China: Taiwanese: Japanese: Korean: Sri Lankan: Malaysian: Indonesian: Thai: Filipino: Lao: Vietnamese: These categories are not exhaustive.
Most of these genres were created by music labels to target new audiences, however classification is useful to find music and distribute it.