Music can be described in terms of many 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.