2000s in music

UK garage (also known as UKG) is a genre of electronic music originating from the United Kingdom in the early 1990s.

Dubstep /ˈdʌbstɛp/ is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London, England.

Chinese rock (Chinese: 中国摇滚; pinyin: Zhōngguó yáogǔn; also simplified Chinese: 中国摇滚音乐; traditional Chinese: 中國搖滾音樂; pinyin: Zhōngguó yáogǔn yīnyuè, lit. "Chinese rock and roll music") is a wide variety of rock and roll music made by rock bands and solo artists from native Chinese-speaking regions (including China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, etc.).

A mashup (also mesh, mash up, mash-up, blend, bootleg and bastard pop/rock) is a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another.

Wizard rock (sometimes shortened as Wrock) is a genre of rock music that developed between 2002 and 2004 in the United States.

Alternative metal (also known as alt-metal) is a rock music genre that infuses heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal.

Rap metal is a subgenre of rap rock and alternative metal music which combines hip hop with heavy metal.

Skate punk (also known as skate rock, skatecore and skate-thrash) is a skater subculture and a subgenre of punk rock that is named after its popularity among skaters and association with skateboarding culture.

Snap music is a subgenre of hip hop music derived from crunk that originated in the South in the late-1990s, in Bankhead, West Atlanta, the United States.

Crunkcore (also called crunk punk, screamo crunk, crunk rock, and scrunk) is a musical genre that combines crunk with the vocal style of screamo.

Riot grrrl is an underground feminist hardcore punk movement that originated in the early 1990s in Washington State (particularly Olympia) and the greater Pacific Northwest.

Nerdcore is a genre of hip hop music characterized by themes and subject matter considered to be of general interest to nerds.

The word hyphy (/ˈhaɪfiː/ HY-fee) is Oakland slang meaning "hyperactive.

Pop-rap (also known as hip pop) is a genre of music fusing the rhythm-based lyricism of hip hop music with pop music's preference for melodious vocals and catchy tunes, which gained mainstream popularity during the 1990s.

Bounce music is an energetic style of New Orleans hip hop music which is said to have originated as early as the late 1980s.

This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 2000s.

Chopper is a hip hop music style that originated in the Midwest and features fast-paced rhyming or rapping.

Eurobeat is either a form of the British dance-pop variant of Eurodisco or Hi-NRG-driven Italo disco music that both developed in 1980s.

Scottish hip-hop is the regional manifestation of the British hip hop culture in Scotland, comprising the five elements of MCing, DJing, beatboxing, graffiti and b-boying.

Synthwave, also called retrowave, is a musical style that emerged in the mid-2000s, influenced by 1980s soundtrack music.

Cloud rap (also known as trillwave) is a genre of hip hop music which through its methods of composition intends to produce a hypnagogic, dream-like aesthetic.

Korean rock is rock music originating from South Korea.