Musicians of the United Kingdom (2000s & 2010s) =Popular music of the United Kingdom in the 2000s continued to expand and develop new subgenres and fusions. While talent show contestants were one of the major forces in pop music, British soul maintained and even extended its high profile with figures like Joss Stone, Estelle, Duffy and Adele, while a new group of singer/songwriters led by Amy W...
Musicians of the United Kingdom (1990s) = Popular music of the United Kingdom in the 1990s continued to develop and diversify. While the singles charts were dominated by boy bands and girl groups, British soul and Indian-based music also enjoyed their greatest level of mainstream success to date, and the rise of World music helped revitalise the popularity of folk music. Electronic rock bands l...
Musicians of the United Kingdom (1980s) =Popular music of the United Kingdom in the 1980s built on the post-punk and new wave movements, incorporating different sources of inspiration from subgenres and what is now classed as world music in the shape of Jamaican and Indian music. It also explored the consequences of new technology and social change in the electronic music of synthpop. In the ea...