In the early 2000s, outside of North America, Britpop, post punk revival and alternative rock were at the height of their popularity with acts such as The Libertines, Oasis, Lynda Thomas,

Travis, Dido, Blur, The Hives, which still continued at the top of the major charts in the rest of the world since the 1990s.

Electronic music was also highly popular throughout the decade; at the beginning of the 2000s, genres such as trance, chillout, house, indietronica, and Eurodance (in Europe) were popular.

By the end of the decade, a fusion between hip hop and electronic dance similar to the Freestyle music of the late 1980s and early 1990s, known as Hip House also grew successful

Despite a slight slip in popularity in the early part of the decade, adult contemporary and country music were still able to find success throughout the 2000s.

The main genres of the 2000s is modern RnB and modern rock.

Music Styles and Trends of the 2000s

How music was distributed in the 2000s?

Music is distributed in many different way such as…• CDs/Albums• IPod • ITunes music store• YouTube• Radio• Amazon MP3• eMusic, • Google Play• Nokia Music Store• TuneTribe• Xbox Music

Fashion of the 2000s

Rapper Clothing Brands

Sweatbands

Trucker HatsShutter Shades

Camo

Gauchos

The 2000s fashion are often described as being a "mash-up” where trends saw the fusion of previous styles, global and ethnic clothing

Tracksuits

Political Occurrences in the 2000s

-Terrorist attacks on the World Trade CentreInfluence music as artist incorporated meaningful lyrics to remember those who lost their lives.-Racist country music was mainly well known as an American phenomena -Neo-Nazi record company launched project ‘school yard’ which gave out free CD’s of music to hundreds of teenagers- Motto- ‘We don’t entertain racist kids we create them’ quote wiki -The Russian punk band ‘pussy riot’ were arrested and put on trial for hooliganism after they performed a anti-putin song

Major social changes of the 2000s

YouTube launched- February 2005

Release of the iPod-October 2001

The Cloud-June 6, 2009

Rock N Roll-

Most working-class teenagers pass through groups, change identities, play their leisure roles for fun. For every youth ‘stylist’ committed to a cult as a full-time creative task, there are hundreds of working-class kids who grow up in a loose membership of several groups and run with a variety of gangs. There’s a distinction here between a vanguard and a mass, between uses of leisure within subcultures.

Subculture for teenagers within music in the 2000s- influences