Is K-Pop the music genre you listen to the most?

This year was very very kpop heavy but typically it's like half and half between kpop and every other genre (mostly rock, pop, edm, and jpop, though only anime OP/EDs and yoasobi)

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Oh that was many years ago during my anime deep dive phase. Now I'm more diverse, but I still prefer girl bands usually. A friend really put me on SaiSai, and I've always liked Babymetal. Even saw them in Osaka Dome once with the original trio

hm... thats far off of what I could offer you to check out 😅 I'm not really into girlband music from Japan, also not really into girlgroups like Babymetal (I had a phase many years back where I listened to them but now no more)

Maybe you like something from these songs (many of the acts are disbanded tho):

Normally no and after I get caught up with the third and fourth gen groups I missed while not listening to kpop for 10 years it'll likely go back to being like less than 5% of my normal playlists. Right now it's probably about 95% of what I'm listening to because of trying to catch up.

1. Jpop (mainly Yorushika songs)

2. Musicals

3. Kpop

4. Western Pop

I like indiscriminately listen to any pop at all.

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Kpop is my primary genre and then after that, my main big genres are Rock/Metal/Alternative with a shmear of Hip Hop.

I got into Ghost big time this year, into their music and lore.

Oh and Taylor Swift. I kind of think becoming going from being a mostly metalhead type person to a Swiftie was my eventual gateway to kpop.

And then some dabbling in some jpop stuff and city pop depending on mood.

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I like indiscriminately listen to any pop at all.

so would you also say you listen to music like let's say from places like Venezuela, Kenya, Iraq, France, Poland, Egypt, Turkey, Australia, Sweden,... ?

I used to listen to kpop more but now it's only like 35%? Other percentage is western music

Humm, not at all. I have a really vast music taste even before I got into kpop. Before kpop I started with brazilian funk, hip hop and pop music since it's the type of music I grew up with. Thanks to Brazil being an open minded country some of the biggest hit songs I remember being played everywhere was a french song called Hey Oh by duo Tragedie. Then at age 9 or something I got a pirate dvd with Guns n Roses music videos in it and became obsessed. Then I got into nu metal, folk metal, industrial metal. I also had a phase when I used to be obsessed with old school reggaeton. Still am. Some of my favorite artists are Gogol Bordello, Tarkan, Rammstein (truly my top#1) Dalmata, Type O Negative, Emika, The Neighborhood, Falamansa, Raimundos. None sound similar from each other. Two of my most played songs this year was a jazz blues and a classical piece so it's truly random. I like kpop too because is catchy, fun, and very interesting in sound. But the phase when I used to listen to it the most was when I got into it, around 2017-2018. Nowadays it doesn't attract me as much as it used to especially if it isn't released by my favorite groups, unfortunately. But I try to check new releases, bonus if it's by SM.

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so would you also say you listen to music like let's say from places like Venezuela, Kenya, Iraq, France, Poland, Egypt, Turkey, Australia, Sweden,... ?

Weirdly i can say yes to all but poland and egypt lmaaaaoooooooo

Like a bop is a bop. I listen to reggaeton already as a norm (i’m spanish too), i always liked french pop after i heard Sucette by Aya Nakamura, maybe not Kenya but i have listened to a bunch of arabic rap and pop bc my bestie speaks Urdu. Australia and Sweden already make up like 25% of “western” pop anyways. I feel like ive rested my case! As long as the beat is meant for hips im good. Or if im introduced to it in the right season

I listen more Western pop and rock than Kpop especially since last year.

yeah