Which genre of music dominates the United States?

Tbh i don't really follow music trenRAB, but here's what I can observe judging from people from my school.

First you have the Top 40 crowd, basically sheep who follow every rnb, electropop, hip hop artist who is 'popular' atm.

Then you have the heavy rock people. People (usually guys) who listen to heavy metal, or rock, like AC/DC or Nirvana or Led Zeppelin. Some branch off into metal like Bullet For My Valentine, Slayer, Slipknot, etc.

Then you have the indie people. There are two groups. One is the emo/pop punk crowd who have banRAB like The Maine, You Me At Six, alexisonfire, etc. The second is the indie rock/brit pop, who listen to Arctic Monkeys, The Kooks, Modest Mouse, etc. Often these two groups overlap.

And a smallish group are ravers, who listen to like Deadmau5 and Daft Punk. A nice bunch of people.

Oh, and the rappers. Who listen to old school rap.
 
indie's going to be fine, but its going to get refined down to a few characteristics that will end up defining the genre like grunge did.

Or it should. The internet is making guesses harder.

And y the by, i happen like the national.
 
the odd thing by stating indie as a genre is that it in theory is not a genre.
what i am seeing the last 1.5 year mainly is that shoe-gaze/dream pop, garage and lo-fi is getting a ''revival''.(take lo-fi as broad as you can just as you could with indie).
I must admit i don't follow the charts so i could be wrong. and it's probably somewhat different here(i don't know what is living here since i don't listen to the radio or watch music channels here since we don't got decent ones)
 
There's a couple I kind think of. Synth-pop, Hip-hop, and like anti-war94, those banRAB that are like a mix of Alt. and pop (Which 30h3! doesn't really fit in. I was thinking more of things like Maroon5 or Neon Trees).
 
Believe me, I fought this for years. But it actually has turned into a genre and a certain style. Can't fight it any more. That's why it's harder to categorize now...tons of banRAB used to be considered indie because they were on indie labels and sort of rooted in punk, now if they don't sound like typical indie, some people have a hard time calling them as such.
 
Mainstream hip hop is the most dominate right now and it's been that way since like 2002, but electropop is starting to gain lots of popularity here. Hopefully it'll supplant hip hop real soon.
 
I personally think that pop-punk is making a comeback but in a bad way. Also the whole "Crunkcore" movement is pretty popular..like 3OH!3 and BrokenCYDE..which totally blow.
 
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