Brief Trend Timeline:
1950s- Rock and Roll
1960s- Swinging sixties - Motown primarily featuring African American artists
1970s- Rock Genre with bands such as Kiss
1980s- MTV generation
1990s- Hard Rock and Heavy Metal and birth of popular Alternative bands
2000's and 2010s- Synthesised dance and pop music slowly become the mainstream option
1960s- Swinging sixties - Motown primarily featuring African American artists
1970s- Rock Genre with bands such as Kiss
1980s- MTV generation
1990s- Hard Rock and Heavy Metal and birth of popular Alternative bands
2000's and 2010s- Synthesised dance and pop music slowly become the mainstream option
2012's Biggest song amongst teenagers
The Album Artwork of Gangnam style, summer 2012's most successful hit amongst teenagers. It is a K-pop single released by Psy, a South Korean Singer.
'Although K-pop has been massively popular throughout Asia over the past decade, it is still fairly uncommon for K-pop songs to be featured in Western broadcasting networks and newspapers. However, "Gangnam Style" has managed to catch the attention of media outlets around the world including Thomson Reuters,[20] The New York Times,[21] The Bergen County Record,[22] the Los Angeles Times,[23] The Huffington Post,[24] The Herald Sun,[25] The Atlantic,[19] the CBC,[26] The Vancouver Observer,[27] The Wall Street Journal,[28] ABC News,[17] USA Today,[29] Bloomberg,[30] ESPN,[31] Le Point,[32] Libération[33] Le Nouvel Observateur,[34] BBC,[35] VH1,[36] and the Financial Times.[37]'
The song's music video has received 291,991,533 views on Youtube - the song has become an immensely popular trend for teenagers, and is also the source of many online memes (comical pictures which take inspiration from real world trends).
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