Billboard does not have a specific genre as I have found out The two most notable charts are

e the Billboard Hot 100, which ranks the top 100 songs regardless of genre and is based on digital sales, radio airplay, and internet streaming data; and the Billboard 200, the corresponding chart for album sales. For my magazine I have to research recent top artists so it is up to date from any genre. I have found this information and print screened it from the Billboard magazine website: The number one artist at the moment is

Rihanna is a mixture of R&B, Pop, and Hip Hop. Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B and RnB, is a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s.[1] The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular.[2]

Popular r&b artists: Rihanna Nicki Minaj Kanye West Jay- Z Big Sean Lil Wayne Beyonce Alicia Keys The weeknd 2 Chainz Chris Brown Frank Ocean Trey Songz

As a genre, pop music is very eclectic, often borrowing elements from other styles including urban, dance, rock, Latin and country;[1] nonetheless, there are core elements which define pop. Such include generally short-to-medium length songs, written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), as well as the common employment of repeated choruses, melodic tunes, and catchy hooks.[1] So-called "pure pop" music, such as power pop, features all these elements, using electric guitars, drums and bass for instrumentation;[1] in the case of such music, the main goal is usually that of being pleasurable to listen to, rather than having much artistic depth.[1] Pop music is generally thought of as a genre which is commercially recorded and desires to have a mass audience appeal.[1 Popular Pop Artists: Kesha Ed Sheeran Skrillex Cher Lloyd Gotye Katy Perry Justin Bieber Pink Kelly Clarkson One Direction Adele

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include indie pop, jangle pop, C86, and lo-fi, among others. Originally used to describe record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US, and then Britpop bands in the UK, broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground and less testosterone-driven perspective. In the 2000s, as a result of changes in the music industry and the growing importance of the Internet, a number of indie rock acts began to enjoy commercial success, leading to questions about its meaningfulness as a term. Popular Indie Rock Artists: Chvrches The 1975 Poolside Micky Ekko Kodaline Atoms For Peace Hot Chip Cold Cave

Reggae fusion is a fusion genre of reggae that mixes reggae or dancehall with other genres, such as pop, rock, R&B, Eurohouse, jazz & drum and bass Popular Reggae Fushion artists: Shaggy Sean Kingston Bruno Mars Elephant Man Gyptian The police No Doubt Misha B Rihanna

K-pop (Korean: , kayo[1]) (an abbreviation of Korean pop or Korean popular music[1]) is a musical genre consisting of dance, electronic, electropop, hip hop, rock, and R&B music originating in South Korea.[1][2][3][4][5] In addition to music, K-pop has grown into a popular subculture among teenagers and young adults around the world.[

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt rock or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s. Although the term was most commonly associated in its commercial heyday with a loud, distorted guitar sound, its original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their collective debt to either the musical style, or simply the independent, D.I.Y. ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music.[1] At times, "alternative" has been used as a catch-all description for music from underground rock artists that receives mainstream recognition, or for any music, whether rock or not, that is seen to be descended from punk rock (including some examples of punk itself, as well as New Wave, and postpunk). Popular Alterantive rock artiasts: Nirvana Radiohead Pearl Jam Red hot chilli peppers Foo Fighters R.E.M Green Day

Americana is an amalgam of roots musics formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influential styles such as bluegrass.[1] Americana is popularly referred to, especially in print, as alternative country, alt-country or sometimes alt. country. [1]
Popular Americicana artists:

Johnny Cash The Lumineers

Dave Alvin[3] Ryan Bingham[4] Neko Case[5] Justin Townes Earle[6] Alison Krauss[5] Gillian Welch[5] Levon Helm[5]

Country music is a genre of American popular music that began in the rural regions of the Southern United States in the 1920s and 20th century Canada.[1] It takes its roots from southeastern American folk music, Western cowboy. Blues mode has been used extensively throughout its recorded history.[2] Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjoes, electric and acoustic guitars, fiddles, and harmonicas.[3][4][5]