Music continues to evolve alongside technology, culture and the way people listen to and create songs. In this ORBK.NET category, we explore how music may develop in the future, which genres and formats could gain popularity, and how artificial intelligence, streaming platforms and new digital tools are reshaping the music industry.
Here you will find articles about the future of music, AI in music, emerging music technologies, electronic music, genre evolution, music trends and changing listening habits. The focus is not only on short-lived trends, but also on long-term developments that could influence how music is created, distributed and experienced in the years ahead.
For most of recorded-music history, a voice was inseparable from a performance. A singer entered a studio, recorded a part, and the result was a specific recording. New lyrics, a different melody or another language normally required the person to…
In June 2026, fully AI-generated music exceeded half of all new daily uploads to Deezer at peak, with roughly 90,000 such tracks arriving per day. Yet synthetic tracks accounted for only 1–3% of listening, while Deezer classified up to 85%…
Not long ago, the answer to “What kind of music do you listen to?” could often be a single word: rock, pop, rap, metal or jazz. Today one playlist can move through electronic music, Afrobeats, hip-hop, indie pop, country and…