Some Person With Their Opinions

Now that we are into the halfway point into 2026 (Well for Billboard we have way past that but I digress), Let's grade the ins and outs of what's happening with popular music. The consensus seems to be that this year has been lousy so far — that it's either the continuation of 2025 bad year or even worse. I can't say I won't really blamed them per say but there's a nuance to this year. Let's look at every genres and see if there's a consensus or not. Pop was slow at first but it really picked up a lot with Olivia Rodrigo. RnB is still good but I can see some cracks that are showing, Kpop is actually having a busy and better than average year. And we even got some crossover rock and country songs here to a mixed results. I think the genres that have actual bad year on the chart were Hip-hop, EDM, and Latin Pop. Hip-hop is having generational bad year that made 2023 look quaint. EDM is still on their AI bullshit. And Latin Pop basically just held up by Bad...