Progressive house and dubstep seemed to have been popular from about 2007-2012 or so, but both those genres have given way to a lot of electro house (either the commercial radio stuff or the festival-type sound -- two very different sounds), as well as future house, deep house and trap. Deep house being somewhat of a '90s revival thing in some respect and future house being deep house on steroids. Maybe some trance too with artists such as Armin van Buuren, Gareth Emery, etc. David Guetta, Zedd and Pitbull do more house music, just to give examples.

I subscribe to over 20 YouTube channels as well as listen to other outlets such as Pandora, and I'd say that most of the genres are represented as if there's been no shift in anything, but that's from an underground perspective and is determinate based on my individual preferences and which artists I did or did not seek out on my own. When it comes to the mainstream stuff, it is more like what I mentioned in my first sentence IMO. If you're wanting an analysis by charts, I can respect that, but I never look at them so I can't give a further analysis based on that. I'd say that house -- when including all its variants -- is ruling at the moment.

Exactly as I say then, Biggie's Ready To Die was 94' and Ready To Die came out 97', along with Jay-Z'z first album Reasonable Doubt (which I wouldn't call a hit) came out 96'. That's why I say the real process of of commercialization started 94' to 00'.

I think I've had this argument with William before but I feel like Rap as a genre is at an all time high (or peaked in the last ~10 years). It's made it's way into multiple genres and is having more mainstream success than I ever remember. You could argue it's not nearly as "good" as the Golden Era, but it's more commercially successful.

I agree, the beats now are way better too.
The evolution of rap has amazed me, they changed the tempo and groove of it and they are still trying to find new ways to keep innovating on the genre.

Yes you have lol, but it is not aimed at rap, but rather all musical genres in general. Anyhow I disagree, I think we hit peak rap back in the early 00's when rap utilized through R&B completely dominated the pop charts, but the landscape of pop music has been changing over the last few years with the ascent of Lady Gaga in other artists. Don't get me wrong, rap is still immensely popular and will be for most likely the next two decades, but I do feel it has hit its peak, and I think time will bear that out.

All music has its golden age. I feel the last golden age for music in general was the 90s

My understanding is that its popularity has been in decline over the past decade or so.

i think its more popular now than in the 00s decade.

Rap is still on the rise and so is metal and all its sub genres..

im not a fan of either of those genres but i can't deny they are still popular.

music history major?