i literally listen to everything imaginable but here are some of my favorite artists / groups

2020 edit: this was never meant to be this fucking long dear god @ past me wtf is your damage.. i sincerely do not know why i'm keeping this list but fuck it yolo dabs i really love 80s music and as a whole my favorite musical genres tend to be a mixture of symphonic heavy metal or pop.

english:

• nightwish - symphonic metal
• kamelot - power metal
• xandria - symphonic metal
• unsun - gothic metal
• luca turilli - power metal / symphonic metal
• blind guardian - power metal
• amon amarth - melodic death metal
• lacuna coil - gothic metal
• sirenia - gothic / symphonic metal
• epica - symphonic metal
• within temptation - symphonic metal
• eluveitie - folk metal
• turisas - folk metal
• amberian dawn - symphonic metal
• tarja turunen - symphonic metal
• van halen - hard rock
• metallica - heavy metal
• seal - soul / r&b
• frank sinatra - jazz
• green day - punk rock
• paul mccartney - rock / pop
• lady gaga - pop
• the irish rovers - irish folk / folk rock
• nothing but thieves - alternative rock
• thundercat - funk / r&b
• caravan palace - electro swing
• prince - pop / funk
• jamiroquai - funk / acid jazz
• grimes - synth-pop
• panic! at the disco - rock / pop rock
• fall out boy - pop punk / pop rock
• the cars - rock / new wave
• mura masa - alternative r&b
• khalid - r&b

japanese:

• nami tamaki - pop
• namie amuro - pop / r&b
• yui - pop / rock
• morning musume - electropop / edm
• buono! - pop / rock
• the peanuts - pop
• chiaki ishikawa - pop
• yuki kajiura - world
• yui makino - pop
• fripside - pop / trance
• access - electropop
• flow - alternative rock
• snowkel - rock
• home made kazoku - hip hop
• one ok rock - rock
• girugamesh - nu metal / alternative rock
• asian kung-fu generation - rock
• kaoru akimoto - pop / city pop
• mariya takueichi - pop / city pop
• meiko nakahara - pop / city pop
• momoko kikuchi - pop / city pop
• anri - pop / city pop
• hiromi go - pop / city pop
• sugiyama kiyotaka & omega tribe - pop / city pop

chinese:

• jolin tsai - pop
• wulan tuoya - traditional
• hebe tian - mandopop

korean:

• kara - pop
• 2ne1 - hip hop / r&b
• f(x) - electropop
• girls generation - pop
• nine muses - pop / dance
• stellar - pop / dance
• bts - pop / hip hop
• exo - pop / r&b
• bigbang - pop / hip hop
• iu - dance / ballad
• 4minute - dance-pop / hip hop
• miss a - pop / dance-pop
• 5dolls - pop / dance-pop
• boa - pop / j-pop / r&b
• aoa - pop / r&b
• rania - pop / electropop
• u-kiss - dance / electropop
• block b - hip hop / r&b
• brave girls - reggae / dance
• kisum - hip hop
• ladies' code - electropop / r&b
• sistar - edm
• epik high - alternative hip hop
• dean - alternative r&b
• sunmi - pop
• twice - pop / edm

spanish:

• ricky martin - pop
• rodrigo y gabriela - acoustic / folk
• bajofondo - neotango / electronica
• gipsy kings - pop / catalan rumba
• maluma - reggaeton / latin trap
• bad bunny - raggaeton / latin trap
• j balvin - reggaeton / latin trap
• daddy yankee - reggaeton / latin trap

french:

• alizee - world / pop
• rika zarai - pop

turkish:

• tarkan - pop
• serdar ortac - pop
• mahsun kirmizigul - world
• gulben ergen - pop-folk
• hande yener - pop / electronic

instrumental:

• two steps from hell - neoclassical / epic
• thomas bergersen - epic
• yoko kanno - jazz / orchestral
• junichi masuda - piano / soundtrack
• jo blankenburg - piano / drums
• hans zimmer - piano / soundtrack
• immediate - epic
• joe hisaishi - piano / classical

other:

• goran bregovic - world
• nelly makdessy - arabic pop
• feruza jumaniyozova - traditional
• daler mehndi - pop / bhangra
• macross 82-99 - future funk / vaporwave