R+P Post 6: Current trends in popular music

Statistically, the most popular genre in the US is currently hip-hop/R&B, which has recently risen above rock, as explained by this article:
Hip-hop dominant genre

I couldn't find a similar study for UK music, but from the 2016 UK year-end chart and my own knowledge of music I would assume that pop and hip-hop are the most popular genres for individual songs, while rock seems to comfortably have the best album sales as a genre. It is also important to point out that these days there is a huge amount of crossover between genres, with hip-hop songs having pop-stars on them and pop songs having rap verses by hip-hop artists, along with more beat driven remixes of many successful rock and pop songs to appeal to fans of Electronic dance music (EDM).

Garage is currently undergoing a revival in popularity, and although the level of success is far from the early 2000s peak of the genre, it has come back significantly thanks largely to the sudden success of UK grime. Since these two genres began around the same time in the same areas of London there is a lot of crossover between the genres, with many of the newly popular Grime artists such as Lethal Bizzle having previously been involved in the garage scene. Additionally, new artists like Disclosure and Jorja Smith are taking a more glossy and pop-inspired version of garage which has been gaining lots of airplay on popular radio stations such as 'Kiss FM' and 'Capital FM', which primarily play pop and EDM.