Where the genres, the playlists and the guides on this site come from — and what to do when one of them is wrong.
Dropo catalogs 6,296 genres. The list follows the genre names Spotify uses to classify artists, as mapped by Every Noise at Once — which is why it runs from giant families like pop, rock and hip-hop down to scenes as specific as one city or one instrument.
On top of that list we added a handful of umbrella pages — Electronic, Dance, Indie, Alternative and Latin — because people look for those words even though the map splits them into dozens of narrower genres. Common spellings such as “hiphop”, “kpop” or “lofi” lead to the right page.
The 156 moods, 10 styles and 37 decade pages are our own grouping: the occasions, versions and eras people actually look for music by.
We do not compile the genre, mood, style and decade playlists ourselves. Every playlist on Dropo is hosted on Spotify and plays through Spotify's official embedded player. What Dropo decides is which playlist represents a page.
Because the playlists belong to their owners, we do not control when they are updated or whether they stay online. If a player on a page is empty or broken, tell us and we will replace it.
What you hear in the player — previews or full tracks — depends on whether you are logged in to Spotify.
Every genre page carries the same guide: what the genre is, where and when it started, how it sounds, how it is produced, its key artists, its essential tracks, the genres around it and a short FAQ. Mood, style and decade pages follow the same idea with their own sections.
The guides are drafted with an AI language model, not written one by one by hand. Each draft is generated from a fixed brief — the same sections for every page — and from the basic facts we hold about the genre: where and roughly when it started, its usual tempo range and its typical instruments. The brief tells the model to stick to real, well-documented artists and tracks and not to invent any.
A model can still be wrong — a year off, an artist filed under the wrong scene, a track credited to the wrong name. Two things keep that in check. Artists and tracks are shown as plain text that links to Spotify search, so anything on a page can be checked by ear in one tap. And related genres are linked only when that genre really exists in the catalog.
The numbers are estimates. The tempo range and the five bars under “Sound & DNA” — energy, danceability, mood, acousticness and instrumental — are typical values assigned by genre family. They describe the genre in general; they are not measurements of the tracks in the playlist.
Email [email protected] with a link to the page and what looks wrong — an artist, a year, a tempo range, a track credit or a player that no longer works. We look into every report and fix what turns out to be wrong.
Dropo is an independent project started and run by YBORG, a UK Garage, Bassline and Speed Garage producer. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Spotify.
Dropo hosts no music and offers no downloads: everything you hear is streamed by Spotify. The site is free to use and carries advertising, described in the Privacy Policy.