Splice x MIDiA Sounds of 2026 House on the rise

We zoom in on the trends and microtrends driven by the music industry’s biggest fans and most influential tastemakers: creators. Turn page after page of trends unfolding in real-time and see how Splice’s dataset is the barometer for the state of music today.

We are at a turning point in music. Taste has become so fragmented that mainstream culture is being replaced by highly diversified listening habits and the blurring of musical styles across genres and scenes. Perhaps nothing encapsulates this more than Splice’s 2025 data.

It is clear people want to dance, with house music being Splice’s biggest growth story of 2025. But how they want to dance is the question. Despite the immense growth of melodic-based Afro house – Splice’s Sound of the Year – hard and uptempo genres such as speed garage have their own compelling growth stories. This is indicative of the diversity of music being made and consumed by the creator community. We see this in pop’s growth stories too, which are focused on genre-bending styles like bedroom pop, hyperpop, and indie pop. Even Splice’s leading genre of hip hop is undergoing its own process of fragmentation, with growth across disparate subgenres such as rage, trap EDM, and boom bap.

This year, more than ever, we are seeing a world where the biggest trends are reaching a subset of people. In an industry now dominated by microtrends, it is nearly impossible for a single person to keep track of them all. With Splice’s data, however, we can zoom in on the trends and microtrends driven by the music industry’s biggest fans and most influential tastemakers: creators. Get ready to dive into the trends unfolding in real-time at the point of creation and see how Splice’s dataset is the barometer for the state of music today.

Note: Data analysed in this report covers the period 1 January-30 September for 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.