Easy Listening

This genre of music is a catchall phrase that includes a sweeping number of musical styles produced since the 1940s. Easy Listening is aptly named because it should be easy on the ears. Characterized by soft string, piano, guitar, or vocal arrangements, Easy Listening music has generally been considered the choice of mainstream middle-aged adults for more than half a century. Key mainstream Easy Listening artists through the ages have been Frank Sinatra, Ray Conniff, Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, Barbara Streisand, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion

Read more: the ListenSmart article on this style.

All Easy Listening genres

• Adult Contemporary
  • Chamber Pop (no definition archived)
• Christian
  • Children's Christian
  • Contemporary Christian
• Easy Listening General
• Lounge (no definition archived)
  • Crooners/Vocal Stylists
• Love Songs
  • Ballads
• Mood Music
• New Age
  • Adult Alternative Country
  • Contemporary Instrumental
  • Meditation
  • New Age Electronic
  • New Classical
  • Relaxation
  • Self-Help
  • Sounds of Nature
  • Space
  • Spiritual
• Singer-Songwriter
• Soft Rock
  • Acoustic Soft Rock