Lo-fi: it’s a term that’s become inescapable in 2024. This vibe-based musical style, which has gained millions of streams via various study and focus playlists, is not to be confused with the ...

Lo-fi hip-hop videos garnered more views in 2020 than in any previous year, according to YouTube Music. But even with more than 1 billion combined views, those numbers don’t tell the full story.

Interest in lo-fi music surged in recent years. According to Google Trends, searches for the term “lo-fi” on YouTube have tripled since 2020.

Lo-Fi Music Characteristics Today’s viral lo-fi music has a few distinct characteristics, according to a MasterClass guide to lo-fi. One characteristic is a drum loop, either of live drums or a ...

A new Google Magenta project (created by an intern!) lets you mix lo-fi, hip-hop music tracks to build a custom music room in your browser, with no musical ability required.

Whether or not you know who started lo-fi hip hop, the rhythms in these YouTube channels sound familiar because they are integral to most music today. “Hip hop beats are the contemporary heartbeat of ...