Today, lo-fi music is best known as a subgenre of downtempo electronic music containing hip-hop beats with a relaxed aesthetic that has exploded in popularity as a genre to work or study to.

The popular channel streams lo-fi hip-hop beats, and it’s particularly known for a livestream featuring an anime girl studying for a test on a loop. On Monday, the account was restored ...

Lo-fi is a genre that typically blends elements of hip-hop, jazz and dream pop through a stripped-down production process that centers the raw material of a song to create a smooth, relaxed sound.

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.