Dance music is back! LF SYSTEM and rising East London DJ Eliza Rose lead electronic takeover in UK Top 5

Did dance music ever go away? Up until at least the late 80s it had always included hiphop, funk, R&B and even pop-dance. But for some reason the British record business decided to split it into separate categories while letting rock music include everything including folk bands, plus people like Elton John and Rod Stewart who hadn't released a rock record for decades. This was obviously done so they could desperately try to come out with ridiculous stats like 40% of albums sold were 'rock" when really as anyone with any common sense and merest interest in music knows that rock music had gone the way of jazz did in the mid-1960s when after decades as the dominant musical form surrendered its place to the new music that was starting to be venerated by the critics, that is post-Beatles rock music. I don't know why they bother with this Luddism but the music industry has always seemed slightly uncomfortable with electronic music - probably just the innate conservatism of big business they were probably the same when the advent of the Beatles started to make jazz based forms irrelevant with the young.

In reality dance (electronic) based music has more or less taken over the record industry - aside from a couple of singer-songwriters who themselves are very associated with dance mixes etc. And it's not just about what is obviously the music of the day but the fact that during the jazz years the majority of pop and easy-listening music was based on jazz structures, just as gradually as rock took off pop even became electric guitar based. Now pop and music in general on a mass level is electronic and dance rhythms based.

No rock band has broken through on anything approaching a household name level for about 16 or 17 years. If that doesn't show the supremacy of electronic based music forms I don't know what does.The two most consistently selling selling rock albums in 2022 are Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released at the start of 1977 and Queen's '"Greatest Hits''released in 1981 which because of the comparatively few albums sold these days look as though they will remain in the top 40 albums in perpetuity or until they don't publish an album chart as albums are eventually phased out. It seems musical forms have about 50 years as the cutting edge music de jure before they become antiquated with the young and significantly the critics. Jazz from about the mid 1910s to the mid 1960s then rock music from the mid-60s to the mid 2000s. Electronic (dance) music has gradually become what the young are into arguably starting back in the mid-80s onwards and building from there but not becoming completely dominant till about 15 years ago.

19 weeks of Yo-yoing for CWLCD and now it’s in the top 5!!! Incredible slow burning summer anthem :)

dance music is not “back”. it’s still here, but 90% of it is just the same radio filler.

unless youre talking about newer acts and big names such as drake turning to dance, then that’s just artists trying something new.

What do mean it's "back"? Dance music never left.

93-45-10-2… surely ‘Baddest Of Them All’ could be #1 by next week? 👀

I’d be very shocked if it didn’t get there eventually!

Really good song though, glad to see it keeping up this kind of momentum. :)