| — | RockLoud, guitar-shaped, and still standing | — win | — match wins |
| — | Hip HopThe words doing the heavy lifting | — win | — match wins |
| — | JazzRules learned, then broken on purpose | — win | — match wins |
| — | ClassicalFour hundred years of head start | — win | — match wins |
| — | ElectronicBuilt rather than played | — win | — match wins |
| — | PopEngineered to be completely unavoidable | — win | — match wins |
| — | MetalPrecision hiding underneath the volume | — win | — match wins |
| — | CountryThree chords and a story that lands | — win | — match wins |
| — | Rhythm and BluesEverything sits just behind the beat | — win | — match wins |
| — | ReggaeThe offbeat carries the whole thing | — win | — match wins |
| — | PunkTwo minutes, three chords, no permission asked | — win | — match wins |
| — | BluesTwelve bars and endless variations | — win | — match wins |
| — | FolkOne voice, one instrument, no studio | — win | — match wins |
| — | SoulThe take where the singer stops being careful | — win | — match wins |
| — | FunkEverything exists to serve the groove | — win | — match wins |
| — | AmbientMusic you notice only when it stops | — win | — match wins |
| — | DiscoFour on the floor and strings on top | — win | — match wins |
| — | HouseA kick drum and a room that agrees | — win | — match wins |
| — | TechnoMachine music with no interest in choruses | — win | — match wins |
| — | Drum and BassBreakbeats at twice the sensible speed | — win | — match wins |
| — | TranceBuilds that take eight minutes to pay off | — win | — match wins |
| — | GrungeLoud, tuned down, and deliberately unpolished | — win | — match wins |
| — | Indie RockSmall rooms, jangly guitars, big feelings | — win | — match wins |
| — | GospelThe only genre built for a whole room to sing | — win | — match wins |
| — | BluegrassAcoustic instruments played at impossible speed | — win | — match wins |
| — | SalsaPercussion first, and the horns come to argue | — win | — match wins |
| — | AfrobeatsPolyrhythm you can dance to without trying | — win | — match wins |
| — | K-PopEngineered to the millisecond and unashamed of it | — win | — match wins |
| — | OperaNo microphone, no safety net, full orchestra | — win | — match wins |
| — | SkaUpstroke guitar and a horn section in a hurry | — win | — match wins |
| — | SwingBig band music written to move a ballroom | — win | — match wins |
| — | Bossa NovaQuiet guitar, unhurried voice, complicated chords | — win | — match wins |