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50 albums · 1974–2023

Music of Serbia, from Belgrade's new wave and the trumpets of Guča to today

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A brass orchestra in white shirts and embroidered sashes parading down the street at the Guča trumpet festival
Boban Marković playing the trumpet on stage in sunglasses and a blue shirtPartibrejkers on stage at night, Zoran Kostić Cane at the microphone under a big video screen
A brass orchestra parading at the trumpet festival in Guča in 2018. Photo: Gumenjak, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Boban Marković on stage at the Festival du Bout du Monde in 2017. Photo: Thesupermat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Partibrejkers with Cane at the microphone, on stage in Budva on New Year's Day 2019. Photo: Miomir Magdevski, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Serbia's popular music has two homes that could hardly be further apart: the clubs of Belgrade and Novi Sad, where the new wave of the Yugoslav years came through Šarlo Akrobata, Idoli, Električni Orgazam, Ekatarina Velika and Partibrejkers while Riblja Čorba and Bajaga filled the halls, and the field at Guča, where every August the brass orchestras compete for the golden trumpet, the tradition Boban Marković, Šaban Bajramović and Goran Bregović carried into the world; around them Đorđe Balašević's songs, the pop-folk of Lepa Brena and Ceca, the nineties of Darkwood Dub and Van Gogh, the hip hop of Beogradski Sindikat and Marčelo, and today Repetitor, Buč Kesidi and Konstrakta. The list has 50 records from 1974 to 2023, one or two by each of the names above and only a small part of what they made; the classical and church singing, the diaspora and most of turbo-folk would each need a list of their own. About 36 hours of music, 5 days of a few records each.

By genre

Rock 19%Folk & Country 10%Punk & New Wave 10%Other 61%
  • Rock 19%
  • Folk & Country 10%
  • Punk & New Wave 10%
  • Other 61%

The genres named most: serbian, rock, folk, hip hop, alternative rock, new wave.

The colours of the covers

A stripe for each cover, in the colour Tidal picks from it, sorted by hue; the greys at the end.

Where the music comes from

Music from 1 country: Serbia 50. The deeper the colour, the more albums: one, two to four, five to nine, ten and more.

The 1970s

The 1980s

The 1990s

The 2000s

The 2010s

The 2020s

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