I'll try to avoid injecting too much opinion, since I really don't like some of the genres I'll be discussing. The artists listed with no comments are those about whom I know little to nothing, but have heard of regularly. The only blatantly opinionated entries will be my bracketed 1-5-scale rating. No offense is intended. One needn't like ALL kinds of music.
A bracketed number indicates my 1-5 rating. Bolded entries indicate they're part of my music library.
1: avoid it -it's either dull or irritating --enough to make me turn it off.
2: unimpressive, but it's not quite enough to make me change the radio-station
3: I might listen to this on purpose, but not normally buy it. I'd pick it to play if I owned a radio station.
4: This stuff is good enough to buy for my personal collection.
5: I'll buy this, and eagerly await future releases -maybe even buy loaner-copies.