What is Furry Music?

Furry Music is anything that wants to call itself "Furry Music".

Furry music is a booming scene of niche musicians, creating music of many styles and genres from all over the world.

The purpose of asking "What is furry music?" is to find unique perspectives, voices, sounds, and communities through music and furries.

Ready to start listening?

Intro to Furry Music

Intro to Furry Music is a curated playlist by trickyStoop, an indie tape label for furry musicians.

The playlist rotates its selection every few months, spotlighting new and under-appreciated songs by furry musicians.

Spotify

YouTube

Need some recommendations?

What Is Furry Music? on RateYourMusic

Older album recommendations I've written about various parts of the furry music sphere.

See the live list at https://rateyourmusic.com/list/GoodnightGirl/what-is-furry-music/

Twitter recommendations

Wanna learn more?

Below are various resources discussing furries, furry music, what it consists of, and how the scene came to be.

What is "furry"?

Watch The Fandom documentary series on YouTube for more information.

What makes a musician "furry"?

Discussed on this website's blog.

Rise of Furry Music on YouTube

This panel covers furry music as we know it now, its history, and some statistics about the scene in early 2024.

Genres

A common misconception is that furry music is mostly one (or two) genres, due to the popularity of certain artists in both furry culture and greater nerd culture.

You don't have to look far to find music that isn't breakcore, dance music, or comedy rock.

Take a look at this chart of genres made by furries, sampling 567 furry musicians:

A list of genres and the count of musicians found making that genre. Each genre has a description of subgenres included. Here are the numbers for each genre: Ambient - 12. Classical - 30. Electronic - 205. Experimental - 21. Funk - 3. Hip-hop - 31. Jazz - 4. Metal - 38. Pop - 69. Rnb - 2. Rock - 99. Singer-songwriter 24. Various - 26. A pie graph showing the above data as percentages. Electronic is at 36.3%, Rock at 17.6%, Pop at 12.2%, Metal at 6.7%, Hip-hop at 5.5%, Classical at 5.3%, Various at 4.6%, Singer-songwriter at 4.3%, Experimental at 3.7%, all others are too small to be given a label on the chart.

Electronic, Rock, and Pop seem to be the most popular categories of music made by furries, each reigning over 12% of the listed furry musicians. Other genres like Metal, Hip-hop, Classical, and Singer-songwriter all have established niches in the furry music scene.

The primary difference between Electronic and Pop (for this chart) was if the music predominantly featured original vocals. If it was instrumental, or featured rough vocal sampling, it was assigned as Electronic.

More is being done to help make this genre information meaningful, looking at clarifying what makes up Electronic music in the furry fandom, and being on the lookout for communities not yet uncovered in lesser-known genres.

Locations

This information is slightly outdated, but gives a general gist of where this data is coming from.

The majority of artists I've catalogued are from the United States, or do not list a country/location on their public profiles.

Data sourced from the HUGE List of Furry Musicians. Charts last updated 2024-03-07.

History

Coming soon.

Early furry musicians like Chama C. Fox (classical music), Bob Drake (rock music), and greatFox (comedy rock) were some of the first known musicians contributing music as members of the furry fandom.

Contact

If you're interested in learning more, or asking questions about furry music, shoot me an email at efmc.music /"@"\ gmail.com

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