Talk:2012 in American music

United States: Music / History Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Music portal This article is supported by WikiProject American music (assessed as Low-importance).
	This article is supported by WikiProject U.S. history (assessed as Low-importance).

Years Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Years, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Years on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.YearsWikipedia:WikiProject YearsTemplate:WikiProject YearsYears articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

History Low‑importance

	History portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the subject of History on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.HistoryWikipedia:WikiProject HistoryTemplate:WikiProject Historyhistory articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Lists Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.ListsWikipedia:WikiProject ListsTemplate:WikiProject ListsList articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Adding non-American musicians

Since the name of this article mentions the word American, I just removed every single new release by artists who are not American nor are from the United States. If we're going to list albums by bands like Black Sabbath or Dragonforce, we should create the 2012 in British music article and list their own albums. Anyone agree? 76.191.133.247 (talk) 22:02, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No. Nationality does not matter. And "United States" and "American" are the same thing, just so you know. And besides that, if you look at these same articles from past years, you'll see many non-American bands on those as well, so good luck reverting those if you're so gung-ho on this idea. In short, don't touch this article again, please. 71.249.246.218 (talk) 13:46, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In addition, that doesn't mean 2012 in British music can't be created, but those artists belong here too. 71.249.246.218 (talk) 14:34, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to me that American music is the music that is popular in the United States, even if it's Adele; British music is the music that is popular in Great Britain, even if it's Jay-Z. The 2012 in (Nationality) Music page should reflect that. Listmeister (talk) 02:44, 11 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Things that would apply to all country pages should be listed in 2012 in music, like deaths for example. Otherwise, Robin Gibb and Whitney Houston should be listed under 2012 deaths for all "2012 in Fooian music" articles. Don't need so much repetition. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 17:05, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Adding non-"mainstream" music to timeline

Subject says it all; I feel like the "scheduled events" timeline is too centered on one genre of music (Mainly mainstream pop). As a supposedly unbiased article, I feel like this page should have more information about other genres. --Natalie Vita (talk) 21:01, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

So, add more information about other genres. Information about popular music is going to be added first because popular music is, by definition, the most popular in terms of number of people who listen to it. That's not bias, it's just what's been written about. Listmeister (talk) 02:49, 11 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]