Extracted from the DistroKid upload form markup. Genre IDs are the stable
value keys submitted by the form. Both dropdowns share the same ID space.
All 43 base genres are available as a Primary genre. The Secondary dropdown offers the same list except Classical and Soundtrack, which are primary-only.
| Genre | ID | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrobeat | 58 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Afropop | 59 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alternative | 1 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Big Band | 2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Blues | 3 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Children's Music | 4 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Christian/Gospel | 5 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Classical | 33 | ✓ | — |
| Comedy | 6 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contemporary Latin | 61 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Country | 7 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dance | 8 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Electronic | 9 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fitness & Workout | 10 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Folk | 11 | ✓ | ✓ |
| French Pop | 12 | ✓ | ✓ |
| German Folk | 13 | ✓ | ✓ |
| German Pop | 14 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hip Hop/Rap | 16 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Holiday | 17 | ✓ | ✓ |
| J-Pop | 19 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Jazz | 20 | ✓ | ✓ |
| K-Pop | 21 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Latin | 22 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Latin House | 64 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Latin Jazz | 62 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Latin Urban | 56 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Maskandi | 65 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Metal | 15 | ✓ | ✓ |
| New Age | 23 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pop | 24 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pop in Spanish | 63 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Punk | 34 | ✓ | ✓ |
| R&B/Soul | 25 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reggae | 26 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rock | 27 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rock en Español | 60 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Singer/Songwriter | 28 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Soundtrack | 29 | ✓ | — |
| Spoken Word | 30 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vocal | 31 | ✓ | ✓ |
| World | 32 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Xigaza | 66 | ✓ | ✓ |
Totals: 43 primary · 41 secondary (excludes Classical 33, Soundtrack 29)
The subgenre dropdown appears only when Primary = Electronic (ID 9). It is the sole genre with a child subgenre list.
| Subgenre | ID |
|---|---|
| Big Room | 57 |
| Breaks | 35 |
| Chill Out | 36 |
| Deep House | 55 |
| Drum & Bass | 37 |
| Dubstep | 38 |
| Electro House | 39 |
| Electronica / Downtempo | 40 |
| Funk / Soul / Disco | 41 |
| Glitch Hop | 42 |
| Hard Dance | 43 |
| Hardcore / Hard Techno | 44 |
| Hip-Hop / R&B | 45 |
| House | 46 |
| Indie Dance / Nu Disco | 47 |
| Minimal / Deep Tech | 48 |
| Progressive House | 49 |
| Psy-Trance | 50 |
| Reggae / Dancehall / Dub | 51 |
| Tech House | 52 |
| Techno | 53 |
| Trance | 54 |
Total: 22 electronic subgenres
- IDs are non-contiguous and accreted over time; ID 18 is absent entirely, and Metal (15) sits out of alphabetical order with its ID. Treat IDs as stable keys, not as an ordering or completeness signal.
- The public DistroKid "Spotlight" submission page flattens some of these, listing Techno, Electronica/Downtempo, and Hip-Hop/R&B as top-level genres. In the actual upload form they are Electronic subgenres, as shown above.