The top three global music acts last year were Drake, bts (a South Korean boy band) and Ed Sheeran.

去年全球排名前三的艺人分别是德雷克(Drake)、防弹少年团(韩国男子组合)和艾德·希兰(Ed Sheeran)。

In summer 2012, Korean pop music, or K-pop, took a huge leap forward in the global music industry.

2012年夏天，韩国流行音乐(K-pop)在全球音乐产业中取得了巨大的飞跃。

To make K-pop a truly global music genre, it needs to become more accepting and understanding of other cultures.

为了使韩国流行音乐成为真正的全球音乐类型，它需要更多地接受和理解其他文化。

The following year, Psy started a global Gangnam Style craze, setting several records in global music charts and rankings.

次年，Psy 在全球掀起了《江南 Style》热潮，在全球音乐排行榜上创下多项纪录。

Korean pop K-pop, for example, merges global music trends with a distinctly Korean flavor, achieving colossal international success.

例如，韩国流行音乐 K-pop 将全球音乐趋势与鲜明的韩国风味融为一体，在国际上取得了巨大的成功。

For in the rhythms of Africa lies not just the history of a continent but the future of global music.

因为非洲的节奏不仅蕴含着非洲大陆的历史，也蕴含着全球音乐的未来。

The pop culture behemoth that is the global music industry, while voraciously consuming trends, often neglects to acknowledge its debts.

作为流行文化巨头的全球音乐产业，在贪婪地消费潮流的同时，却常常忽视承认自己的债务。

African music is no longer relegated to the exotic peripheries but is claiming its rightful place at the centre stage of global music.

非洲音乐不再被置于异国边缘，而是在全球音乐的中心舞台上占据了应有的地位。

(The South spawned trap, a subgenre of rap music characterised by booming drums with melodic, auto-tuned vocals.) American hip-hop has always been inspired by other, global music: early records sampled Ethiopian jazz.

(南方嘻哈催生了trap音乐，trap是说唱音乐的一个子流派，特点是低沉的鼓声和有旋律的、经过修音的人声。)美国嘻哈音乐一直受到其他国家音乐的启发：早期唱片采样了埃塞俄比亚爵士乐。