Easy Listening
Easy listening is soft, tuneful and mostly instrumental popular music arranged to be pleasant and undemanding, popular from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Orchestras and small groups play gentle versions of standards, film themes and pop hits, with sweeping strings, light rhythm and little that is loud or sudden. It was also a radio format, sometimes called beautiful music, heard widely in homes, shops and waiting rooms. Compared with lounge it is more orchestral and plainer, and compared with traditional pop it relies less on star singers.
Artists it is known for: Mantovani, Percy Faith, Ray Conniff, Henry Mancini.
- Family
- Classical & Soundtrack
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, 1940s
- Also called
- mood music, beautiful music
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,600 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have easy listening among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Easy Listening artists
Frank Sinatra
Dean Martin
Bing Crosby
Paul Anka
Andy Williams
Julie London
Henry Mancini
Perry ComoThe easy listening artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.