The point is that there were less dance-pop hits in 2012 than in 2011, and even less in 2013, and even less yet again in 2014 (and 2015 looks to continue the trend). Obviously there were big dance songs in 2012, but not as many as in 2011. 2015 will probably have a couple of big dance hits too, but it's not going to be like how it used to be.

Not to mention, a lot of the "dance" songs which have been big aren't really proper dance music (at least not like the Calvin Harris/David Guetta style music that used to dominate). For example Waves and Prayer In C are minimal and acoustic, Turn Down For What is more of a trap/hip hop song, Latch is chilled out and suitable for urban AC radio, Wake Me Up and Hey Brother are folk/country influenced, Summertime Sadness got half of its chart points every week from the original version of the song, Get Lucky is a disco song, and so on.

EDM grew weaker Adele ha power

Bruno had two non EDM songs go number one months b4 her though?

They wouldn't admit that Bruno had already Just the way you are in 2010 which was the best selling digital song of 2011 with more than 12m sold.

You listed all EDM songs. The OP doesn't list Adele as the demise as dance-pop. It just says EDM, and house, trap, & dance-pop are all subgenres within EDM.

I like Bruno Mars but do you think he would have released IWIWYM if it wasn't for SLY? Do you think it would have hit #1 is SLY didn't splash into the scene before it?

Anyways JTWYA may be non-EDM but it is radio friendly, its a very pop song Songs like RITD and SLY were not being played on the radio much beforehand The fact SLY became the first piano ballad to hit #1 speaks volume

EDM and Dance-pop kinda go hand in hand (albeit some slight alterations) does it not?

People were already tired of EDM, she's just a breakthrough artist from that transition period.

All trends have exceptions. Of course there's not going to NEVER BE ANOTHER EDM HIT EVER AGAIN IN HISTORY. But the 2009-2011 trend toward EDM made a clear shift around the time Adele took over the US.

It's best not to use the term "EDM" at all since it's confusing and doesn't really mean anything. This thread is clearly referring to the dance-pop trend (songs like Party Rock Anthem, We Found Love, Poker Face, Womanizer, Disturbia, Starships, Dynamite, Forever, Closer, Clarity, Summer, etc.).

10 years ago nobody would've considered trap as a sub-genre of dance music, the only reason people say it is today is because some producers like Skrillex started doing trap songs a few years ago. If trap is EDM, then Juicy J, T.I., A$AP Rocky, Tyga, Kanye West, etc. are "EDM" artists. It's certainly not the same kind of music that Taio Cruz, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Flo Rida, Pitbull were doing a few years ago, that's for sure. Not part of that trend imo, the only trap song that was big in 2011 that I can think of was No Hands.

And house music went mainstream back in the 90's, a very long time before the term "EDM" even existed. The current house trend is a different trend started by Disclosure/Julio Bashmore/etc in 2012.

If you think disco is "EDM", then that makes Barry White, the Bee Gees, Michael Jackson, etc. "EDM" artists. It's music that you can dance to, it sounds great in clubs, but it's a very different style of music to what was dominating in 2011. It's not part of that trend either, there weren't any disco hits in 2009-2011. It's a different trend.

The decline of dance-pop has actually lead to other forms of dance/club music to get a chance in the mainstream now. In the dance-pop domination years there just wasn't any room for drum & bass or trap or house or disco or anything else to get any shine.

I dont think she has impact beyond releasing ballads makes you relavant and acclaimed

Where? EDM is still a front-runner in the UK, so I don't think she ended the trend there. So yeah, no.

there were more edm songs in the top 5 billboard charts 2012 than there were in 2010. Adele debuted in 2011, I dont understand the point of this. We Found Love was probably the peaking edm song and that debuted like 6 months after Rolling In The Deep. Adele isnt Nirvana, she didnt really shift anything.

dance pop will be back in a few years from now... Probably towards the end of this decade