2010–2019: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic era The
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom's musical output is considered unique in its enormous volume compared to other fandoms' musical subcultures, In 2011, EverFree Radio—a brony music stream—identified nearly 5,000 pony-related songs, and subsequently streamed brony music 24 hours a day. In November 2011, Ken Ashcorp released the song "20 Percent Cooler", a reference to
Rainbow Dash's catchphrase from the episode "
Suited for Success". In December 2011, a number of brony musicians collaborated with the charity Bronies for Good to produce
Smile, a charity album that benefited Children's Cancer Association, which raised $21,000 in less than a month. A brony music festival called Ponystock is featured as part of the convention
Everfree Northwest; which featured popular fandom musicians like Silva Hound (who would later go on to write fan songs inspired by
Hazbin Hotel, including "Addict"). Everfree Network, a brony media network, compiled more than 4,800 pieces of fan music by over 500 different musicians. Throughout this period, the brony music scene witnessed the rise of numerous influential artists spanning multiple genres. Electronic musician duo
The Living Tombstone initially gained popularity making remixes of
Friendship Is Magic. In a 2012 interview with
Rolling Stone, Ingram acknowledged the vibrant fan musician community, noting that "YouTube views of works by The Living Tombstone, Alex S., Eurobeat Brony and more" were "rivaling those of label-signed musicians." Other notable contributors include Replacer, whose song "Finding My Way (Back Home)" gained popularity for its emotional depth, and performers like DustyKatt and Mic the Microphone. In November 2017, Ule Lopez of
Geek Reply placed the two-part fan song and animation
The Moon Rises (Remaster) and
Lullaby for a Princess by Ponyphonic as number 1 on his list of the best brony songs of all time. As part of a fandom endeavor, by September 2019, over 730 gigabytes of brony music was archived in The Pony Music Archive.
2020–present: Post-My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic era Following the
conclusion of Friendship Is Magic in 2019, brony music evolved from remixes of episodes to songs that often have minimal direct references to the show, with some brony musicians using the fandom primarily as a creative outlet rather than drawing directly from show content. One of the earliest examples was the
explicit pony music video
Pony Zone, which used AI-generated vocals of
Twilight Sparkle and
Fluttershy. In June 2021,
The Living Tombstone remix of the 2012 song "''''
" by Odyssey Eurobeat went viral on social media. The song is themed around the eponymous character from Friendship Is Magic
, a mischievous draconequus known for causing chaos and disharmony. Several users who used the song in their videos reported that they had been previously unaware of its My Little Pony'' origin. As of June 2021, the song had garnered over 47 million views on
YouTube (and as of July 2025, over 84 million views) and had been used in over 500,000 videos on
TikTok. wearing a costume of
GIR from
Invader Zim. In the same month, fandom musician Vylet Pony released the song
"", an anthem encouraging people to "
embrace the cringe" and celebrate their authentic interests without shame. David Hall of
Firebird Magazine praised the song and called it "a song filled with love from the very top of its sugary synth lines to the deepest parts of its pounding bass, playfully weaving in references to
Parry Gripp,
Ray William Johnson, and
Skype notifications so that you can’t help but smile to while listening to it." In February 2022, music critic
Anthony Fantano featured the song "i've still got something to teach you" by Vylet Pony on
The Needle Drop, Fantano's online music reviewing stream. The same year, Vylet Pony's album ''can opener's notebook: fish whisperer'' reached the top of
Rate Your Music. In February 2024, the
NBA's
Portland Trail Blazers played "ANTONYMPH" during one of their games. In a August 2024 weekly music review on
The Needle Drop, Fantano praised Vylet Pony's song "where do we begin?" and called it "very sweet on the ears and adorable as hell." In November 2024, Vylet Pony released the
progressive rock concept album Monarch of Monsters, which has been described by Bonnibel Rampertab of
The Daily Campus as her "most ambitious work thus far." As part of a concert at HarmonyCon 2024, PrinceWhateverer performed alongside fellow brony musicians MelodyBrony, 4everfreebrony, and Whirlwind in the rock band My Little Romance—a parody of
My Chemical Romance—and debuted a cover of "
Welcome to the Black Parade." My Little Romance subsequently released an album that features
My Little Pony themed
parody songs of the album
The Black Parade. The final performance of My Little Romance took place at
GalaCon 2025. In 2026, two members of this band were joined by DBPony formed a new band Green Hay—a parody of
Green Day—and released a new album parodying
American Idiot. In March 2025,
BABSCon—a
brony convention in the
San Francisco Bay Area—dismissed its music concert coordinator Pinkaboo three weeks before BABSCon's final edition, which prompted all of its brony musicians to withdraw from the official concert and organize an alternative event called
Pinkaboo's Neighhem that was held immediately after the end of the convention. The alternative concert, which received its funding from
15 (the creator of
15.ai) and a
GoFundMe campaign, drew over a thousand attendees (over half of BABSCon's attendees), and took place at the
Fox Theatre in
Redwood City, California. BABSCon replaced the cancelled concert with a performance by
Mystery Skulls. which reached the top of music aggregate website
Rate Your Music. The over 90-minute release featured collaborations with various artists (such as the narrator of
Disco Elysium) and incorporated samples from video games like
Call of Duty: Black Ops II,
Fortnite, and
Deltarune, as well as references to 2010s
Internet culture and tributes to
Skrillex. Amelia Zollner of
Ringtone Mag praised the album and described it as "almost definitely Vylet's most ambitious album yet," though she acknowledged that some critics dismissed it as "
meme music" due to its heavy use of
irony and video game samples. Kieran Press-Reynolds of online music magazine
Pitchfork gave
Love & Ponystep a 7.8 out of 10 and praised the album's combination of electronic dance music with
My Little Pony. == Reception and analysis ==