String is a genre of Thai music roughly equivalent to western pop. The term is however extremely broad, covering rock, dance music, rap and western-influenced popular music in general. It normally excludes the folk-rock pleng phua cheewit (songs for life). Prominent string artists include:

• 'Bird' Thongchai McIntyre
• Tata Young
• Loso
• Joey Boy
• Lanna Commins
• Big Ass
• Potato
• Bodyslam (band)
• Thaitanium
• Fahrenheit (band)

Music genres