Instrumental music, specifically recorded music based on a compositional process, is at the core of the current study in tandem with the importance it has taken in Quebec’s music industry since 2010. Names like Jean-Michel Blais, Martin Lizotte, Marc-André Pépin and Alexandra Stréliski have boosted the phenomena through popularity. However, positive reactions as well as negative ones are also taken into account regarding the problematic naming of that music and the crossover between classical and popular. Thus, the current study establishes a corpus and analyzes it, then focuses on the major tendencies of that music and the challenges that its circulation has encountered within Quebec media.