List of Europop artists
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Europop refers to a style of pop music that originated in Europe and is generally more dance and trance oriented than American pop. Europop includes Italo disco (a.k.a. ’80s Eurodisco) and later Euro house. The Europop genre originated in the late 1970s and topped the charts throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Some Europop stars came from France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands and the United Kingdom, but most were Swedish in origin. In the 1970s, such groups were primarily popular in continental countries, with the exception of the biggest Europop outfit ever, Swedish 4-piece ABBA, who achieved great success in the UK, where they scored 19 top 10 singles and 9 chart-topping albums, and in North America and Australia. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Roxette and Ace of Base led Europop in American and British mainstream audiences. In the 1990s, pop groups like the Spice Girls, Aqua, Backstreet Boys and singer DJ BoBo were strongly influenced by Europop. In the 2000s, Swedish group Alcazar was one of the most popular Europop artists.
List of Europop artists
- ABBA[1][2][3]
- Ace of Base[1]
- Alcazar
- Alliage
- Alphabeat
- Aqua
- Army of Lovers[1]
- Atomic Kitten
- Bad Boys Blue
- Björn Again
- Clea
- DJ BoBo
- E'voke
- East 17
- Edyta Górniak
- Eiffel 65
- Franky Gee
- Kerli
- Lollipop
- M.O.V.E
- Dmitry Malikov
- Miranda
- MAN-GO
- Modern Talking[4]
- Mónica Naranjo[5]
- Nek[6]
- Sibel Redžep
- Robyn[1]
- Roxette[1]
- S.O.A.P.[7]
- Marie Serneholt
- Linda Sundblad
- Elena Temnikova
- Melissa Tkautz
- A Touch of Class (ATC)[8]
- The Wanted
References
- ^ a b c d e "Pop/Rock » Europop » Euro-Pop". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
- ^ Frith, Simon; Straw, Will; Street, John (2001). The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press. p. 198. ISBN 0-521-55660-0.
The Swedish quartet, Abba, are the most successful ever Europop group.
- ^ Ray, Michael, ed. (2013). Disco, Punk, New Wave, Heavy Metal, and More: Music in the 1970s and 1980s. Britannica Educational Publishing. p. 175. ISBN 978-1-6153-0912-2.
The Swedish Europop quartet ABBA was among the most commercially successful groups in the history of popular music.
- ^ Bitar, Marcelo Fernandez (21 November 1998). "Argentine Biz Worries That '98 Gains Will Deflate in '99". Billboard. 110 (47): 85. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ Birchmeier, Jason. "Mónica Naranjo – Artist Biography". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ^ Bush, John. "Nek – Artist Biography". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ^ Ferro, Charles (27 June 1998). "Newsline..." Billboard. 110 (26): 62. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ Wilson, MacKenzie. "ATC – Artist Biography". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 23 March 2014.