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What Is Electropop? Meaning & Top Artists

The short answer

Electropop is pop music built on electronic production — synthesizers, drum machines and digital textures under catchy, radio-ready melodies. Lady Gaga is often called its queen.

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Genre mix: what Germany streams today

Every day musicpiechart records the genre families behind Spotify's daily charts. The pie is the latest mix; the chart under it shows how that mix moved.

Pop: 30%Hip-Hop & Rap: 23%Alternative & Indie: 19%Electronic & Dance: 9%R&B & Soul: 6%Rock: 5%Other: 8%

What Germany is streaming today

Genre mix of Spotify's daily top 200, by streams, on October 20, 2026 · updated 20 Oct

  • Pop 30%
  • Hip-Hop & Rap 23%
  • Alternative & Indie 19%
  • Electronic & Dance 9%
  • R&B & Soul 6%
  • Rock 5%
  • Other 8%

Genre share over 35 recorded days

September 16 to October 20, 2026. Each band is one genre family's share of the chart's daily streams, stacked to 100%; a missing day leaves a gap.

Stacked area chart of genre-family share of daily streams on the Germany Spotify chart, September 16 to October 20, 2026 Each coloured band is one genre family's share of the chart's daily streams, stacked to 100 percent. Days with no recorded edition leave a gap in every band. Hover a day for its shares; the data table below lists every value. 100% 75% 50% 25% 0% Sep 16 Oct 3 Oct 20 Sep 16, 2026: Pop 24.8%, Hip-Hop & Rap 27.8%, Alternative & Indie 17.5%, Electronic & Dance 9.1%, Rock 6.1%, R&B & Soul 5.0%, Other 9.6% Sep 17, 2026: Pop 25.0%, Hip-Hop & Rap 26.5%, Alternative & Indie 17.7%, Electronic & Dance 9.8%, Rock 6.2%, R&B & Soul 5.3%, Other 9.5% Sep 18, 2026: Pop 21.7%, Hip-Hop & Rap 32.8%, Alternative & Indie 12.6%, Electronic & Dance 8.2%, Rock 5.8%, R&B & Soul 4.0%, Other 14.8% Sep 19, 2026: Pop 24.7%, Hip-Hop & Rap 24.2%, Alternative & Indie 13.5%, Electronic & Dance 8.9%, Rock 6.1%, R&B & Soul 4.4%, Other 18.0% Sep 20, 2026: Pop 23.0%, Hip-Hop & Rap 19.3%, Alternative & Indie 17.8%, Electronic & Dance 7.5%, Rock 6.1%, R&B & Soul 3.9%, Other 22.3% Sep 21, 2026: Pop 22.2%, Hip-Hop & Rap 25.7%, Alternative & Indie 17.6%, Electronic & Dance 8.9%, Rock 5.6%, R&B & Soul 3.5%, Other 16.5% Sep 22, 2026: Pop 24.8%, Hip-Hop & Rap 25.9%, Alternative & Indie 17.4%, Electronic & Dance 9.8%, Rock 5.7%, R&B & Soul 4.6%, Other 11.8% Sep 23, 2026: Pop 25.7%, Hip-Hop & Rap 26.9%, Alternative & Indie 18.3%, Electronic & Dance 9.6%, Rock 6.0%, R&B & Soul 4.3%, Other 9.3% Sep 24, 2026: Pop 28.1%, Hip-Hop & Rap 25.0%, Alternative & Indie 18.1%, Electronic & Dance 9.2%, Rock 6.0%, R&B & Soul 4.3%, Other 9.3% Sep 25, 2026: Pop 33.1%, Hip-Hop & Rap 26.9%, Alternative & Indie 13.1%, Electronic & Dance 9.9%, Rock 5.1%, R&B & Soul 3.9%, Other 8.0% Sep 26, 2026: Pop 33.6%, Hip-Hop & Rap 20.6%, Alternative & Indie 14.1%, Electronic & Dance 9.9%, Rock 7.0%, R&B & Soul 5.2%, Other 9.7% Sep 27, 2026: Pop 32.9%, Hip-Hop & Rap 19.0%, Alternative & Indie 18.5%, Electronic & Dance 9.3%, Rock 6.5%, R&B & Soul 4.8%, Other 9.0% Sep 28, 2026: Pop 30.6%, Hip-Hop & Rap 23.9%, Alternative & Indie 17.8%, Electronic & Dance 9.1%, Rock 6.0%, R&B & Soul 3.8%, Other 8.9% Sep 29, 2026: Pop 31.3%, Hip-Hop & Rap 23.2%, Alternative & Indie 18.3%, Electronic & Dance 9.0%, Rock 6.0%, R&B & Soul 3.5%, Other 8.6% Sep 30, 2026: Pop 30.6%, Hip-Hop & Rap 24.4%, Alternative & Indie 16.5%, Electronic & Dance 9.2%, Rock 5.7%, R&B & Soul 4.2%, Other 9.2% Oct 1, 2026: Pop 31.0%, Hip-Hop & Rap 23.0%, Alternative & Indie 17.7%, Electronic & Dance 8.8%, Rock 5.8%, R&B & Soul 4.7%, Other 9.0% Oct 2, 2026: Pop 29.4%, Hip-Hop & Rap 30.7%, Alternative & Indie 13.4%, Electronic & Dance 7.9%, Rock 5.3%, R&B & Soul 4.5%, Other 8.8% Oct 3, 2026: Pop 32.0%, Hip-Hop & Rap 21.7%, Alternative & Indie 15.8%, Electronic & Dance 8.7%, Rock 7.1%, R&B & Soul 5.0%, Other 9.7% Oct 4, 2026: Pop 30.6%, Hip-Hop & Rap 21.4%, Alternative & Indie 18.6%, Electronic & Dance 8.1%, Rock 5.8%, R&B & Soul 5.3%, Other 10.4% Oct 5, 2026: Pop 29.6%, Hip-Hop & Rap 24.3%, Alternative & Indie 18.2%, Electronic & Dance 8.2%, Rock 5.7%, R&B & Soul 5.0%, Other 9.0% Oct 6, 2026: Pop 29.6%, Hip-Hop & Rap 23.2%, Alternative & Indie 18.7%, Electronic & Dance 8.6%, Rock 5.3%, R&B & Soul 5.4%, Other 9.1% Oct 7, 2026: Pop 30.3%, Hip-Hop & Rap 23.2%, Alternative & Indie 18.1%, Electronic & Dance 8.3%, Rock 5.3%, R&B & Soul 5.5%, Other 9.3% Oct 8, 2026: Pop 30.0%, Hip-Hop & Rap 22.8%, Alternative & Indie 19.3%, Electronic & Dance 8.1%, Rock 6.3%, R&B & Soul 5.4%, Other 8.2% Oct 9, 2026: Pop 28.5%, Hip-Hop & Rap 29.0%, Alternative & Indie 16.9%, Electronic & Dance 8.3%, Rock 5.4%, R&B & Soul 4.8%, Other 7.1% Oct 10, 2026: Pop 31.1%, Hip-Hop & Rap 23.2%, Alternative & Indie 17.3%, Electronic & Dance 8.1%, Rock 6.0%, R&B & Soul 5.6%, Other 8.7% Oct 11, 2026: Pop 30.1%, Hip-Hop & Rap 20.5%, Alternative & Indie 22.0%, Electronic & Dance 8.0%, Rock 6.2%, R&B & Soul 5.4%, Other 7.8% Oct 12, 2026: Pop 27.8%, Hip-Hop & Rap 26.0%, Alternative & Indie 18.8%, Electronic & Dance 8.3%, Rock 5.7%, R&B & Soul 5.2%, Other 8.0% Oct 13, 2026: Pop 28.0%, Hip-Hop & Rap 25.6%, Alternative & Indie 19.3%, Electronic & Dance 8.3%, Rock 5.4%, R&B & Soul 5.4%, Other 8.0% Oct 14, 2026: Pop 28.8%, Hip-Hop & Rap 25.8%, Alternative & Indie 18.2%, Electronic & Dance 8.4%, Rock 5.4%, R&B & Soul 5.3%, Other 8.1% Oct 15, 2026: Pop 29.8%, Hip-Hop & Rap 24.9%, Alternative & Indie 18.1%, Electronic & Dance 8.7%, Rock 5.4%, R&B & Soul 5.4%, Other 7.7% Oct 16, 2026: Pop 28.1%, Hip-Hop & Rap 31.1%, Alternative & Indie 14.6%, Electronic & Dance 8.9%, Rock 5.3%, R&B & Soul 4.7%, Other 7.4% Oct 17, 2026: Pop 33.1%, Hip-Hop & Rap 21.5%, Alternative & Indie 17.2%, Electronic & Dance 9.0%, Rock 5.5%, R&B & Soul 6.2%, Other 7.4% Oct 18, 2026: Pop 30.9%, Hip-Hop & Rap 20.0%, Alternative & Indie 21.4%, Electronic & Dance 8.3%, Rock 6.8%, R&B & Soul 4.9%, Other 7.8% Oct 19, 2026: Pop 31.0%, Hip-Hop & Rap 23.5%, Alternative & Indie 19.0%, Electronic & Dance 8.0%, Rock 5.5%, R&B & Soul 4.9%, Other 8.0% Oct 20, 2026: Pop 30.5%, Hip-Hop & Rap 23.0%, Alternative & Indie 18.8%, Electronic & Dance 8.6%, Rock 5.3%, R&B & Soul 5.5%, Other 8.4%
  • Pop 30.5% · +5.6 pts
  • Hip-Hop & Rap 23.0% · -4.8 pts
  • Alternative & Indie 18.8% · +1.3 pts
  • Electronic & Dance 8.6% · -0.6 pts
  • Rock 5.3% · -0.8 pts
  • R&B & Soul 5.5% · +0.5 pts
  • Other 8.4% · -1.2 pts
Genre-share data table
Genre-family share of daily streams, by day
Day PopHip-Hop & RapAlternative & IndieElectronic & DanceRockR&B & SoulOther
Oct 20, 2026 30.5%23.0%18.8%8.6%5.3%5.5%8.4%
Oct 19, 2026 31.0%23.5%19.0%8.0%5.5%4.9%8.0%
Oct 18, 2026 30.9%20.0%21.4%8.3%6.8%4.9%7.8%
Oct 17, 2026 33.1%21.5%17.2%9.0%5.5%6.2%7.4%
Oct 16, 2026 28.1%31.1%14.6%8.9%5.3%4.7%7.4%
Oct 15, 2026 29.8%24.9%18.1%8.7%5.4%5.4%7.7%
Oct 14, 2026 28.8%25.8%18.2%8.4%5.4%5.3%8.1%
Oct 13, 2026 28.0%25.6%19.3%8.3%5.4%5.4%8.0%
Oct 12, 2026 27.8%26.0%18.8%8.3%5.7%5.2%8.0%
Oct 11, 2026 30.1%20.5%22.0%8.0%6.2%5.4%7.8%
Oct 10, 2026 31.1%23.2%17.3%8.1%6.0%5.6%8.7%
Oct 9, 2026 28.5%29.0%16.9%8.3%5.4%4.8%7.1%
Oct 8, 2026 30.0%22.8%19.3%8.1%6.3%5.4%8.2%
Oct 7, 2026 30.3%23.2%18.1%8.3%5.3%5.5%9.3%
Oct 6, 2026 29.6%23.2%18.7%8.6%5.3%5.4%9.1%
Oct 5, 2026 29.6%24.3%18.2%8.2%5.7%5.0%9.0%
Oct 4, 2026 30.6%21.4%18.6%8.1%5.8%5.3%10.4%
Oct 3, 2026 32.0%21.7%15.8%8.7%7.1%5.0%9.7%
Oct 2, 2026 29.4%30.7%13.4%7.9%5.3%4.5%8.8%
Oct 1, 2026 31.0%23.0%17.7%8.8%5.8%4.7%9.0%
Sep 30, 2026 30.6%24.4%16.5%9.2%5.7%4.2%9.2%
Sep 29, 2026 31.3%23.2%18.3%9.0%6.0%3.5%8.6%
Sep 28, 2026 30.6%23.9%17.8%9.1%6.0%3.8%8.9%
Sep 27, 2026 32.9%19.0%18.5%9.3%6.5%4.8%9.0%
Sep 26, 2026 33.6%20.6%14.1%9.9%7.0%5.2%9.7%
Sep 25, 2026 33.1%26.9%13.1%9.9%5.1%3.9%8.0%
Sep 24, 2026 28.1%25.0%18.1%9.2%6.0%4.3%9.3%
Sep 23, 2026 25.7%26.9%18.3%9.6%6.0%4.3%9.3%
Sep 22, 2026 24.8%25.9%17.4%9.8%5.7%4.6%11.8%
Sep 21, 2026 22.2%25.7%17.6%8.9%5.6%3.5%16.5%
Sep 20, 2026 23.0%19.3%17.8%7.5%6.1%3.9%22.3%
Sep 19, 2026 24.7%24.2%13.5%8.9%6.1%4.4%18.0%
Sep 18, 2026 21.7%32.8%12.6%8.2%5.8%4.0%14.8%
Sep 17, 2026 25.0%26.5%17.7%9.8%6.2%5.3%9.5%
Sep 16, 2026 24.8%27.8%17.5%9.1%6.1%5.0%9.6%

Pop leads the genre mix on Germany's Spotify daily chart with 30.5% of the day's streams (5.4M plays), ahead of Hip-Hop & Rap at 23.0% and Alternative & Indie at 18.8% on October 20, 2026. Across the 35 recorded days from September 16 to October 20, 2026, Pop gained the most share, up 5.6 points to 30.5% of streams, while Hip-Hop & Rap slipped the most, down 4.8 points to 23.0%. Electropop sits in the Pop family, which holds 30.5% of that chart's streams (+5.6 pts over the window). Shares are stream-weighted: every play of a song on Germany's Spotify daily chart counts once, credited to its lead artist's genre family. Every song that Spotify can classify counts; every family outside the biggest six is grouped with them as Other. The figures come from spotify-top.com's daily charts, recorded once a day by Music Pie Chart.

Top Electropop artists on Spotify

Artists in our catalogue tagged with this genre, ranked by Spotify popularity.

  1. Whethan

  2. Icona Pop

  3. La Roux

  4. Snakehips

  5. AlunaGeorge

  6. Madeon

  7. ROZES

  8. SHAED

Pop: 53%Electronic & Dance: 33%Alternative & Indie: 7%Hip-Hop & Rap: 7%
53%Pop

Beyond Electropop

What else do Electropop artists play?

The other genre families Electropop's top artists on Spotify are tagged with.

  • Pop 53%
  • Electronic & Dance 33%
  • Alternative & Indie 7%
  • Hip-Hop & Rap 7%

Everything about Electropop

What Is Considered Electropop?

Electropop is the futuristic cousin of Pop music, where catchy melodies blend with electronic beats. It's the sound of innovation, energy, and an irresistible electric groove.

What Makes A Song Electropop?

Creating an Electropop song is all about blending electronic elements like synthesizers and drum machines with pop music melodies. When you hear a song with irresistible beats and a touch of digital magic, you're likely listening to Electropop.

Who Is The Queen Of Electropop?

Lady Gaga is the queen of Electropop music with her powerful vocals, extravagant style, and boundary-pushing music. Her chart-topping hits like "Poker Face" and "Bad Romance" are excellent Electropop examples.

Who Are The Pioneers Of Electropop?

The artists who laid the foundation for Electropop music include:

  • Kraftwerk with their catchy tunes like "The Model" and "Autobahn".

  • Gary Numan with his "Cars".

  • Depeche Mode with hits like "Just Can't Get Enough" and "Enjoy the Silence".

  • New Order with the "Blue Monday" song.

  • Yazoo (Yaz) with the timeless "Don't Go" gem.

  • Pet Shop Boys with their hits like "West End Girls".

Some of the modern electropop bands and female electropop artists include:

  • Dua Lipa, with her hits like "Don't Start Now" and "Levitating"

  • The Chainsmokers, with hits like "Closer"

  • Billie Eilish

  • Ariana Grande, with her track "Rain On Me"

  • Halsey, with her hits like "Without Me"

  • Zedd, with tracks like "Clarity" and "The Middle".

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