Britpop
Britpop is the mid-1990s British guitar pop movement that celebrated British life and drew on the catchy rock of the 1960s and 1970s.
Bands wrote bright, tuneful, guitar-led songs with big choruses and lyrics about everyday British culture, often sung in local accents. It rose partly as a reaction against American grunge and ran from about 1993 to 1997, with the chart rivalry between Blur and Oasis in 1995 as its best-known moment. It is more upbeat and nostalgic than the alternative rock of the same period.
Artists it is known for: Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Suede.
- Family
- Alternative & Indie
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United Kingdom, early to mid 1990s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 8%
About 6,600 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have britpop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Britpop artists
Oasis
Blur
Black Box Recorder
The Stone Roses
Pulp
Stereophonics
The Verve
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Liam Gallagher
Placebo
The britpop artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.