C-Pop
C-pop is Chinese-language pop music, covering Mandarin pop, Cantonese pop and pop in other Chinese languages.
Its main branches are Mandopop, centered on Taiwan and mainland China, and Cantopop from Hong Kong. The roots lie in 1920s Shanghai, where Chinese melodies were first mixed with Western jazz and dance bands. Romantic ballads have long been the core, joined since the 2000s by R&B, hip hop, rock and idol groups. Unlike K-pop, it is a family of regional scenes rather than one centralized industry.
Artists it is known for: Teresa Teng, Jay Chou, Faye Wong, Jacky Cheung.
- Family
- Pop
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A broad heading
- From
- Shanghai, 1920s
- Also called
- chinese pop
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,700 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have c-pop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
C-Pop artists
Jay Chou
WayV
THE 8
JJ Lin
Eric Chou
Eason Chan
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G.E.M.
Faye Wong
Silence WangThe c-pop 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.