Dance Pop
Dance pop is pop music with a steady club beat, written to work both on the radio and on the dance floor.
It pairs the four-on-the-floor drums, bass lines and synthesizers of dance music with the short song form and big choruses of pop. The style grew out of disco and post-disco in the early 1980s and has stayed in the charts by absorbing house, techno and EDM in turn. Compared with club music proper, dance pop keeps the song and the singer in charge, and tracks are tighter and more tuneful.
Artists it is known for: Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa.
- Family
- Pop
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States and United Kingdom, early 1980s
- Also called
- dance-pop
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 57%
About 47,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have dance pop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Dance Pop artists
Ariana Grande
Bruno Mars
Lady Gaga
Doja Cat
Katy Perry
Sabrina Carpenter
ADÉLA
Charli xcx
Calvin Harris
Britney Spears
The dance 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.