Disco
Disco is dance music with a steady four-on-the-floor beat, lush arrangements and soaring vocals, made for nightclubs in the 1970s.
It grew up at the turn of the 1970s in clubs in New York City and Philadelphia, where DJs played soul, funk and Latin records for Black, Latino and gay crowds. Typical tracks have a kick drum on every beat, open hi-hats on the offbeat, syncopated bass, strings and horns. Disco is smoother and more orchestrated than funk, and it laid the groundwork for house and modern dance pop.
Artists it is known for: Donna Summer, Bee Gees, Chic, Gloria Gaynor.
- Family
- R&B & Soul
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- New York City and Philadelphia, around 1970
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,700 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have disco among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Disco artists
Bee Gees
Earth, Wind & Fire
The Jacksons
Bonnie Tyler
Boney M.
Kool & The Gang
Minnie Riperton
Donna Summer
Frankie Valli
Cyndi Lauper
The disco 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.