Eurodance
Eurodance is a style of European dance-pop from the late 1980s and 1990s that combines a pounding beat, catchy synth riffs, a sung chorus and rapped verses.
It took off in Western Europe at the end of the 1980s, first in Germany and then in Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy, and peaked in the mid-1990s. A typical track runs at 120 to 150 beats per minute and pairs a female singer on the chorus with a male rapper on the verses, drawing on house, hi-NRG, techno and Eurodisco. It is built around verse-and-chorus songs with strong melodic hooks, and it dominated European charts in the mid-1990s.
Artists it is known for: 2 Unlimited, Snap!, Culture Beat, Haddaway.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Western Europe, late 1980s
- Also called
- Euro-NRG
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,600 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have eurodance among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Eurodance artists
Kylie Minogue
Ace of Base
Modern Talking
Cascada
GIGI D'AGOSTINO
Basshunter
Scooter
DJ HEARTSTRING
Roy Bee
Robin S
The eurodance 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.