It ranges from guitar-based pop rock and piano ballads to electronic and rap-influenced chart songs. German-language pop got a major boost from the Neue Deutsche Welle, the German new wave of the early 1980s, and returned strongly in the 2000s. It is separate from Schlager, the older style of light, sentimental songs with simple, catchy melodies.
Artists it is known for: Nena, Herbert Grönemeyer, Mark Forster, Lena.
- Family
- Pop
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Germany
- Also called
- deutschpop
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,600 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have german pop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
German Pop artists
CRO
Milky Chance
Modern Talking
Die Ärzte
Sido
Wir sind Helden
01099
Provinz
AnnenMayKantereit
BerqThe german pop artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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