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Glitchcore

Glitchcore is an online microgenre close to hyperpop, built on stuttering edits, pitched-up vocals and deliberately broken-sounding digital effects.

Songs are frantic, with heavy 808 bass, stop-start hi-hats borrowed from trap, and voices that are Auto-Tuned, chopped and shifted in pitch so they sound like a glitching file. It grew among young producers sharing music on SoundCloud around the end of the 2010s and spread through short videos with fast, flashing, glitchy edits. It overlaps heavily with digicore and hyperpop, and the three names are often used for the same music.

Family
Pop
On Spotify
No longer returned by Spotify’s API
What it is
A genre
From
United States and online, late 2010s
Trackify listeners who play it
7%

About 5,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have glitchcore among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.

Glitchcore artists

The glitchcore 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.