K-Pop
K-pop is popular music from South Korea, best known for idol groups that combine catchy songs with tightly rehearsed dance routines and striking visuals.
Songs mix pop, hip hop, R&B and electronic dance music, with lyrics in Korean and some English. The modern form dates from the 1990s, when Seo Taiji and Boys brought rap and dance beats into Korean pop and entertainment companies began training performers, sometimes for years, before debut. What sets it apart is that system: music, choreography, videos and fan activities are planned together.
Artists it is known for: BTS, Blackpink, Girls' Generation, EXO.
- Family
- K-Pop
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- South Korea, 1990s
- Also called
- korean pop, kpop
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 18%
About 15,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have k-pop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
K-Pop artists
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BTS
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TWICE
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TOMORROW X TOGETHERThe k-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.