Modern Power Pop
Modern power pop is a label from Spotify's genre system for newer bands playing power pop: short, melodic guitar songs with big choruses.
Power pop itself took shape in the early 1970s and had its commercial peak in the late 1970s. As the name says, the label points to later waves, such as the alternative bands of the 1990s who returned to the style. The recipe stays the same: crunchy but tuneful guitars, vocal harmonies and short, tightly written songs. It is more melodic than punk, and in the mid 1990s it fed into pop punk.
- Family
- Pop
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A label Spotify coined
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 5%
About 4,100 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have modern power pop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Modern Power Pop artists
Weezer
Jimmy Eat World
Mannequin Pussy
glass beachThe modern power pop artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
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