Neo Mellow
Neo mellow is a Spotify label for easygoing, acoustic-leaning pop rock by singer-songwriters, mostly from the late 1990s and 2000s.
The name was coined inside Spotify's genre system and is not used elsewhere. It groups warm, mid-tempo songs built on acoustic or clean electric guitar, soft drums and relaxed, soulful vocals, the kind of music that filled adult pop radio in the 2000s. It is a newer cousin of 1970s soft rock, which Spotify files under a similar coined name, mellow gold.
- Family
- Pop
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A label Spotify coined
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 8%
About 6,300 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have neo mellow among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Neo Mellow artists
The Fray
The Script
John Mayer
Jack Johnson
Third Eye Blind
The All-American Rejects
The Goo Goo Dolls
Paolo Nutini
Matchbox Twenty
Keane
The neo mellow artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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