Neo-Synthpop
Neo-synthpop is a Spotify label for newer artists who revive the synthesizer-led pop sound of the 1980s.
The name is Spotify's, though the revival it describes is real: interest in synth-pop returned in the late 1990s, and in the 2000s the style had a widespread comeback and commercial success. The songs follow the classic synth-pop pattern, with the synthesizer as the main instrument, and often borrow from indie and electronic dance music. The label separates these acts from the original late 1970s and 1980s wave.
- Family
- Pop
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A label Spotify coined
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 4%
About 3,300 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have neo-synthpop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Neo-Synthpop artists
Crystal Castles
Empire Of The Sun
M83
Metric
Sky Ferreira
CHVRCHESThe neo-synthpop artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
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