Pixie

Pixie is Spotify's own label for a cluster of bright, melodic pop punk and emo pop bands, mostly from the late 2000s and early 2010s.

Nobody outside Spotify's genre system uses the name for a style of music. The bands it groups play fast, glossy guitar pop with high, clean vocals, big sing-along choruses and sometimes synthesizers, aimed at a teenage audience. In plain terms it is a subset of pop punk and emo pop, close to what the music press called neon pop punk.

Family: Punk & Emo
On Spotify: No longer returned by Spotify’s API
What it is: A label Spotify coined
Trackify listeners who play it: 9%

About 7,500 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have pixie among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.