Pop Emo
Pop emo, more often called emo pop, joins the emotional lyrics of emo to the catchy hooks and polished production of pop punk.
It developed in the United States in the late 1990s and reached the charts in the 2000s. Songs have bright guitars, clean and high lead vocals and large choruses, with words about heartbreak and feeling out of place. It is smoother and more radio-ready than earlier emo and more openly emotional than standard pop punk.
Artists it is known for: Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Jimmy Eat World, Panic! at the Disco.
- Family
- Punk & Emo
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, late 1990s
- Also called
- emo pop, emo pop punk
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 8%
About 6,900 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have pop emo among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Pop Emo artists
Paramore
Sleeping With Sirens
Mayday Parade
The Maine
PVRISThe pop emo 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.