Pop Punk
Pop punk combines the fast tempos and loud guitars of punk rock with the catchy melodies and choruses of pop.
Songs are short and quick, built on power chords and bright vocal hooks, with lyrics about growing up, boredom and relationships. Its roots are in 1970s punk bands with a taste for melody, and it became a mainstream style in the 1990s through bands from California. It is cleaner and more tuneful than hardcore punk and lighter in mood than emo.
Artists it is known for: Green Day, Blink-182, The Offspring, Paramore.
- Family
- Punk & Emo
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States and United Kingdom, late 1970s
- Also called
- pop-punk, punk pop
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 19%
About 15,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have pop punk among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Pop Punk artists
Paramore
Green Day
My Chemical Romance
Fall Out Boy
blink-182
Sleeping With Sirens
Modern Baseball
Sum 41
All Time Low
The All-American Rejects
The pop punk 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.