Pop Rock
Pop rock is rock music written with pop's short song lengths, catchy melodies and polished production.
It keeps the guitars, bass and drums of a rock band but puts the tune and the chorus first, with less distortion and fewer long solos than hard rock. The style has existed since the early years of rock and overlaps with soft rock and power pop. What sets it apart is the aim: songs built for radio and for singing along.
Artists it is known for: Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Maroon 5.
- Family
- Rock
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States and United Kingdom, late 1950s
- Also called
- pop/rock
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 28%
About 23,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have pop rock among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Pop Rock artists
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Oasis
The Smashing Pumpkins
Staind
The Cranberries
Stone Temple Pilots
Blur
Audrey Hobert
Artemas
Elliott Smith
The pop rock 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.