Pop Urbaine
Pop urbaine is a French-language style that blends pop melodies with rap, R&B and African and Caribbean dance rhythms.
Singers move between rapping and Auto-Tuned singing over beats that draw on afrobeats, zouk, trap and reggaeton. Its roots are in the 2000s, and the label came into use in France around the early 2010s for artists who sat between rap and pop. It aims at a wider audience than French rap, with catchy melodies and a radio-friendly format. The term is debated in France, where some find the word urbaine a vague catch-all.
Artists it is known for: Aya Nakamura, Dadju, Soprano.
- Family
- Pop
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- France, 2000s and 2010s
- Also called
- urban pop
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,100 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have pop urbaine among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Pop Urbaine artists
Jul
GIMS
Ninho
PNL
Werenoi
Tiakola
Damso
PLK
Aya Nakamura
HamzaThe pop urbaine artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
- Wikipédia (French): Pop urbaine
- Paris Match Belgique: Le rap fait passer la pop à la trappe
- Wikipedia: French pop music
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.