Protopunk
An older Spotify microgenre that Spotify’s API no longer returns, in the Punk & Emo family.
- Family
- Punk & Emo
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,300 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have protopunk among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Protopunk artists
The Velvet Underground
The Kinks
The Stranglers
Alice Cooper
T. Rex
The Stooges
Iggy Pop
Patti Smith
The Animals
The protopunk artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.