Soft Pop
Soft pop is a loose name for gentle, quiet pop with mellow arrangements and tender vocals; on Spotify it is used as a genre label.
In the 1960s the name was used for the style now called sunshine pop; today it is a loose description. The music is slow to mid-tempo, built on piano, acoustic guitar or light synths, with soft drums or none and a close, breathy voice. Lyrics are usually about love and heartbreak. It is close to soft rock and adult contemporary, but leans toward modern pop production rather than a band sound.
- Family
- Pop
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A label Spotify coined
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 9%
About 7,700 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have soft pop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Soft Pop artists
Adele
Ed Sheeran
Charlie Puth
Sam Smith
James Arthur
Lewis Capaldi
Train
Jason Mraz
John Legend
Christina Perri
The soft pop artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
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