British pop has been one of the two main centers of pop since the 1960s, when the Beatles and other groups reached audiences worldwide. It has no single sound, running from guitar groups and synth-pop to girl groups, boy bands, soul-influenced singers and acoustic songwriters. It often overlaps with UK dance music and R&B, and British singles charts and radio have long shaped which songs break through.
Artists it is known for: The Beatles, Spice Girls, Adele, Ed Sheeran.
- Family
- Pop
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- United Kingdom, 1950s onward
- Also called
- british pop
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 19%
About 15,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have uk pop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
UK Pop artists
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Adele
Dua Lipa
Ed Sheeran
Ellie Goulding
Sam Smith
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James Arthur
Little Mix
Lewis CapaldiThe uk pop 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.