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pop,noise rock,dusseldorf electronic,neo-singer-songwriter,western mass indie,country gospel,persian pop,christmas instrumental,bmore,american folk revival,new beat,smooth soul,traditional english folk,french indie pop,cowpunk,uk garage,belgian rock,swedish rock-and-roll,cyberpunk,psychedelic blues-rock,show tunes,nu disco,lancaster pa indie,essex indie,outsider house,ska punk,tempe indie,emo punk,vintage french electronic,atlanta indie,louisiana blues,canadian rock,olympia wa indie,athens indie,alternative americana,german punk,brooklyn indie,swedish alternative rock,nu skool breaks,irish indie rock,rock en espanol,dark rock,warrington indie,soul blues,chamber folk,folk-pop,classic progressive house,vancouver indie,pop quebecois,visor,nz pop,progressive bluegrass,japanese jazztronica,australian r&b,icelandic electronic,celtic punk,escape room,neofolk,uk reggae,acid rock,icelandic indie,grave wave,

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List of new wave pop artists

Here is a list of new wave pop artists on Spotify, ranked based on popularity, who exemplifies the new wave pop genre. You can find out what new wave pop genre sounds like where you can preview artists or sort them the way you want, just click the headers to sort.

#	name	Popularity	instrumentalness	danceability	energy	acousticness	Happiness	tempo	followers
1	Tears For Fears	73	10	53	77	21	50	117	2828628
2	a-ha	72	6	55	67	14	50	122	2000767
3	George Michael	72	5	63	59	24	54	115	4246934
4	Cyndi Lauper	70	1	64	62	33	60	123	2317541
5	Kylie Minogue	70	14	65	78	12	65	121	1685534
6	Billy Idol	70	3	56	81	6	57	133	1669372
7	Kate Bush	70	8	51	37	58	44	116	1693459
8	Annie Lennox	70	0	52	44	43	34	120	1372085
9	Blondie	69	5	51	74	8	67	133	1267119
10	Heart	69	2	50	58	24	46	125	2286475
11	Tina Turner	69	1	66	69	17	64	111	3358519
12	Kenny Loggins	68	1	56	59	27	58	132	968254
13	Duran Duran	68	4	61	76	10	56	124	2616112
14	Eurythmics	68	5	61	64	9	49	114	1709040
15	Dave Stewart	68	2	61	76	8	48	108	27698
16	Simple Minds	67	11	54	78	7	55	115	1779579
17	Simply Red	67	4	67	68	26	62	106	2115046
18	Wham!	67	3	73	64	21	78	114	2301729
19	Bonnie Tyler	67	0	53	65	25	49	122	1736897
20	The Cardigans	67	1	55	58	14	50	123	995839
21	Sheryl Crow	67	1	59	64	19	59	125	1020672
22	Pet Shop Boys	67	16	59	83	6	55	123	1569639
23	Men At Work	66	3	59	66	17	72	130	1087227
24	The Cars	66	4	65	71	10	75	127	1615783
25	Richard Marx	66	0	52	52	34	39	120	1184673
26	Alphaville	65	8	62	72	9	53	121	705673
27	Starship	65	0	59	81	10	55	123	926068
28	Rick Astley	64	3	67	75	23	73	117	1061326
29	Donna Summer	64	10	68	73	12	72	124	1752360
30	Gloria Estefan	64	0	63	62	39	60	119	701697
31	Huey Lewis & The News	64	0	62	74	10	79	125	1454098
32	Ace of Base	64	11	70	82	4	77	115	678598
33	KC & The Sunshine Band	64	7	71	77	13	84	113	899958
34	Irene Cara	64	2	62	68	14	59	128	377253
35	The Bangles	63	0	57	65	15	68	125	1264318
36	4 Non Blondes	63	0	56	60	13	36	130	438499
37	Billy Ocean	63	2	70	71	23	72	113	1039294
38	Culture Club	63	0	67	64	25	71	112	1428224
39	Pat Benatar	63	0	60	68	12	64	129	1549265
40	Soft Cell	63	3	59	62	26	60	139	608615
41	The Pointer Sisters	63	1	73	73	15	79	124	946788
42	Katrina & The Waves	63	19	57	87	5	84	121	81775
43	Pretenders	62	4	54	73	12	61	125	1376794
44	The Human League	62	6	69	65	13	65	118	1041821
45	Nena	62	1	58	62	13	56	133	373866
46	Erasure	62	5	63	76	9	65	118	942879
47	Roxy Music	61	17	56	70	17	57	116	903972
48	Kim Carnes	61	2	59	57	21	54	117	294884
49	Dexys Midnight Runners	61	4	54	66	41	70	124	220645
50	Cutting Crew	61	2	53	75	7	53	122	374258
51	Laura Branigan	61	6	63	63	35	57	126	636227
52	Belinda Carlisle	61	0	61	79	9	61	124	775464
53	Chris de Burgh	61	4	47	38	50	37	105	496109
54	Natalie Imbruglia	61	0	51	73	13	43	113	883994
55	Spandau Ballet	61	12	63	69	21	61	127	1167088
56	The B-52's	60	7	66	78	4	80	136	953477
57	Everything But The Girl	60	3	60	46	42	53	124	333919
58	Rick Springfield	60	1	60	74	15	68	134	759126
59	Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark	60	25	59	71	15	66	130	705382
60	Eric Carmen	60	10	53	53	37	48	123	320319
61	Berlin	60	1	55	66	5	58	127	479525
62	Village People	60	0	71	81	7	77	126	553586
63	Sinéad O'Connor	60	4	50	46	39	37	113	945825
64	Sophie Ellis-Bextor	59	1	62	78	7	66	121	383692
65	Fine Young Cannibals	59	1	69	75	16	80	131	778717
66	Robert Palmer	59	5	66	68	22	80	117	919715
67	Matthew Wilder	58	2	71	66	14	69	112	38549
68	Paul Young	58	0	60	64	21	67	118	877293
69	Kim Wilde	58	2	60	76	7	61	133	592905
70	Mike + The Mechanics	58	0	60	64	27	53	119	625795
71	Grace Jones	58	15	71	62	9	67	124	299929
72	Yazoo	58	11	77	54	21	63	123	630677
73	Talk Talk	58	27	54	61	24	56	116	483116
74	Gabrielle	58	1	63	63	23	52	112	246085
75	Bronski Beat	58	3	62	62	30	65	130	508447
76	Bryan Ferry	58	27	58	58	42	58	117	538776
77	Lighthouse Family	58	9	62	68	14	64	104	523244
78	Frankie Goes To Hollywood	58	14	54	54	24	40	119	725459
79	Dead Or Alive	58	11	61	91	7	71	126	353927
80	Bette Midler	57	0	49	44	56	41	124	685058
81	A Flock Of Seagulls	57	33	52	77	3	64	136	552161
82	The Buggles	57	18	67	75	15	46	138	98563
83	Level 42	57	5	68	74	23	71	115	635870
84	The Stranglers	57	28	56	73	6	76	130	509711
85	Bananarama	56	16	68	88	7	78	122	712771
86	Suzanne Vega	56	11	59	40	54	51	122	445125
87	Wet Wet Wet	56	0	53	61	32	55	128	459666
88	Tiffany	56	1	57	59	19	44	130	368490
89	The Knack	56	2	53	74	11	73	142	216341
90	The Romantics	56	0	60	85	5	86	137	357514
91	Steve Perry	56	0	43	66	32	32	120	573660
92	Taylor Dayne	56	3	66	81	13	68	119	420055
93	All Saints	56	1	67	70	18	56	113	496424
94	Elvis Costello	56	0	58	50	28	61	126	522683
95	Texas	56	2	58	73	10	62	112	452265
96	Jennifer Rush	55	1	57	74	26	53	121	239870
97	Donna Lewis	55	16	65	48	54	33	110	70031
98	Des'ree	55	0	54	55	45	51	99	237912
99	DEVO	55	19	62	71	13	71	142	504560
100	Miami Sound Machine	55	3	70	59	26	79	130	282878
101	The Beautiful South	55	0	58	54	40	48	130	377269
102	Glenn Frey	55	1	58	52	38	61	123	559109
103	Mr. Mister	55	0	58	59	11	64	122	507646
104	Sheena Easton	55	0	66	52	44	64	117	609389
105	Tori Amos	55	4	49	44	66	43	123	728901
106	C & C Music Factory	54	23	71	82	4	67	118	231828
107	John Waite	54	0	55	54	28	38	131	235627
108	The Go-Go's	54	1	51	86	9	75	155	694201
109	Joe Jackson	54	1	59	61	18	64	123	367300
110	Men Without Hats	54	2	63	82	5	65	130	213690
111	The Psychedelic Furs	54	5	48	78	6	57	131	527050
112	Nik Kershaw	54	2	62	65	24	68	114	292357
113	Lisa Stansfield	54	1	69	67	23	71	111	662104
114	Joan Osborne	53	0	51	60	30	54	119	184292
115	Debbie Gibson	53	6	62	63	28	55	117	513249
116	Wang Chung	53	7	66	70	13	59	114	301194
117	Oleta Adams	53	0	50	48	41	38	101	161189
118	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	53	3	52	64	21	65	136	259451
119	Paula Abdul	53	2	74	74	21	68	116	1015806
120	Wilson Phillips	53	0	61	63	37	53	117	553493
121	Squeeze	53	1	64	66	14	73	127	287072
122	Meredith Brooks	53	0	64	72	19	57	94	117080
123	Murray Head	52	0	71	53	35	54	118	33943
124	Soul II Soul	52	15	71	63	1	56	114	264144
125	The Communards	52	7	59	73	36	65	124	306050
126	Paul Carrack	52	0	63	55	19	59	105	169283
127	Ultravox	52	31	54	74	5	64	135	488755
128	Neneh Cherry	52	0	64	56	14	58	115	150461
129	ABC	52	7	65	75	14	71	119	350609
130	10,000 Maniacs	51	1	57	65	18	57	120	350016
131	Gary Numan	51	13	55	66	7	37	120	422152
132	The Style Council	51	3	56	75	33	67	119	300879
133	Sananda Maitreya	51	0	69	57	24	69	115	448430
134	The Housemartins	51	0	54	58	27	76	124	217369
135	M People	51	2	76	79	4	77	119	237268
136	Go West	51	0	62	71	14	75	127	237251
137	Thompson Twins	51	5	73	70	19	74	113	609400
138	Johnny Hates Jazz	51	2	66	65	20	66	114	196688
139	Milli Vanilli	51	10	79	57	4	69	103	323137
140	Corey Hart	50	2	60	58	31	55	116	265567
141	XTC	50	0	61	75	11	68	125	299521
142	Howard Jones	50	3	61	68	28	63	112	390645
143	Black	50	11	58	40	53	38	102	48758
144	John Parr	50	1	54	79	15	50	123	90631
145	Alison Moyet	49	1	60	60	25	60	116	435382
146	Modern English	49	21	48	71	1	60	142	164848
147	Del Amitri	49	1	55	65	19	64	126	90689
148	Aimee Mann	49	6	51	47	46	40	121	227818
149	Limahl	49	4	63	65	17	73	121	60841
150	Divinyls	49	0	59	74	10	70	126	198562
151	Naked Eyes	49	1	64	73	9	75	128	151429
152	Paula Cole	49	0	51	47	41	43	116	148859
153	k.d. lang	49	1	45	41	46	28	123	359653
154	Patty Smyth	48	0	62	73	23	63	120	57645
155	Deacon Blue	48	1	54	65	15	50	116	204145
156	Tanita Tikaram	48	3	60	38	54	48	115	133699
157	Lisa Loeb	48	0	59	46	53	50	115	197596
158	The Jets	48	1	73	60	17	77	113	280528
159	Jason Donovan	48	0	62	84	14	76	120	67861
160	Liz Phair	48	10	52	58	47	54	122	161932
161	Prefab Sprout	47	1	62	56	25	57	118	189859
162	Big Country	47	10	54	83	8	63	115	227806
163	Climie Fisher	47	0	60	67	20	76	111	64056
164	The Boomtown Rats	47	0	47	75	31	56	129	149190
165	Visage	47	36	57	61	9	55	117	196019
166	Phil Oakey	46	0	0	0	0	0	0	11546
167	Sophie B. Hawkins	46	1	55	64	38	44	107	113753
168	Swing Out Sister	46	8	58	61	36	60	119	138831
169	Ani DiFranco	46	1	59	34	59	39	116	229479
170	Jermaine Stewart	46	7	74	77	11	86	114	22231
171	Nick Kamen	46	0	68	75	16	75	120	29162
172	Boy Meets Girl	46	0	66	83	18	64	118	28612
173	The Lightning Seeds	46	6	56	76	6	67	126	141527
174	Tracey Thorn	45	7	58	46	33	50	117	57782
175	Bic Runga	45	0	58	45	53	44	104	72018
176	Tasmin Archer	45	1	59	58	27	57	103	19432
177	Kajagoogoo	45	10	67	72	11	73	121	230399
178	Lloyd Cole and the Commotions	45	7	63	63	13	58	122	101003
179	Edie Brickell & New Bohemians	45	0	57	57	48	49	96	140943
180	Kirsty MacColl	45	0	51	83	17	75	130	100303
181	Martika	45	3	66	77	23	61	123	200647
182	Exposé	45	3	60	73	16	68	123	264799
183	Samantha Fox	45	5	68	82	9	77	121	309690
184	Boy George	45	4	61	58	28	55	115	525525
185	Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam	45	3	73	70	7	75	123	321936
186	Chesney Hawkes	45	0	62	55	36	67	123	11951
187	Marc Almond	44	4	56	60	20	54	129	79122
188	Jimmy Somerville	44	1	66	78	13	75	126	196764
189	Shawn Colvin	44	1	53	38	58	41	109	126661
190	Huey Lewis	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	3564
191	Eternal	44	0	66	60	11	60	106	97407
192	Aztec Camera	44	1	60	55	33	62	118	120349
193	The Fixx	44	6	61	74	6	71	126	233115
194	Fiction Factory	44	8	63	84	18	74	118	21086
195	Strawberry Switchblade	44	11	61	64	13	70	125	89050
196	Double	44	14	71	58	32	53	117	10639
197	T'Pau	43	0	42	65	27	48	136	186981
198	Beverley Craven	43	0	45	34	60	29	128	23860
199	Thomas Dolby	43	9	65	62	18	63	120	153140
200	Propaganda	43	40	57	72	10	56	123	106679

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