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List of synthpop artists

Here is a list of synthpop artists on Spotify, ranked based on popularity, who exemplifies the synthpop genre. You can find out what synthpop 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	Billy Idol	70	3	56	81	6	57	133	1669372
4	Annie Lennox	70	0	52	44	43	34	120	1372085
5	Duran Duran	68	4	61	76	10	56	124	2616112
6	Modern Talking	68	3	70	81	16	78	117	1281795
7	Eurythmics	68	5	61	64	9	49	114	1709040
8	Pet Shop Boys	67	16	59	83	6	55	123	1569639
9	Simple Minds	67	11	54	78	7	55	115	1779579
10	Wham!	67	3	73	64	21	78	114	2301729
11	New Order	66	31	59	84	3	69	129	1940198
12	The Cars	66	4	65	71	10	75	127	1615783
13	Alphaville	65	8	62	72	9	53	121	705673
14	Starship	65	0	59	81	10	55	123	926068
15	Irene Cara	64	2	62	68	14	59	128	377253
16	Rick Astley	64	3	67	75	23	73	117	1061326
17	Billy Ocean	63	2	70	71	23	72	113	1039294
18	Culture Club	63	0	67	64	25	71	112	1428224
19	The Bangles	63	0	57	65	15	68	125	1264318
20	Soft Cell	63	3	59	62	26	60	139	608615
21	Erasure	62	5	63	76	9	65	118	942879
22	The Human League	62	6	69	65	13	65	118	1041821
23	Belinda Carlisle	61	0	61	79	9	61	124	775464
24	Spandau Ballet	61	12	63	69	21	61	127	1167088
25	Kim Carnes	61	2	59	57	21	54	117	294884
26	Laura Branigan	61	6	63	63	35	57	126	636227
27	Dexys Midnight Runners	61	4	54	66	41	70	124	220645
28	Cutting Crew	61	2	53	75	7	53	122	374258
29	Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark	60	25	59	71	15	66	130	705382
30	Berlin	60	1	55	66	5	58	127	479525
31	Fine Young Cannibals	59	1	69	75	16	80	131	778717
32	Grace Jones	58	15	71	62	9	67	124	299929
33	Mike + The Mechanics	58	0	60	64	27	53	119	625795
34	Dead Or Alive	58	11	61	90	7	72	126	353927
35	Frankie Goes To Hollywood	58	14	54	54	24	40	119	725459
36	Paul Young	58	0	60	64	21	67	118	877293
37	Bronski Beat	58	3	62	62	30	65	130	508447
38	Yazoo	58	11	77	54	21	63	123	630677
39	Talk Talk	58	27	54	61	24	56	116	483116
40	The Buggles	57	18	67	75	15	46	138	98563
41	Level 42	57	5	68	74	23	71	115	635870
42	Harold Faltermeyer	57	83	66	56	19	44	117	35044
43	A Flock Of Seagulls	57	33	52	77	3	64	136	552161
44	The Stranglers	57	28	56	73	6	76	130	509711
45	Wet Wet Wet	56	0	53	61	32	55	128	459666
46	Baltimora	56	11	64	67	28	75	106	83295
47	Taylor Dayne	56	3	66	81	13	68	119	420055
48	The Romantics	56	0	60	85	5	86	137	357514
49	Peter Schilling	55	4	74	54	10	72	134	93737
50	Mr. Mister	55	0	58	59	11	64	122	507646
51	Miami Sound Machine	55	3	70	59	26	79	130	282878
52	DEVO	55	19	62	70	13	71	141	504560
53	Sheena Easton	55	0	66	52	44	64	117	609389
54	The Go-Go's	54	1	51	86	9	75	155	694201
55	Oingo Boingo	54	6	60	78	13	73	140	387108
56	Nik Kershaw	54	2	62	65	24	68	114	292357
57	Lisa Stansfield	54	1	69	67	23	71	111	662104
58	Men Without Hats	54	2	63	82	5	65	130	213690
59	Wang Chung	53	7	66	70	13	59	114	301194
60	Squeeze	53	1	64	66	14	73	127	287072
61	ICEHOUSE	53	11	63	82	10	48	120	333687
62	Kraftwerk	53	67	70	68	20	56	122	711236
63	ABC	52	7	65	75	14	71	119	350609
64	The Communards	52	7	59	73	36	65	124	306050
65	Ultravox	52	31	54	74	5	64	135	488755
66	Thompson Twins	51	5	73	70	19	74	113	609400
67	When In Rome	51	19	63	81	16	72	122	94852
68	Go West	51	0	62	71	14	75	127	237251
69	Johnny Hates Jazz	51	2	66	65	20	66	114	196688
70	The Housemartins	51	0	54	58	27	76	124	217369
71	Gary Numan	51	13	55	66	7	37	120	422152
72	The Church	50	15	48	67	4	43	123	211048
73	Sparks	50	3	60	67	21	61	127	202455
74	Corey Hart	50	2	60	58	31	55	116	265567
75	Killing Joke	50	24	47	88	2	47	135	292992
76	Howard Jones	50	3	61	68	28	63	112	390645
77	Black	50	11	58	40	53	38	102	48758
78	Yello	49	47	65	76	11	47	125	173106
79	Modern English	49	21	48	71	1	60	142	164848
80	Naked Eyes	49	1	64	73	9	75	128	151429
81	Limahl	49	4	63	65	17	73	121	60841
82	Alison Moyet	49	1	60	60	25	60	116	435382
83	The Beloved	48	51	57	72	5	65	117	54168
84	Deacon Blue	48	0	54	65	13	49	117	204145
85	Information Society	47	14	70	71	4	63	118	181917
86	Climie Fisher	47	0	60	67	20	76	111	64056
87	The Boomtown Rats	47	0	47	75	31	56	129	149190
88	The English Beat	47	9	62	74	5	86	150	126886
89	Visage	47	36	57	61	9	55	117	196019
90	Phil Oakey	46	0	0	0	0	0	0	11546
91	Camouflage	46	14	60	70	3	60	134	101416
92	Kajagoogoo	45	10	67	72	11	73	121	230399
93	The Art Of Noise	45	48	66	56	22	48	116	140669
94	Boy George	45	4	61	58	28	55	115	525525
95	Samantha Fox	45	5	68	82	9	77	121	309690
96	Martika	45	3	66	77	23	61	123	200647
97	Lloyd Cole and the Commotions	45	7	64	65	12	61	123	101003
98	Gazebo	45	1	73	68	20	68	118	63637
99	Peter Murphy	45	6	54	64	15	52	126	208397
100	And One	45	40	61	81	11	62	127	103644
101	Marc Almond	44	4	56	60	20	54	129	79122
102	The Beat	44	3	71	69	8	88	149	145775
103	Aztec Camera	44	1	60	55	33	62	118	120349
104	Fiction Factory	44	8	63	84	18	74	118	21086
105	Jimmy Somerville	44	1	66	78	13	75	126	196764
106	Heaven 17	43	11	73	77	8	57	121	234833
107	Thomas Dolby	43	9	65	62	18	63	120	153140
108	Yazz	43	0	69	80	13	72	121	35720
109	Propaganda	43	40	57	72	10	56	123	106679
110	The Mission	43	11	50	66	15	46	114	149206
111	Midge Ure	43	12	52	62	13	49	116	105040
112	'Til Tuesday	43	1	56	59	19	58	125	147139
113	T'Pau	43	0	42	65	27	48	136	186981
114	Real Life	43	3	61	82	5	61	128	59926
115	The Dream Academy	43	6	50	47	42	40	123	47702
116	China Crisis	43	17	72	49	27	77	117	126492
117	Tubeway Army	42	18	60	65	13	56	128	89361
118	Japan	42	15	60	61	19	70	126	210436
119	Shakespears Sister	41	2	58	72	18	51	122	92988
120	Big Audio Dynamite	41	1	70	67	13	72	120	126449
121	The Motels	41	2	72	60	10	61	126	150001
122	Wolfsheim	40	12	60	67	15	48	129	83869
123	Flash and the Pan	40	22	65	67	16	73	131	25536
124	Electronic	40	39	59	86	1	64	124	140160
125	Living In A Box	40	6	63	73	13	81	109	71551
126	Haircut 100	40	35	62	69	6	83	137	70441
127	Malcolm McLaren	39	9	61	61	11	55	104	47735
128	Mel & Kim	39	5	71	94	6	82	119	99830
129	Animotion	39	25	65	73	1	55	122	45218
130	Missing Persons	39	11	69	79	11	75	140	150449
131	Front 242	39	62	67	85	4	51	125	129124
132	The Blow Monkeys	39	3	55	70	13	68	120	68910
133	Gene Loves Jezebel	38	1	56	77	3	58	127	88151
134	Blancmange	38	20	72	70	20	73	120	104546
135	The Power Station	38	2	67	87	7	61	115	128548
136	M	37	0	94	79	9	97	111	4328
137	The Alarm	37	0	51	79	5	53	134	69705
138	General Public	36	8	61	70	17	88	128	67760
139	Altered Images	36	37	57	66	11	63	130	76730
140	Holly Johnson	36	0	69	79	9	81	113	25978
141	Wall Of Voodoo	35	10	58	72	4	64	127	67800
142	Curiosity Killed The Cat	35	0	71	77	37	80	110	77443
143	Scritti Politti	35	11	69	58	11	70	115	92926
144	The Twins	35	19	64	77	2	72	124	17168
145	Kon Kan	35	15	67	75	3	82	126	24882
146	Tones On Tail	35	31	56	62	11	51	140	63941
147	John Foxx	35	17	50	56	18	43	119	36135
148	Martin Gore	35	38	65	45	29	34	111	79845
149	Pseudo Echo	34	0	62	79	12	74	131	53188
150	De/Vision	34	9	57	81	7	39	128	48022
151	Nitzer Ebb	34	5	68	71	1	71	128	76047
152	Book Of Love	34	46	64	67	3	68	127	53082
153	The Bolshoi	34	2	59	79	6	58	133	41831
154	The Christians	34	0	58	64	18	54	129	45921
155	Romeo Void	34	42	58	65	3	77	145	51326
156	The Icicle Works	33	5	45	77	8	47	131	34920
157	Hazel O'Connor	32	12	51	50	31	50	138	34826
158	Hue and Cry	32	0	56	53	45	51	112	46272
159	Cabaret Voltaire	31	58	67	70	15	64	124	90894
160	Lene Lovich	31	5	62	65	7	67	138	35117
161	Fad Gadget	31	18	69	74	15	60	118	42390
162	Pete Shelley	30	6	64	81	12	81	133	14893
163	Belouis Some	30	22	70	82	27	83	121	18434
164	DM	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	916
165	B-Movie	30	20	49	74	2	60	148	13409
166	Then Jerico	30	4	56	77	11	60	116	21322
167	Cetu Javu	30	1	64	66	5	79	126	15696
168	The Colourfield	29	5	61	47	26	60	123	21119
169	Beborn Beton	29	21	60	80	9	59	132	18253
170	The Associates	29	15	60	74	13	63	128	40861
171	Anything Box	29	2	63	77	6	66	119	18293
172	The Lotus Eaters	28	0	47	68	21	48	148	20691
173	Arcadia	28	0	64	64	8	56	110	28237
174	Toyah	27	0	55	81	8	56	141	43037
175	New Musik	27	22	66	61	10	61	135	16528
176	Flesh For Lulu	27	0	47	83	2	56	138	24730
177	Psyche	27	22	65	70	8	47	126	12038
178	Boytronic	27	33	70	82	3	59	139	9160
179	Stephen Duffy	27	0	75	70	14	85	121	12055
180	Elegant Machinery	26	0	66	84	3	65	127	11025
181	Red Flag	26	26	65	70	2	49	117	11262
182	Classix Nouveaux	25	18	62	76	9	77	136	25849
183	Nick Heyward	25	1	59	70	10	64	126	30503
184	Vicious Pink	24	22	69	84	4	76	129	6411
185	Cause & Effect	23	17	64	70	6	69	117	14229
186	Kissing The Pink	22	12	61	81	4	77	118	6836
187	Gina X Performance	22	2	69	57	18	80	123	8692
188	16 Bit	21	2	78	64	10	44	120	4715
189	Celebrate The Nun	20	4	61	91	10	83	126	5264
190	The Assembly	19	21	67	64	43	57	165	2699
191	The Normal	19	5	61	60	17	46	156	8709
192	The League Unlimited Orchestra	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	2515
193	Landscape	17	1	88	57	15	54	107	5937
194	Tommy Mandel	16	14	66	69	5	75	120	1986
195	Silicon Teens	15	33	72	71	6	81	120	2877
196	Paul Haig	15	2	59	86	9	90	120	3641
197	Rational Youth	14	18	64	74	1	77	134	4213
198	Figures On A Beach	13	0	58	79	1	86	119	1298
199	Vitamin Z	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1469
200	Our Daughter's Wedding	7	0	71	56	0	94	164	801

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