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Europop refers to a style of pop music that originated in Europe and is generally more dance and trance oriented than American pop. Europop includes Italo disco and later Eurodance. The Europop genre originated in the late 1970s and topped the charts throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
List of Europop artists
- ABBA
- Ace of Base
- Alcazar
- Army of Lovers
- Bananarama
- Günther
- Lollipop
- Fabrika
- Modern Talking
- Mónica Naranjo
- Nek
- Robyn
- Roxette
- Scooch
- Six
- S.O.A.P.
- Steps
- A Touch of Class (ATC)
- Whigfield
- Ricchi e Poveri
References
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- Frith, Simon; Straw, Will; Street, John (2001). The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press. p. 198. ISBN 0-521-55660-0.
The Swedish quartet, Abba, are the most successful ever Europop group.
- Ray, Michael, ed. (2013). Disco, Punk, New Wave, Heavy Metal, and More: Music in the 1970s and 1980s. Britannica Educational Publishing. p. 175. ISBN 978-1-6153-0912-2.
The Swedish Europop quartet ABBA was among the most commercially successful groups in the history of popular music.
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