List of power pop musicians

This is a list of notable bands and musicians that have been described as playing power pop music, or as contributing to the power pop genre.

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• 10cc
• 20/20
• 4 Out of 5 Doctors

A

• Admiral Twin
• The All-American Rejects
• American Hi-Fi
• Any Trouble
• The Apples in Stereo
• Artful Dodger
• Ash
• All Time Low
• Attic Lights

B

• Tal Bachman
• Badfinger
• The Bangles
• Barenaked Ladies
• The Barracudas
• Stiv Bators
• The Beat
• Beatnik Termites
• Chris Bell
• Rene Berg
• Better Than Ezra
• Big Star
• Blondie
• Blue
• Blue Ash
• Bleu
• The Bongos
• Bourgeois Tagg
• The Boys
• Bram Tchaikovsky
• The Breakaways
• The Breetles
• Brendan Benson
• The Broken West
• Busted

C

• The Candy Butchers
• The Cars
• Cheap Trick
• Cherry Twister
• The Chords
• The Click Five
• The Connells
• The Contrast
• Elvis Costello
• Cotton Mather
• Marshall Crenshaw
• The Cute Lepers
• Cute Is What We Aim For^[1]

D

• Danielle Egnew
• Devin Davis
• The Dandy Warhols
• The dB's
• Del Amitri
• Don Dixon
• Dressy Bessy
• Duran Duran ^{[2] [3]}

E

• Eddie & the Hot Rods
• Enuff Z'nuff
• The Exploding Hearts

F

• Jason Falkner
• Farewell
• Farrah
• Michael Fennelly
• Firestarter
• The Flamin Groovies
• Ben Folds
• Jeff Foskett
• Fountains of Wayne
• Forever the Sickest Kids
• Frisbie
• Future Clouds and Radar

G

• Game Theory
• Per Gessle
• Gas Giants
• Gigolo Aunts
• Gin Blossoms
• Ginger Sling ^[4]
• The Go-Betweens
• The Grays
• The Greenberry Woods
• Guadalcanal Diary
• Guster

H

• Juliana Hatfield
• Head Automatica^[5]
• The Headboys
• Hey Monday
• Hellogoodbye^[6][7]
• Holly and the Italians
• The Hudson Brothers
• The Hummingbirds
• Eric Hutchinson

J

• The Jags
• The Jam
• Jellyfish
• Jimmy Eat World
• Jonas Brothers
• Brad Jones

K

• Tommy Keene
• The Knack
• Kids In Glass Houses

L

• The Lambrettas
• The La's
• Lazlo Bane
• The Lemonheads
• Let's Active
• Lightning Seeds
• Locksley
• The Loud Family
• Loverboy ^[8]
• Nick Lowe
• Luna Halo

M

• MOTH
• Roger Joseph Manning Jr.
• Material Issue
• Matt & Kim
• The Merry-Go-Round
• Mitch Allan
• R. Stevie Moore
• The Motors
• Mika^[9]
• Morningwood
• Motion City Soundtrack
• McFly

N

• The Nazz
• The Nerves
• The New Pornographers
• A.C. Newman
• The Nice Boys

O

• The Odds
• OK Go
• The Only Ones
• Ookla the Mok
• The Orange Peels
• Owsley
• Orson
• Ozma

P

• Michel Pagliaro
• Papas Fritas
• Pandoras
• Paramore^[10]
• Paul Collins' Beat
• Michael Penn
• Pezband
• The Pink Spiders
• The Pettit Project
• The Pillbugs
• The Plimsouls
• Plain White T's
• Pointed Sticks
• Pooh Sticks
• The Posies
• Powerspace
• Private Jets
• The Pursuit of Happiness

R

• The Raspberries
• The Records
• The Red Buttonr
• Redd Kross
• The Rembrandts
• The Replacements
• Restless Soul
• Emitt Rhodes
• The Rocket Summer
• The Romantics
• Rooney
• Roxette
• The Rubinoos
• Rudi
• Todd Rundgren

S

• The Scruffs
• Secret Affair
• Bob Segarini
• Phil Seymour
• Shoes
• Silver Sun
• The Singles
• Sloan
• The Smithereens
• Splitsville
• Rick Springfield
• Spymob
• Squeeze
• The Stereo
• Sugarcult
• Superbus
• Superdrag
• Supergrass
• Super Furry Animals
• Matthew Sweet
• Swirl 360

T

• Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
• Teenage Fanclub
• Third Eye Blind
• Glenn Tilbrook
• Tiny Dancers
• The Thermals
• Tonight
• Tsar
• Dwight Twilley

U

• The Undertones
• Until June
• Utopia

V

• The Vapors
• The Vibrators
• Velvet Crush
• Veruca Salt

W

• Wannadies
• Steve Ward
• We Are Balboa
• We the Kings
• Weezer
• Wheatus
• The Who
• The Wombats^[11]
• Wondermints

X

• XTC

Z

• Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer
• Zumpano
• Zwan

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