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Best city pop artists of the 1970s

Prog and hard rock spent the middle of the decade getting longer while dub and krautrock quietly assembled the rhythmic machinery that pop is still borrowing. Then punk turned up and told all of them to get to the point.

Everyone who released a city pop album in the 1970s, ordered by how Riffiter listeners rate their catalog.

Ryuichi Sakamoto№ 1Ryuichi Sakamoto1 album here3.9Weighted score3.8 avg · 3 ratings
  1. 2Taeko OnukiTaeko Onuki2 albums here2 ratings
  2. 3AnriAnri1 album here1 rating
  3. 4Tatsuro YamashitaTatsuro Yamashita4 albums here
  4. 5JUNKO YAGAMIJUNKO YAGAMI1 album here
  5. 6Hiroshi SatoHiroshi Sato3 albums here
  6. 7Eiichi OhtakiEiichi Ohtaki5 albums here
  7. 8CharChar1 album here

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