Skip to content

Best city pop artists of the 2000s

The industry lost control of distribution and the music got stranger for it. Blogs did the job radio used to do. The South took the charts outright, and Kanye West began a run of reinventions that outlasted the decade he started it in.

Everyone who released a city pop album in the 2000s, ordered by how Riffiter listeners rate their catalog.

Tatsuro Yamashita№ 1Tatsuro Yamashita1 album here
  1. 2JUNKO YAGAMIJUNKO YAGAMI1 album here
  2. 3Kingo HamadaKingo Hamada3 albums here
  3. 4BLU‐SWINGBLU‐SWING2 albums here
  4. 5Hiroshi SatoHiroshi Sato3 albums here
  5. 6RYUSENKEIRYUSENKEI1 album here

Rate the artists, not just the records

An artist's score here is every rating their catalog has collected. Add yours and the order moves.

Build a list or tier of your own

All genres, the 2000s →