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Best city pop artists of the 2010s

Streaming rewrote every incentive underneath a record: its length, its release date, whether it needed a single at all. Trap production became pop's default rhythm, and a lot of the decade's best artists arrived through a laptop rather than a label.

Everyone who released a city pop album in the 2010s, ordered by how Riffiter listeners rate their catalog.

TWRP№ 1TWRP1 album here3.5Weighted score2.7 avg · 3 ratings
  1. 2CasiopeaCasiopea1 album here
  2. 3Mariya TakeuchiMariya Takeuchi1 album here
  3. 4Tomoko AranTomoko Aran2 albums here
  4. 5Night TempoNight Tempo2 albums here
  5. 6JUNKO YAGAMIJUNKO YAGAMI6 albums here
  6. 7Kingo HamadaKingo Hamada3 albums here
  7. 8Makoto MatsushitaMakoto Matsushita1 album here
  8. 9BLU‐SWINGBLU‐SWING7 albums here
  9. 10Hiroshi SatoHiroshi Sato5 albums here
  10. 11Eiichi OhtakiEiichi Ohtaki5 albums here

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