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Best city pop artists of the 2020s

It opened with nobody able to tour, so records got finished in bedrooms and discovery moved to a feed. Drill turned up in every city with a postcode, and Afrobeats and Latin pop went mainstream worldwide without waiting to be translated.

Everyone who released a city pop album in the 2020s, ordered by how Riffiter listeners rate their catalog.

Louie Zong№ 1Louie Zong1 album here
  1. 2Night TempoNight Tempo1 album here
  2. 3JUNKO YAGAMIJUNKO YAGAMI2 albums here
  3. 4Kingo HamadaKingo Hamada1 album here
  4. 5Makoto MatsushitaMakoto Matsushita2 albums here
  5. 6GreyboyGreyboy1 album here
  6. 7BLU‐SWINGBLU‐SWING3 albums here
  7. 8Hiroshi SatoHiroshi Sato1 album here
  8. 9Eiichi OhtakiEiichi Ohtaki8 albums here

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