List of city pop artists
The following is a list of artists and bands associated with the city pop music genre during the late 1970s and 1980s (not necessarily solely city pop artists).
Groups and artists with aliases are listed by the first letter in their name, and individuals are listed by their surname.
- AB'S
- Akira Terao[1]
- Anri[2][3]
- Carlos Toshiki
- Casiopea[4]
- Cindy[5][6]
- Eiichi Ohtaki[1][4]
- Haruomi Hosono[1][7][4]
- Hiroshi Sato[3]
- Hitomi Tohyama[8][9]
- Junko Ohashi
- Junko Yagami[10][11]
- Kanako Wada[12]
- Kingo Hamada[13]
- Mai Yamane[11]
- Mariya Takeuchi[1]
- Masayoshi Takanaka[4][11]
- Meiko Nakahara[1]
- Miki Matsubara[14][15][3]
- Off Course
- S. Kiyotaka & Omega Tribe[1][4]
- Shigeru Suzuki
- T-Square[4]
- Taeko Ohnuki[1][4][11]
- Tatsuro Yamashita[1][4][3]
- Tomoko Aran[3][16][10]
- Toshiki Kadomatsu[1][4][3]
- Yasuha
- Yumi Matsutoya[1]
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