Pop-Punk

Pop punk (also known as pop-punk and punk-pop) is a fusion music genre that combines elements of punk rock with pop music, to varying degrees

Power pop!

• Power Pop is seen as the originating source of pop-punk as it has beat/pace/idea are very similar

• During the 1970's, Power Pop and Punk Rock were seen as the the same sub-genre, today they are very

similar and can be seen as the same

•The Ramones were considered the first popular band that followed this genre

• It is not clear when the term pop punk was first used, but pop-influenced punk rock had been around since

the mid to late1970s

Examples

The OffspringGreenday

Popular acceptance (1994–1998)

Blink 182

The Lurkers

The Undertones

Ramones

(1960's - 80's)

90's - Today

During the 90's, Pop Punk became increasinly popular

The Offspring returned in 1998 with Americana, which reached the top 10 worldwide and went multiplatinum with 9 million certified copies worldwide. The hit single "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" became an iconic song, and went 4x Platinum in Australia.

Pop punk's "second wave" and commercial success generally peaked with the release of blink-182's Enema of the State in 1999 which sold 15 million copies worldwide

Blink-182 found continued success in 2001 with Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, which sold 14 million copies worldwide. The commercial success of the album secured blink-182's status as one of the biggest bands of the genre.

Avril Lavigne had huge success with the single "Girlfriend", which peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and became the top-selling song of 2007, making it the most successful pop punk single of the decade

Her platinum album The Best Damn Thing became the top-selling pop punk album of 2007, selling around 7 million copies worldwide, making it the second most successful pop punk album of the decade after Green Day's American Idiot

Today

Today Pop-punk is seeing a decline in this genre, the popularity died out around 2008.

Most "Famous" artists of the Genre have now moved on and put their band on "Hiatus".

Blink-182 released their sixth studio album, Neighborhoods, in September 2011 and it debuted at no. 2 on the Billboard 200

However most recently, Fall out boy ended there Hiatus and released "Save rock and roll" leading to number one on the Billboard 200 in the US

Most of the bands have moved on or changed to other sub-genre's, such as Emo- Punk and Alternative

It can be considered that Alternative and other versions of punk are still Pop punk.

With new definitions and a ever changing industry, it's difficult to see a successfull future for the genre

Today

Today Pop-punk is seeing a decline in this genre, the popularity died out around 2008.

Most "Famous" artists of the Genre have now moved on and put their band on "Hiatus".

Blink-182 released their sixth studio album, Neighborhoods, in September 2011 and it debuted at no. 2 on the Billboard 200

However most recently, Fall out boy ended there Hiatus and released "Save rock and roll" leading to number one on the Billboard 200 in the US

Most of the bands have moved on or changed to other sub-genre's, such as Emo- Punk and Alternative

It can be considered that Alternative and other versions of punk are still Pop punk.

With new definitions and a ever changing industry, it's difficult to see a successfull future for the genre