1990s – 2020sPeak: 1990s
Britpop / Indie
About Britpop / Indie
The mid-1990s movement that reasserted British guitar music against the dominance of American grunge. Oasis and Blur's chart rivalry became national news; Pulp's Common People made class observation a pop hook; Radiohead grew out of the moment into something entirely their own. The Arctic Monkeys carried the lineage into the streaming era as the first MySpace-built British band to top the charts.