New pop

New pop is a loosely defined British-centric pop music movement consisting of ambitious, DIY-minded artists who achieved commercial success in the early 1980s through sources such as MTV. Rooted in the post-punk movement of the late 1970s, the movement spanned a wide variety of styles and artists, including acts such as Orange Juice, the Human League, and ABC. The term "rockist", a pejorative against people who shunned this type of music,^[4][5] coincided with and was associated with new pop.^[2]

"New music", sometimes referred to as "new wave" in the United States,^[6][7][8] is a roughly equivalent but slightly more expansive umbrella term^[9] for a pop music and cultural phenomenon in the US associated with the Second British Invasion.^[10][11] The term was used by the music industry and by American music journalists during the 1980s to characterize then-new movements like new pop and New Romanticism.^[12]