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1970s
The punk-rock band "The Ramones" begin to experiment with genre fusion by combining punk rock with their love for the groups "The Kinks" and "The Beatles". Later in this decade, Brtish bands "The Undertones" and "The Buzzcocks" create punk rock created with pop-style melodies. This inspires the "mod" movement which displays pop-punk characteristics. -
1980s
The band "Bad Religion" form and lay the foundation for pop-punk. Another band known as “The Descendants” also combine their love for “Ramones” and “The Beach Boys” in order to create smooth-melodic punk rock. The phrase “pop-punk” is also first publicised in different forms of print music media when describing the bands of the era such as “Social Distortion” and “Agent Orange”. -
Early 1990s
Pop-punk is becoming a largely recognisable genre through “Bad Religion” and “The Descendants”. These bands inspire a wave of youth musicians to adhere to the genre-combination and hence forth the bands “The Offspring” and “Green Day” form. These bands are picked up by independent punk labels “Epitaph”, “Fat Wreck Chords” and “Lookout Records” who emerge at a similar time to the proliferation of the genre and catch onto the trend. -
Mid 1990's
Pop punk emerges into popular acceptance and the independent record labels such as “Epitaph” and “Fat Wreck Chords” are finding relative commercial success. “Green Day” and "Bad Religion" are signed to commercial record conglomerates and began appearing on MTV and international radio. By 1994 pop-punk bands were receiving praise at the Grammy Awards, notoriously “Green Day”. “Green Day” also headline Woodstock festival in 1994 becoming the first mainstream pop-punk act to do so. -
Late 90's
The late 90's saw pop-punk truly blossom into American culture. this is largely due to the proliferation of both "Hot Topic" and the "Vans Warped Tour" which showcases many pop-punk acts on a tour across the United States. Society is welcoming pop-punk yet many are critiquing it's value and quality compared to original punk rock. In 1998 the band "The Offspring" release the album "Americana" and a bootleg copy of the first single is illegally downloaded 22 million times. -
Early 2000's
Pop-Punk band "Blink-182" release the album "Enema of the State" which sells 15 million copies across the globe. Other band including "My Chemical Romance", "Lit" and "New Found Glory" also release new albums are pop-punk is consistently screened on MTV and dominates the charts. "Green Day" are fading from the success of "Blink 182" and "Sum 41" however and aim to re-ignite their careers by releasing the album "American Idiot" which sells 14 million copies and becomes iconic in pop-punk history. -
Mid 2000's
Mid 2005 sees pop-punk continue it's full development as a genre. While slightly decreasing in popularity it is still highly regarded with more artists converting and emerging from the genre such as Avril Lavigne. Hybrid genre's such as emo-punk are also being created through bands such as "Fall Out Boy", "Paramore" and "Panic! at the disco". This is largely due to the label "Fueled by Ramen" who assisted to creation of the hybrid-genre. -
Late 2000's - Present
The late 2000's sees a decline in pop-punk popularity with the emergence of electronic and rap music taking over. Artists such as "Blink-182" and "Green Day" continue to sell out arenas and concerts yet struggle to obtain a position within the pop-charts. A campaign is started named "pop-punk ain't dead" which attempts to re-ignite the genre. In 2016 after a few dormant years "Blink-182", "Green Day", Good Charlotte", "Sum41" and "Yellowcard" all release new albums.
