List of sophisti-pop artists

This is a list of artists retrospectively classified under the genre sophisti-pop. The term has been applied to pop music that emerged during the mid-1980s in the UK which incorporated elements of new wave, jazz, soul, and pop. Music so classified often made extensive use of electronic keyboards, synthesizers and polished arrangements, particularly horn sections.

Sophisti-pop artists
• ABC

• Altered Images

• Animal Nightlife

• Aztec Camera

• Basia

• The Blow Monkeys

• The Blue Nile

• The Christians

• Curiosity Killed the Cat

• Danny Wilson

• Deacon Blue

• Double

• Everything but the Girl

• Bryan Ferry

• Go West

• Haircut One Hundred

• Hue and Cry

• Joe Jackson

• Johnny Hates Jazz

• Laid Back

• Level 42

• Living in a Box

• Love and Money

• Matt Bianco

• Orange Juice

• Prefab Sprout

• Sade

• Scritti Politti

• Simply Red

• Belouis Some

• Spandau Ballet

• The Style Council

• Swing Out Sister

• Jessie Ware

• Wet Wet Wet