There’s a lot of famous artists today, but I’d love to discover new pop music that is oriented around a band instead of an individual. Bands like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Pink Floyd have all topped the pop charts. Glenn Miller’s Orchestra topped the pop charts in 1940 with a fully instrumental song In the Mood.
I can think of Sammy Rae and Friends, but no others.
What are your favorite modern pop bands? Especially ones with a focus on instrumentals.
Edit: thanks for the recs!
Pop music today (as a genre, not just music on the charts) is very programming-heavy, and not generally oriented around people playing on and performing with live instruments. This leaves little room for pop “bands”, and when pop is made by groups, it is typically groups of singers, with one or two of them able to play a bit of guitar or piano for a more intimate ballad. Most of the bands you mentioned would be considered “rock” if they were new artists today (or jazz for Glen Miller).
There are solo artists like Taylor Swift where a significant portion of the material is played by a band, but these bands are made of professional sidemen/session players, and the “artist” is still just one person.
olivia rodrigo does piano/guitar and has her producer dan nigro (usually) doing the other instruments
Yeah that’s what I’ve been finding, but pop music in the rock and jazz days was still mostly oriented around a single artist and session musicians, but bands still became popular (even if it wasn’t pop as a genre). So I figure there might still be some popular bands today.