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Ultravox

1,931,410 plays (241,472 listeners)

Ultravox (formerly Ultravox!) were one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the early 1980s. The band was particularly associated with the New Romantic movement, although it both pre- and post-dated New Romantic by several years, drawing inspiration variously from punk, the artier side of glam rock and latterly straightforward synth pop.

Visage

873,455 plays (164,407 listeners)

There are at least two artists sharing the name Visage; The name is used by a British synthpop band, and a Japanese visual kei band.

Heaven 17

1,033,489 plays (149,336 listeners)

Heaven 17 is a British synthpop band originating in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom formed in 1980.

A Flock of Seagulls

1,513,012 plays (240,844 listeners)

Hailing from Liverpool, England, A Flock of Seagulls is a synthpop group originally formed by brothers Mike Score (keyboards, vocals) and Ali Score (drums), with Frank Maudsley (bass) and Paul Reynolds (guitar) that gained popularity and subsquently infamy in the early days of MTV with the video for their songs I Ran and Space Age Love Song

Yazoo

1,677,027 plays (257,123 listeners)

"Yazoo" (known as "Yaz" in the U.S.) were an English synthpop duo from Basildon, UK. Yazoo were formed in early 1982 by former "Depeche Mode" songwriter Vince Clarke (synthesizers) and English singer Alison Moyet (vocals) and was signed to Mute Records in the United Kingdom.

Soft Cell

2,415,805 plays (394,004 listeners)

Soft Cell is an English synthesizer duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s and come from Leeds, England. They consisted of Marc Almond (vocals) and Dave Ball (synthesizers).

Thompson Twins

1,081,186 plays (203,232 listeners)

Thompson Twins were an English new wave band. The band formed in April 1977, and disbanded in May 1993. Massively popular in the mid-1980s, the band scored a string of hits in the UK, broke into the U.S. and Canada and enjoyed huge popularity around the globe. The band was named after the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson from Hergé's comic strip, The Adventures of Tintin.

Blancmange

270,234 plays (60,112 listeners)

"Blancmange" were formed in Harrow in 1979, by vocalist, Neil Arthur (born on 15 August 1958, in Darwen, Lancashire); and instrumentalist Stephen Luscombe (born on 29 October 1954, in Hillingdon, Middlesex).