Post-War Popular Music of Germany

After the World War II, German pop music was much influenced by music from United States of America and the Great Britain. Apart from Liedermacher and Schlager, it is necessary to differentiate between pop music in West Germany and pop music in East Germany that were established in different directions. Pop music from West Germany, often heard in East Germany, had more variety and is still present today, while East German music had only little influence.

In the West Germany, English language pop music became more and more significant, and today most songs on the radio are English. Nevertheless, there is a big variety of German language pop music. There is also English pop music from Germany, some having international success (for example is the Scorpions), but little with enduring broad success in Germany itself. There was hardly any English pop music from East Germany.

Germany has also had a flourishing English language pop scene since the end of the war, with many European and American acts topping the charts. However, Germans and German-oriented artists have been successful as well. In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21^st  century, such European pop acts were famous as well as musicians such as Marc Terenz, No Angels, Sarah Connor, US5 and Morose, all who performed different kinds of mainstream pop in English. Many of these musicians have had success all over Europe and Asia as well, although few have broken the American market.