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The following is a list of power pop albums by notable artists that have been described as such by music reviews, or any similar source. They are listed chronologically, with the older ones at the top of the list.

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Deming, Mark. "Loud Family – Attractive Nuisance". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 August 2014. Attractive Nuisance was a wickedly arch slice of intelligent power pop

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"Still Shattered: 10 Years After The Exploding Hearts' Guitar Romantic". Consequence of Sound. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2014.

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Brown, Jeff (June 2003). "Reviews > Rooney – Rooney". CMJ New Music Monthly. p. 59. ISSN 1074-6978.

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Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Cheap Trick – Rockford". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 August 2014. Cheap Trick's first genuine power pop album since their heyday, and their best album since Dream Police.

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Heisel, Scott (31 December 2006). "Best of 2006". Punknews.org. Retrieved 15 August 2014.

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"The Nice Boys – The Nice Boys". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 August 2014.

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Fetters, Ashley (24 June 2013). "Young lads of One Direction seem fatigued, still inspire screams". The Washington Post. Retrieved 17 August 2014. It earned critical and commercial approval for its bouncy power-pop sound

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Year	Artist	Album
1970	Badfinger	No Dice^[1]^[2]
Emitt Rhodes	Emitt Rhodes^[3]
1971	Badfinger	Straight Up^[2]^[4]
1972	Big Star	#1 Record^[5]^[6]
1974	Radio City^[5]^[7]
Raspberries	Starting Over^[8]^[9]
1976	Dwight Twilley Band	Sincerely^[10]
Flamin' Groovies	Shake Some Action^[11]
1977	Cheap Trick	Cheap Trick^[12]
In Color^[13]^[14]
Dwight Twilley Band	Twilley Don't Mind^[15]^[16]
1978	Big Star	Third/Sister Lovers^[17]
The Cars	The Cars^[18]^[19]
Cheap Trick	Heaven Tonight^[14]
Greg Kihn	Next of Kihn^[20]
Starz	Attention Shoppers!^[21]
1979	20/20	20/20^[22]
The Beat	The Beat^[23]^[24]^[25]
The Knack	Get the Knack^[26]

Year	Artist	Album
1980	Stiv Bators	Disconnected^[27]
Dirty Looks	Dirty Looks^[28]
The Jags	Evening Standards^[29]
The Romantics	The Romantics^[22]
Phil Seymour	Phil Seymour^[30]
1981	The dB's	Stands for Decibels^[31]
Rick Springfield	Working Class Dog^[32]
1982	Donnie Iris and the Cruisers	The High and the Mighty^[33]
The Go-Go's	Vacation^[34]
The Greg Kihn Band	Kihntinued^[35]^[36]
Tommy Keene	Strange Alliance^[37]
Phil Seymour	Phil Seymour 2^[38]
The Spongetones	Beat Music^[39]
1983	Donnie Iris and the Cruisers	Fortune 410^[40]
Rick Springfield	Living in Oz^[41]
1984	The Spongetones	Torn Apart^[39]
1985	Game Theory	Real Nighttime^[42]
1986	Tommy Keene	Songs from the Film^[43]
1987	Game Theory	Lolita Nation^[44]
1988	Two Steps from the Middle Ages^[42]
1989	The Someloves	Something or Other^[45]^[46]

Year	Artist	Album
1990	Cavedogs	Joyrides for Shut-Ins^[47]
Doughboys	Happy Accidents^[48]
Jellyfish	Bellybutton^[18]
1991	The Knack	Serious Fun^[49]
Material Issue	International Pop Overthrow^[50]
Adam Schmitt	World So Bright^[51]
The Spongetones	Oh Yeah!^[52]
Matthew Sweet	Girlfriend^[18]
Teenage Fanclub	Bandwagonesque^[53]
Velvet Crush	In the Presence of Greatness^[54]
1992	Chris Mars	Horseshoes and Hand Grenades^[55]
Sugar	Copper Blue^[56]
1993	Blue Ash	No More, No Less^[57]^[58]
Flamin' Groovies	Rock Juice^[59]
The Loud Family	Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things^[60]
Chris Mars	75% Less Fat^[55]
The Semantics	Powerbill^[61]
Chris Von Sneidern	Sight & Sound^[62]^[63]
1994	Cotton Mather	Cotton Is King^[64]
Sloan	Twice Removed^[65]
Chris Von Sneidern	Big White Lies^[66]
Weezer	Weezer^[67]^[68]
1995	20/20	20/20 / Look Out!^[69]
The Breetles	Pop Go! The Breetles^[70]
Teenage Fanclub	Grand Prix^[71]
1996	Ash	1977^[72]^[73]
Enuff Z'Nuff	Peach Fuzz^[74]
Fountains of Wayne	Fountains of Wayne^[75]^[76]
The Loud Family	Interbabe Concern^[60]
Sloan	One Chord to Another^[77]
Chris Von Sneidern	Go!^[78]
Weezer	Pinkerton^[79]
1997	The Apples In Stereo	Tone Soul Evolution^[80]
1998	Phantom Planet	Phantom Planet Is Missing^[81]
Tommy Tutone	Tutone.rtf^[82]
1999	Fountains of Wayne	Utopia Parkway^[76]^[83]
The Mayflies USA	Summertown^[84]

Year	Artist	Album
2000	Admiral Twin	Mock Heroic^[85]
The Loud Family	Attractive Nuisance^[86]
The New Pornographers	Mass Romantic^[87]
Tsar	Tsar^[88]
2001	Jimmy Eat World	Bleed American^[89]
The Knack	Normal as the Next Guy^[90]
Ben Kweller	EP Phone Home^[89]
Old 97's	Satellite Rides^[91]^[92]
The Posies	Nice Cheekbones and a Ph.D.^[93]
2002	Candy Butchers	Play with Your Head^[94]
The Mayflies USA	Walking in a Straight Line^[95]
Myracle Brah	Super Automatic^[96]
OK Go	OK Go^[97]
Phantom Planet	The Guest^[98]
2003	Busted	A Present for Everyone^[18]
The Exploding Hearts	Guitar Romantic^[99]^[100]
Fountains of Wayne	Welcome Interstate Managers^[18]^[83]^[101]
Rooney	Rooney^[102]
2004	Enuff Z'Nuff	?^[103]
2005	The New Pornographers	Twin Cinema^[104]
OK Go	Oh No^[97]
Chris Von Sneidern	Like Me That Way^[105]
2006	Cheap Trick	Rockford^[106]
The Feeling	Twelve Stops and Home^[18]
Head Automatica	Popaganda^[107]
The Loud Family	What If It Works?^[60]
The Nice Boys	The Nice Boys^[108]^[109]
The Someloves	Don't Talk About Us: The Real Pop Recordings of the Someloves 1985–89^[110]
2007	The Wellingtons	For Friends in Far Away Places^[111]
Fountains of Wayne	Traffic and Weather^[112]
Paramore	Riot!^[113]
The New Pornographers	Challengers^[114]^[115]
We the Kings	We the Kings^[116]
2008	Cheap Girls	Find Me a Drink Home^[117]^[118]
The Feeling	Join With Us^[119]
Jonas Brothers	A Little Bit Longer^[120]
2009	Fireworks	All I Have to Offer Is My Own Confusion^[121]
Jonas Brothers	Lines, Vines and Trying Times^[122]

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Year	Artist	Album
2010	Motion City Soundtrack	My Dinosaur Life^[123]
Dwight Twilley	Green Blimp^[124]
2011	Mikal Cronin	Mikal Cronin^[125]
One Direction	Up All Night^[126]
2011 2012	Kaiser Chiefs	The Future Is Medieval / Start the Revolution Without Me^[127]
2012	The dB's	Falling off the Sky^[128]
Redd Kross	Researching the Blues^[129]
Green Day	¡Uno!^[130]^[131]
2013	Paramore	Paramore^[132]
Mikal Cronin	MCII^[133]^[134]
2014	Weezer	Everything Will Be Alright in the End^[135]
5 Seconds of Summer	5 Seconds of Summer^[136]
2017	Paramore	After Laughter^[137]