Levels by Avicii comes to mind. It's 95% instrumental progressive House, though it has a short bridge section with some sampled vocals (Etta James) where the music mostly cuts out. It was a...
Regardless of what the industry predicts, however, we will only get another “Rise” if the American public can get behind a song without words.
Levels by Avicii comes to mind. It's 95% instrumental progressive House, though it has a short bridge section with some sampled vocals (Etta James) where the music mostly cuts out. It was a Billboard Hot 100.
Dance music (especially techno and house) in general is full of instrumental tracks, maybe with some stray unsung sampled words, though it's hair-splitting time if someone wants to categorize it into "pop" or not. ("Anything that's not classical, jazz or folk" is one of the typical musicological definitions.) If the definition is things that have charted, the Mortal Kombat soundtrack also hit #10 on the Billboard top 200, so feel free to test your might.
Levels by Avicii comes to mind. It's 95% instrumental progressive House, though it has a short bridge section with some sampled vocals (Etta James) where the music mostly cuts out. It was a Billboard Hot 100.
Dance music (especially techno and house) in general is full of instrumental tracks, maybe with some stray unsung sampled words, though it's hair-splitting time if someone wants to categorize it into "pop" or not. ("Anything that's not classical, jazz or folk" is one of the typical musicological definitions.) If the definition is things that have charted, the Mortal Kombat soundtrack also hit #10 on the Billboard top 200, so feel free to test your might.