Eurodance is style of dance music, popular in Europe during 1990s.

It is characterized by female vocals, with simple chorus, male rap parts, or male vocals, a strong beat from 110 to 150 BPM with synthetiziser melody.

Eurodance is named from the fact that it was mainly popular in Europe and produced mostly in Italy, Germany, Sweden and Netherlands. In addition to the most popular groups, there were hundreds of Eurodance projects.

Eurodance is very much commercial music. Some producers, like swedish Max Martin, were behind dozens of bands. If members of band became too demanding, they could be fired. Many bands didn't survive more than one or two records.

Some people think that female vocalists seemed to have been selected rather by their looks than talents. Live performances were mostly play-backs, sometimes different female singer performing in studio recordings than on stage.

Some artists, like Danish Aqua, Daze or Hit'n'Hide are not usually considered eurodance, but fall into bubblegum category.

Other in between cases are Blümchen and Scooter, approaching happy hardcore -genre. Sash! , ATB, Antiloop! , that were mostly trance groups or Robert Miles whose music was catogorized dream dance

Some notable artist in genre include:

• 2 Unlimited
• Basic Element
• Cappella
• Captain Jack
• Culture Beat
• DJ Bobo
• Dune
• E-Rotic
• E-Type
• Haddaway
• Ice MC
• Imperio
• Jam & Spoon
• La Bouche
• La Cream
• Leila K
• Magic Affair
• Masterboy
• MAXX
• Pandora
• Pharao
• Real McCoy
• Sash!
• Scooter
• Snap!
• Solid Base
• U96
• Whigfield

See also

• The Eurodance Encyclopædia: http://eurokdj.free.fr