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53 albums · 1968–2026

Music of Vietnam, from Trịnh Công Sơn and bolero to the divas, V-pop, indie and today

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A woman on the đàn bầu and a man on the đàn nguyệt in the orchestra of a water-puppet theatre in Hanoi
Mỹ Tâm singing into a microphone on stage in a dark dress with a sequined collarFour quan họ singers in dark dresses with coloured sashes and flat round hats singing in a pavilion by a pond
The musicians of a water-puppet theatre in Hanoi, on the đàn bầu and the đàn nguyệt. Photo: Davidlohr Bueso, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Mỹ Tâm at the MTV EXIT concert in Hanoi in 2012. Photo: USAID Vietnam, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. · Quan họ singers at the Đền Đô temple in Bắc Ninh, 2004. Photo: Chrisvomberg, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Vietnam's popular music has at its start, for this list, the ca trù of Quách Thị Hồ and the quan họ singers of Bắc Ninh and Phạm Duy's folk songs, then the Saigon tapes before 1975, Thái Thanh, Khánh Ly singing Trịnh Công Sơn and Lệ Thu, the bolero of Chế Linh, Thanh Tuyền and Tuấn Vũ, the divas of Hanoi, Thanh Lam, Hồng Nhung, Mỹ Linh, Trần Thu Hà and Tùng Dương, the pop of Lam Trường and Mỹ Tâm, the rock of Bức Tường, the indie of Lê Cát Trọng Lý and Ngọt, the hip hop of Suboi and Đen, Sơn Tùng M-TP and Hoàng Thùy Linh today, and Đặng Thái Sơn's Chopin. The list has 53 records from 1968 to 2026, one or two by each of the names above and only a small part of what they made, the singers who went on recording abroad after 1975 counted as Vietnam's; Hòa Minzy, Thái Vũ and Rhymastic have no album on Deezer and Hải Bột is here with his band Quái Vật Tí Hon, and the court music of Huế, cải lương beyond a nod, the song of the highlands and most of the classical tradition would each need a list of their own. About 44 hours of music, 5 days of a few records each.

By genre

Pop 20%Rock 14%Latin 4%Other 62%
  • Pop 20%
  • Rock 14%
  • Latin 4%
  • Other 62%

The genres named most: vietnamese, pop, v-pop, rock, indie, bolero.

The colours of the covers

A stripe for each cover, in the colour Tidal picks from it, sorted by hue; the greys at the end.

Where the music comes from

Music from 1 country: Vietnam 53. The deeper the colour, the more albums: one, two to four, five to nine, ten and more.

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