Pop · 1990s

Pop loudness in the 1990s

-11.4 Median integrated LUFS
-17 to -7.8 Range
106 Tracks

Loudness distribution

-17 to -16 LUFS: 2 tracks-16 to -15 LUFS: 5 tracks-15 to -14 LUFS: 12 tracks-14 to -13 LUFS: 7 tracks-13 to -12 LUFS: 16 tracks-12 to -11 LUFS: 15 tracks-11 to -10 LUFS: 14 tracks-10 to -9 LUFS: 22 tracks-9 to -8 LUFS: 8 tracks-8 to -7 LUFS: 5 tracks -17 LUFS -12 LUFS -7 LUFS

Dynamic range distribution

10 to 11 DR: 3 tracks11 to 12 DR: 17 tracks12 to 13 DR: 29 tracks13 to 14 DR: 13 tracks14 to 15 DR: 16 tracks15 to 16 DR: 11 tracks16 to 17 DR: 6 tracks17 to 18 DR: 6 tracks18 to 19 DR: 5 tracks 10 DR 14 DR 19 DR

Loudest and quietest

Loudest: T&P Combo
311
-7.8 LUFS
Quietest: Couldn’t Bear to Be Special
Prefab Sprout
-17.0 LUFS

Most-represented engineers

Joe Gastwirt
n=27 · median -10 LUFS
Leon Zervos
n=13 · median -8.7 LUFS

Other decades

Pop in the 2000s →

This database is hand-curated and not exhaustive — treat this cohort as a sample of 106 measured tracks, not a survey of every Pop release from the 1990s.