Het genre kreeg aanzienlijke bekendheid door een officiële hyperpop-afspeellijst op Spotify in augustus 2019 en het gebruik van het genre op andere internetplatformen zoals TikTok.[3][2]
↑(en) Dandrige-Lemco, Ben, How Hyperpop, a Small Spotify Playlist, Grew Into a Big Deal. The New York Times (10 november 2020). Gearchiveerd op 10 november 2020. Geraadpleegd op 9 juli 2021. “The microgenre — fueled by teen upstarts like osquinn and glaive, and more established names like 100 gecs and A.G. Cook — has a modest but dedicated following, and many different kinds of sounds. (...) the forerunners of the distorted pop sound that’s become associated with the term (...) For our categorization purposes it was mostly a matter of waiting to see if enough artists would coalesce around a similar ebullient electro-maximalism”
↑(en) Enis, Eli, This is Hyperpop: A Genre Tag for Genre-less Music. Vice (27 oktober 2020). Gearchiveerd op 6 juli 2021. Geraadpleegd op 9 juli 2021. “In August 2019, the official Spotify “hyperpop” playlist launched with 100 gecs on its cover, and it’s currently the primary engine for promoting, popularising and codifying hyperpop writ large.”