Italo-disco is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Italy in the early 1980s. The origin of the name is due to the activities of the German record company ZYX Music, which originally used it to refer to Italian disco on their releases. The term also referred to the European dance music of the 1980s in General (synth-pop, Euro-disco, high energy). The genre's popularity peaked in the mid-1980s.
With the commercial success of artists such as Savage, Gazebo, Ryan Paris, and P. Lion, in 1983 Italo-disco entered the mainstream of popular music and was standardized. During this time, many commercially successful singles were released and many labels were founded ? Sensation Records, Memory Records, American Disco, OUT, Crash, Merak Music, etc. the Popular label Discomagic Records released more than thirty singles during the year. The term \"Italo-disco\" became popular in 1983, after the first series of collections \"The Best of Italo Disco\", which was released until 1991 and contained 16 issues in total. It was first used on the cover of the German release of Amin Peck's single \" Girls On Me?
