GLOBAL YOUTUBE VIEWS1 over the last 28 days for 450 hard rock, metal, and punk(ish) artists. Did I miss somebody important?2 Let me know.
Queen 155M
Linkin Park 151M
Twenty One Pilots 128M
Metallica 112M
Guns N’ Roses 105M
AC/DC 103M
Red Hot Chili Peppers 78.6M
Bon Jovi 77.4M
Nirvana 73.5M
Machine Gun Kelly 72.4M
Green Day 56.8M
Fall Out Boy 54.6M
Skillet 52.7M
System Of A Down 50.6M
Rammstein 45.1M
Scorpions 44.1M
Five Finger Death Punch 42.4M
Avenged Sevenfold 41.4M
Nickelback 41.2M
Evanescence 40M
Aerosmith 39.4M
Panic! At The Disco 38.2M
Disturbed 36.7M
Pink Floyd 36.5M
Iron Maiden 36.5M
Paramore 35.6M
Led Zeppelin 35.4M
Bring Me The Horizon 33.8M
The Cranberries 33.7M
Three Days Grace 31.8M
Foo Fighters 31.1M
KISS 30M
Sabaton 29.8M
Gym Class Heroes 28.6M
Journey 28.3M
The Offspring 27.8M
My Chemical Romance 27.3M
ONE OK ROCK 26.9M
Korn 25.4M
Blink-182 24.2M
Pearl Jam 24M
Muse 23.6M
Audioslave 22.9M
Marilyn Manson 22.1M
Shinedown 21.6M
Limp Bizkit 21.5M
Breaking Benjamin 19.7M
Alice In Chains 19.3M
Black Sabbath 19.2M
3 Doors Down 19.2M
Nightwish 19.1M
Thousand Foot Krutch 18.7M
Def Leppard 18.6M
Ozzy Osbourne 17.7M
Seether 16.4M
Godsmack 15.9M
Mötley Crüe 15.3M
Van Halen 15M
Falling In Reverse 14.8M
Creed 14.8M
Starset 14.7M
Papa Roach 14M
Hollywood Undead 13.9M
The Cure 13.8M
Weezer 13.7M
Deep Purple 13.3M
Pantera 13.1M
Volbeat 13M
Staind 13M
Rage Against The Machine 12.8M
Against The Current 12.2M
Bad Wolves 12.1M
Megadeth 11.5M
Judas Priest 11.3M
The Smashing Pumpkins 11.3M
Simple Plan 11.3M
Daughtry 11.2M
Bullet For My Valentine 10.6M
Powerwolf 10.3M
Sum 41 10.3M
Thirty Seconds To Mars 9.98M
Deftones 9.66M
Greta Van Fleet 9.59M
Motionless In White 9.36M
Theory Of A Deadman 9.29M
Rise Against 9.03M
Whitesnake 8.98M
The Smiths 8.93M
Our Last Night 8.81M
Incubus 8.44M
BABYMETAL 8.3M
Soundgarden 8.26M
A Day To Remember 8.21M
Manchester Orchestra 8.16M
All Time Low 8.11M
I Prevail 8.11M
Halestorm 8.06M
Rob Zombie 7.89M
In This Moment 7.71M
Motörhead 7.64M
Asking Alexandria 7.56M
The Pretty Reckless 7.08M
The Clash 7.08M
DragonForce 7.07M
Stone Temple Pilots 6.99M
Rush 6.99M
Ramones 6.79M
Lamb Of God 6.63M
Queens Of The Stone Age 6.39M
Trivium 6.38M
Stone Sour 6.36M
Nine Inch Nails 6.35M
Dropkick Murphys 6.29M
The All-American Rejects 6.23M
Chevelle 6.18M
Pierce The Veil 6.09M
Slayer 6.06M
Ghost 5.72M
Alice Cooper 5.71M
Black Veil Brides 5.68M
Boston 5.68M
Killswitch Engage 5.53M
Highly Suspect 5.48M
Pixies 5.15M
Helloween 5.07M
Poison 4.99M
Dio 4.95M
Twisted Sister 4.91M
Gojira 4.88M
Dream Theater 4.87M
Hinder 4.86M
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus 4.82M
Royal Blood 4.76M
P.O.D. 4.75M
Set It Off 4.71M
Good Charlotte 4.7M
Bush 4.67M
Blue Öyster Cult 4.62M
Sleeping With Sirens 4.47M
Mudvayne 4.4M
A Perfect Circle 4.28M
Ice Nine Kills 3.9M
IDKHOW 3.9M
Escape The Fate 3.78M
Sepultura 3.69M
Drowning Pool 3.65M
Tesla 3.63M
Arch Enemy 3.61M
Faith No More 3.61M
Manowar 3.6M
The Misfits 3.58M
Saliva 3.45M
Amon Amarth 3.32M
In Flames 3.29M
Jimmy Eat World 3.27M
Pop Evil 3.26M
Beartooth 3.22M
Parkway Drive 3.11M
Bowling For Soup 2.97M
Black Label Society 2.96M
The Cult 2.95M
Dance Gavin Dance 2.9M
Static-X 2.9M
Buckcherry 2.83M
Alter Bridge 2.71M
Trapt 2.7M
All That Remains 2.67M
Joe Satriani 2.67M
AFI 2.65M
The Amity Affliction 2.62M
Nothing More 2.62M
Coheed And Cambria 2.6M
HELLYEAH 2.6M
Epica 2.59M
Slash 2.53M
Accept 2.48M
NOFX 2.46M
Ratt 2.44M
Stratovarius 2.43M
Get Scared 2.42M
Velvet Revolver 2.39M
Queensrÿche 2.39M
Neck Deep 2.36M
Danzig 2.36M
Angels & Airwaves 2.33M
Warrant 2.3M
Mushroomhead 2.29M
Clutch 2.27M
Anthrax 2.24M
Cradle Of Filth 2.24M
Of Mice & Men 2.22M
Type O Negative 2.22M
Memphis May Fire 2.18M
Alestorm 2.17M
The Used 2.16M
Suicide Silence 2.12M
Twiztid 2.1M
Yellowcard 2.1M
Morrissey 2.1M
Taking Back Sunday 2.09M
Echosmith 2.1M
As I Lay Dying 2.1M
Switchfoot 1.95M
Rancid 1.94M
Sex Pistols 1.92M
Atreyu 1.9M
Social Distortion 1.89M
Born Of Osiris 1.85M
Icon For Hire 1.82M
Wage War 1.8M
Fozzy 1.8M
Opeth 1.74M
Cannibal Corpse 1.74M
Bad Religion 1.72M
New Found Glory 1.71M
Rhapsody Of Fire 1.7M
Lacuna Coil 1.69M
Dokken 1.69M
Mastodon 1.68M
Avatar 1.66M
Thrice 1.64M
We Came As Romans 1.63M
Steel Panther 1.6M
Machine Head 1.58M
Sonata Arctica 1.56M
Eluveitie 1.55M
HammerFall 1.52M
Children Of Bodom 1.49M
While She Sleeps 1.48M
Attila 1.46M
Fear Factory 1.46M
Angra 1.43M
Flogging Molly 1.43M
August Burns Red 1.42M
10 Years 1.41M
Behemoth 1.4M
Goldfinger 1.4M
Suicidal Tendencies 1.4M
Hatebreed 1.39M
Silverstein 1.35M
Nine Lashes 1.35M
Korpiklaani 1.34M
Turnstile 1.32M
Meshuggah 1.31M
Dimmu Borgir 1.31M
PVRIS 1.25M
Biffy Clyro 1.25M
Ministry 1.24M
Brand New 1.23M
Dead Kennedys 1.21M
I See Stars 1.18M
Blind Guardian 1.18M
Demon Hunter 1.15M
Periphery 1.15M
Avantasia 1.15M
Sixx:A.M. 1.12M
Pennywise 1.11M
Crown The Empire 1.11M
Paradise Lost 1.04M
Breathe Carolina 1.02M
Hawthorne Heights 1.02M
Underoath 1.01M
Kamelot 998k
Testament 983k
Kreator 983k
Fit For A King 981k
The Story So Far 971k
Dashboard Confessional 945k
Enter Shikari 930k
Texas Hippie Coalition 927k
Whitechapel 904k
Insomnium 873k
Saosin 844k
You Me At Six 840k
ERRA 835k
Soulfly 826k
Exodus 822k
City And Colour 819k
Iced Earth 813k
After The Burial 812k
Mayhem 810k
Story Of The Year 798k
Skunk Annie 797k
State Champs 795k
Stryper 790k
Thy Art Is Murder 766k
Burzum 765k
Alkaline Trio 762k
Issues 758k
The Devil Wears Prada 746k
The Maine 743k
Ensiferum 738k
Otherwise 717k
Less Than Jake 714k
Northlane 708k
Corrosion Of Conformity 704k
Alesana 689k
Descendents 689k
Sandra 663k
Amorphis 662k
Blessthefall 660k
Coal Chamber 659k
Rival Sons 658k
Delain 637k
Animals As Leaders 629k
Down 625k
New Years Day 622k
Veil Of Maya 620k
Gemini Syndrome 602k
Love And Death 595k
Senses Fail 590k
Kittie 581k
The Mars Volta 573k
Ill Niño 572k
Attack Attack! 564k
Dark Tranquility 563k
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes 562k
Gwar 560k
MxPx 550k
Relient K 549k
Butcher Babies 526k
Millencolin 520k
Carcass 519k
The Ataris 515k
TesseracT 512k
Between The Buried And Me 506k
Anberlin 499k
Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! 498k
Katatonia 495k
Fireflight 487k
Black Flag 482k
At The Gates 472k
L.A. Guns 470k
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
Against Me! 469k
The Winery Dogs 466k
Emmure 457k
Morbid Angel 456k
Six Feet Under 455k
Napalm Death 454k
Tonight Alive 453k
Orgy 450k
Modern Baseball 449k
Edguy 448k
The Ghost Inside 444k
Anti-Flag 441k
Upon A Burning Body 438k
Immortal 436k
Satyricon 434k
Lagwagon 434k
Frank Turner 432k
The Black Dahlia Murder 431k
Skindred 422k
Savatage 421k
Annihilator 420k
Obituary 394k
Mr. Bungle 389k
Overkill 386k
Circa Survive 386k
Oceans Ate Alaska 380k
Miss May I 378k
Knocked Loose 375k
Soilwork 374k
Volumes 366k
Alexisonfire 365k
Devin Townsend 364k
Moonspell 362k
Deicide 362k
Hands Like Houses 359k
Red Fang 355k
Symphony X 355k
Say Anything 352k
The Word Alive 351k
Trans-Siberian Orchestra 337k
Murderdolls 325k
Carnifex 323k
Vader 323k
DevilDriver 323k
Dream Evil 316k
Emarosa 315k
Brujeria 315k
Motion City Soundtrack 307k
Mercyful Fate 300k
Four Year Strong 291k
No Use For A Name 290k
Turisas 290k
Tyr 284k
Cattle Decapitation 280k
Chimaira 271k
The Agonist 269k
Heaven Shall Burn 258k
Fleshgod Apocalypse 257k
The Wonder Years 254k
American Football 252k
Real Friends 251k
As It Is 245k
D.R.I. 245k
Marduk 238k
Terror 233k
Code Orange 232k
Disciple 228k
Baroness 228k
Strung Out 216k
Mad Caddies 215k
Municipal Waste 211k
Tiamat 206k
The Dillinger Escape Plan 205k
Crosses (†††) 199k
Refused 199k
Finntroll 197k
Norma Jean 197k
Job For A Cowboy 183k
Sentenced 177k
Dissection 175k
Entombed 170k
High On Fire 168k
My Dying Bride 168k
Like Moths To Flames 168k
The Contortionist 167k
The Acacia Strain 158k
The Vandals 158k
Thursday 157k
Secrets 151k
Palisades 151k
Counterparts 147k
Emery 143k
Life Of Agony 142k
Circle Jerks 135k
Sleep 133k
Emperor 133k
Scary Kids Scaring Kids 131k
Shadows Fall 129k
Being As An Ocean 128k
Converge 121k
Leftöver Crack 120k
Sonic Syndicate 118k
Stick To Your Guns 108k
Mewithoutyou 106k
Unearth 106k
Betraying The Martyrs 97k
We Are The In Crowd 97k
Good Riddance 82.3k
Revocation 77.4k
Winds Of Plague 75.7k
Capture The Crown 73.3k
Anthony Green 70.3k
Oceano 67.9k
For All Those Sleeping 60.2k
The Faceless 55k
Pallbearer 51.1k
OFF! 33.5k
1 Billion Club (Hard Rock, Metal, Punkish)
Twenty One Pilots “Stressed Out” 2.3B (6 yrs)
Twenty One Pilots “Heathens” 1.7B (5 yrs)
Guns N’ Roses “November Rain” 1.6B (11 yrs)
Linkin Park “Numb” 1.6B (14 yrs)
Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” 1.3B (12 yrs)
Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” 1.3B (13 yrs)
Linkin Park “In the End” 1.2B (11 yrs)
Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” 1.2B (11 yrs)
Twenty One Pilots “Ride” 1.1B (6 yrs)
Metallica “Nothing Else Matters” 1B (11 yrs)
Bon Jovi “It’s My Life” 1B (12 yrs)
Note: data is not available for a few major acts, including Slipknot and TOOL, newer acts like Spiritbox, and a few that seem to be missing for no good reason at all.