50 Biggest Hard Rock Videos Since 2012
Disturbed, Bad Wolves, Five Finger Death Punch, Slipknot & more
In This Issue:
The Top 50 Most-Watched Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) music videos on YouTube released since 2012, including:
Disturbed, Panic! At The Disco, Linkin Park, Bad Wolves, Fall Out Boy, Five Finger Death Punch, Slipknot, Rammstein, Skillet, Paramore, Avenged Sevenfold, One Ok Rock, Dropkick Murphys, Måneskin, Babymetal, Muse, Black Veil Brides, Bring Me The Horizon, Pierce The Veil, and more.
I’ve also listed the dozen Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) artists in YouTube’s 1 Billion Club, including Guns N’ Roses, Queen, Metallica, and more.
Plus, Foo Fighters, Korn, and the rest of the artists with the most No. 1 albums on the Billboard Hard Rock Chart, since the chart began in 2007.1
Biggest Videos/Last 10 Years 📺
By Total Views as of February 18, 2022
These are the Top 50 most-watched Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) music videos released in the last ten years. Linkin Park leads with seven videos in the Top 50, followed by Five Finger Death Punch (six), and Panic! At The Disco (four).
785M DISTURBED “The Sound of Silence” (2015)
647M PANIC! AT THE DISCO “High Hopes” (2018)
520M LINKIN PARK Castle of Glass” (2012)
437M BAD WOLVES “Zombie” (2018)
380M FALL OUT BOY “Centuries” (2014)
379M RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS “Dark Necessities” (2016)
362M FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH “Wrong Side of Heaven” (2014)
343M SLIPKNOT “The Devil In I” (2014)
329M LINKIN PARK “Burn It Down” (2012)
285M P!ATD “Emperor’s New Clothes” (2015)
283M FALL OUT BOY “Immortals” (2014)
261M RAMMSTEIN “Ich Will” (2015)
251M FFDP “Wash It All Away” (2015)
250M SKILLET “Feel Invincible” (2016)
224M LINKIN PARK “One More Light” (2017)
214M P!ATD “This Is Gospel” (2013)
211M PARAMORE “Still Into You” (2013)
210M AVENGED SEVENFOLD “Hail to the King” (2013)
208M RAMMSTEIN “Sonne” (2015)
188M ONE OK ROCK “The Beginning” (2012)
183M LINKIN PARK “Lost in the Echo” (2012)
182M LINKIN PARK “Heavy” (2017)
160M P!ATD “Death of a Bachelor” (2015)
158M DROPKICK MURPHYS “Rose Tattoo” (2012)
157M MÅNESKIN “Beggin’” (2017)
155M BABYMETAL “Gimme chocolate!” (2014)
153M RAMMSTEIN “Amerika” (2015)
151M MUSE “Madness” (2012)
149M PARAMORE “Ain’t It Fun” (2014)
148M BLACK VEIL BRIDES “In The End” (2012)
146M MÅNESKIN “Torna a casa” (2018)
142M BRING ME THE HORIZON “Throne” (2015)
141M LINKIN PARK “Talking To Myself” (2017)
141M PIERCE THE VEIL “King For A Day” (2012)
138M MÅNESKIN “Beggin’” (Lyrics) (2021)
135M SIMPLE PLAN “Summer Paradise” (2012)
130M FFDP “House of the Rising Sun” (2014)
129M FFDP “Remember Everything” (2012)
126M FFDP “I Apologize” (2016)
123M MÅNESKIN “ZITTI E BUONI” (2021)
120M CHRIS CORNELL “Nothing Compares 2 U” (2015)
118M PARAMORE “Hard Times” (2017)
114M LINKIN PARK “Final Masquerade” (2014)
113M SLIPKNOT “Killpop” (2015)
113M BMTH “Can You Feel My Heart” (2013)
113M ONE OK ROCK “Clock Strikes” (2013)
111M DISTURBED “The Vengeful One” (2015)
108M FALL OUT BOY “The Phoenix” (2017)
107M IN THIS MOMENT “Whore” (2013)
105M FFDP “Jekyll And Hyde” (2015)
I left Twenty One Pilots off of the list as, for one, I still regularly debate whether or not they fall into the “adjacent” category covered by Stream N’ Destroy, and for two, as members of YouTube’s 1 Billion club (thanks to three different videos), they’d unfairly weight my attempt at a Top 50. But for anyone curious, here are the Top 10 TØP music videos:
2.4B “Stressed Out” (2015)
1.8B “Heathens” (2016)
1.2B “Ride” (2015)
437M “Chlorine” (2019)
342M “Stressed Out” Remix (2016)
275M “Car Radio” (2013)
273M “Lane Boy” (2015)
193M “Tear In My Heart” (2015)
167M “House of Gold” (2013)
164M “Fairly Local” (2015)
YouTube’s 1 Billion Club
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Includes the year it was uploaded to YouTube (which began in 2005).
1.8B Guns N’ Roses “November Rain” (2009)
1.7B Linkin Park “Numb” (2007)
1.4B Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (2008)
1.4B Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (2009)
1.3B Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” (2009)
1.3B Linkin Park “In The End” (2009)
1.2B 4 Non Blondes “What’s Up” (2011)
1.1B The Cranberries “Zombie” (2009)
1.1B System Of A Down “Chop Suey!” (2009)
1B Metallica “Nothing Else Matters” (2009)
1B Bon Jovi “It’s My Life” (2009)
1B AC/DC “Thunderstruck” (2012)
1B Evanescence “Bring Me To Life” (2009)
A few cross-genre milestones:
“November Rain” first video made before 2005 to reach 1B (2018)
“Numb” first 2000s video made before 2005 (2018)
“Bohemian Rhapsody” first pre-90s video (2019)
“Sweet Child O’ Mine” first 80s video (2019)
I believe I was pretty thorough in my search, but do let me know if I missed anything in these lists, and I’ll add it right away.
Most No. 1s, Hard Rock Albums
Billboard published a list of the artists with the most No. 1 albums on their Hard Rock Chart, which began in 2007. These bands each have six No. 1 Hard Rock Albums:
Five Finger Death Punch
Foo Fighters
Korn
Linkin Park
Pearl Jam
These bands each have five:
Breaking Benjamin
Disturbed
Marilyn Manson
Nickelback
Sources: Billboard, YouTube