600 Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) Artists Monthly Spotify Listenership.
The vast majority of these numbers are up from when I compiled one of these in June 2022. I’d like to give a particular shoutout to the artists whose monthly Spotify listenership massively increased over the last nine months:
Ghost, Deftones, Falling In Reverse, Megadeth, Pierce The Veil, Slayer, Judas Priest, Rob Zombie, I Prevail, Neck Deep, Bad Omens, In Flames, Testament, The Word Alive, Parkway Drive, Ice Nine Kills, Beartooth, Wage War, Polyphia, BABYMETAL, Powerwolf, Caskets, Emmure, Dayseeker, Lorna Shore, Steve Vai, The Ghost Inside, Avatar, Municipal Waste, Make Them Suffer, Loathe, Carcass, Thousand Below, and Insomnium.
I covered a wide variety of subgenres, digging through the rosters of various management companies, booking agencies, and record labels, in an effort to give a robust look at the health of the genre and how multiple bands are faring. Which marketing efforts paid off? Which tours helped build an audience? Hopefully, seeing this kind of data offers a bit of help in your decision-making.
Monthly Spotify Listeners
As of March 23, 2023
44.3M - Queen
33.4M - Linkin Park
27.7M - Red Hot Chili Peppers
26.6M - Nirvana
26.0M - AC/DC
25.6M - Guns N’ Roses
25.3M - Måneskin
25.0M - Metallica
23.8M - Green Day
23.6M - Bon Jovi
22.3M - Aerosmith
22.0M - Panic! At The Disco
21.7M - Twenty One Pilots
21.1M - Fall Out Boy
18.8M - Pink Floyd
18.7M - Paramore
18.6M - Foo Fighters
17.6M - Led Zeppelin
16.2M - Journey
15.9M - blink-182
15.7M - System Of A Down
15.6M - The Offspring
14.4M - Kordhell
14.1M - Machine Gun Kelly
14.0M - Nickelback
13.3M - My Chemical Romance
13.1M - KISS
13.1M - Black Sabbath
12.7M - Muse
12.7M - Pearl Jam
12.4M - Cage The Elephant
12.3M - Weezer
12.3M - Scorpions
12.0M - Limp Bizkit
11.6M - Bring Me The Horizon
11.4M - Van Halen
11.3M - Slipknot
10.7M - Evanescence
10.5M - Papa Roach
10.4M - Rammstein
10.3M - Disturbed
9.91M - The Smashing Pumpkins
9.82M - 3 Doors Down
9.71M - Three Days Grace
9.40M - Korn
9.23M - Rage Against The Machine
8.96M - Ghost
8.74M - Ozzy Osbourne
8.23M - Sum 41
8.20M - Mötley Crüe
8.00M - Avenged Sevenfold
7.99M - Iron Maiden
7.96M - Jimmy Eat World
7.86M - Deftones
7.71M - Def Leppard
7.28M - All Time Low
7.26M - YUNGBLUD
7.22M - Skillet
7.01M - Audioslave
6.98M - Alice In Chains
6.74M - Five Finger Death Punch
6.64M - Rise Against
6.61M - Queens Of The Stone Age
6.55M - Deep Purple
6.48M - Falling In Reverse
6.32M - Breaking Benjamin
6.27M - Incubus
6.20M - Marilyn Manson
6.01M - Seether
5.85M - Ghostemane
5.60M - Pantera
5.55M - Shinedown
5.50M - Stone Temple Pilots
5.45M - Whitesnake
5.29M - Megadeth
5.28M - Pierce The Veil
5.23M - Good Charlotte
5.21M - Slayer
5.01M - Judas Priest
4.95M - Godsmack
4.91M - Volbeat
4.85M - Alice Cooper
4.83M - A Day To Remember
4.79M - Rob Zombie
4.72M - Motörhead
4.54M - Hollywood Undead
4.19M - I Prevail
4.18M - Greta Van Fleet
4.11M - Nine Inch Nails
4.10M - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
3.88M - Placebo
3.81M - Staind
3.79M - Neck Deep
3.67M - Dropkick Murphys
3.63M - TOOL
3.56M - Daughtry
3.50M - Faith No More
3.48M - Skid Row
3.38M - Thousand Foot Krutch
3.33M - Theory Of A Deadman
3.31M - Bush
3.24M - P.O.D.
3.22M - Motionless In White
3.21M - Royal Blood
3.12M - Bad Omens
3.11M - The Used
3.11M - Sabaton
3.08M - ONE OK ROCK
3.02M - Bowling For Soup
3.01M - Asking Alexandria
3.00M - Bad Wolves
2.97M - Hinder
2.98M - AFI
2.95M - Danzig
2.91M - Manchester Orchestra
2.88M - Set It Off
2.76M - STARSET
2.68M - Saliva
2.65M - In Flames
2.64M - PVRIS
2.63M - Sleeping With Sirens
2.62M - Chevelle
2.61M - Apocalyptica
2.54M - Halestorm
2.53M - Lamb Of God
2.51M - The Plot In You
2.49M - Escape The Fate
2.48M - Taking Back Sunday
2.46M - Killswitch Engage
2.39M - Nightwish
2.37M - Testament
2.36M - We Came As Romans
2.30M - Mudvayne
2.29M - Our Last Night
2.28M - I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME
2.27M - Atreyu
2.19M - Black Veil Brides
2.18M - Within Temptation
2.10M - Alter Bridge
2.08M - You Me At Six
2.05M - The Word Alive
2.04M - Waterparks
2.03M - Of Mice & Men
2.03M - Misfits
2.02M - Gojira
2.01M - Mayday Parade
1.99M - Parkway Drive
1.97M - Ice Nine Kills
1.94M - Story Of The Year
1.93M - Palaye Royale
1.92M - Beartooth
1.91M - Pop Evil
1.91M - DragonForce
1.89M - Architects
1.87M - The Pretty Reckless
1.88M - Buckcherry
1.85M - Bad Religion
1.82M - Dope
1.76M - New Found Glory
1.76M - Wage War
1.75M - All That Remains
1.74M - The Rasmus
1.73M - Poppy
1.70M - Trivium
1.59M - Flogging Molly
1.68M - MOTHICA
1.68M - Polyphia
1.65M - Static-X
1.64M - Machine Head
1.62M - Silverstein
1.62M - BABYMETAL
1.61M - Powerwolf
1.61M - Amaranthe
1.61M - Dashboard Confessional
1.59M - Sepultura
1.57M - Anthrax
1.57M - From Ashes To New
1.50M - In This Moment
1.48M - Dream Theater
1.47M - Amon Amarth
1.45M - Fame On Fire
1.45M - 10 Years
1.45M - Memphis May Fire
1.44M - Accept
1.42M - Caskets
1.41M - Biffy Clyro
1.41M - Coheed And Cambria
1.41M - Rancid
1.40M - Point North
1.40M - Hatebreed
1.39M - NOFX
1.38M - Black Label Society
1.35M - Turnstile
1.35M - The HU
1.32M - Underoath
1.31M - NOTHING MORE
1.30M - Slash
1.29M - Helloween
1.26M - Silversun Pickups
1.24M - HammerFall
1.23M - The Amity Affliction
1.22M - Spiritbox
1.22M - Type O Negative
1.20M - As I Lay Dying
1.18M - Mastodon
1.16M - Kim Dracula
1.16M - Dance Gavin Dance
1.14M - Primus
1.14M - Queensrÿche
1.14M - Kreator
1.13M - Emmure
1.12M - State Champs
1.12M - Arch Enemy
1.11M - Thrice
1.09M - Angels & Airwaves
1.07M - Manowar
1.07M - Dayseeker
1.07M - Social Distortion
1.05M - Rival Sons
1.04M - Hawthorne Heights
1.03M - Pennywise
1.02M - Red
1.01M - Badflower
1.01M - Currents
1.00M - Stand Atlantic
1.00M - All Good Things
988k - Lorna Shore
996k - Fear Factory
980k - Holding Absence
964k - The Devil Wears Prada
951k - The Ataris
935k - The Story So Far
926k - Fit For A King
900k - With Confidence
899k - Sevendust
892k - Steve Vai
888k - Polaris
877k - The Ghost Inside
869k - Knocked Loose
868k - Stratovarius
866k - Senses Fail
860k - August Burns Red
856k - HUNNY
853k - State Of Mine
836k - Clutch
826k - Avatar
826k - Alestorm
818k - Suicide Silence
817k - Crown The Empire
811k - Movements
808k - Bury Tomorrow
801k - Municipal Waste
800k - Epica
791k - Opeth
790k - The Interrupters
790k - While She Sleeps
781k - Cold
774k - Make Them Suffer
772k - Enter Shikari
761k - Eluveitie
751k - Meshuggah
750k - Blessthefall
747k - Descendents
745k - Less Than Jake
745k - Loathe
738k - Blind Guardian
737k - Scene Queen
735k - Icon For Hire
723k - Slaughter To Prevail
720k - Avantasia
718k - Fire From The Gods
709k - Korpiklaani
706k - Chelsea Grin
701k - Bayside
698k - Soilwork
694k - Lacuna Coil
691k - Cannibal Corpse
687k - Joyce Manor
677k - Throw The Fight
665k - Attila
668k - Boston Manor
682k - Alpha Wolf
668k - Corey Taylor
668k - BONES UK
664k - Ace Frehley
663k - Miss May I
656k - Joe Satriani
649k - Periphery
648k - Ministry
640k - Minor Threat
640k - Real Friends
639k - LANDMVRKS
637k - Soulfly
636k - Alexisonfire
628k - FEVER 333
618k - Thy Art Is Murder
605k - Against Me!
602k - Mushroomhead
595k - Kublai Khan TX
592k - The Mars Volta
588k - Demon Hunter
573k - Dead Poet Society
570k - Northlane
568k - Andy Black
566k - Upon A Burning Body
560k - Cradle Of Filth
551k - I See Stars
550k - The Bouncing Souls
544k - Melvins
541k - Carcass
537k - Lordi
534k - Jinjer
525k - Sonata Arctica
514k - DON BROCO
510k - Behemoth
500k - Monster Magnet
494k - Exodus
492k - Black Flag
483k - DevilDriver
465k - La Dispute
461k - PUP
455k - Whitechapel
447k - girlfriends
445k - AS IT IS
443k - Frank Turner
440k - Four Year Strong
430k - Gloryhammer
425k - Nita Strauss
425k - Veil Of Maya
424k - After The Burial
419k - The Menzingers
416k - Ill Niño
413k - ERRA
412k - MxPx
409k - Thousand Below
405k - The Sword
402k - Knuckle Puck
401k - Through Fire
391k - Chon
390k - Katatonia
388k - Varials
373k - Circa Survive
373k - Story Untold
370k - Refused
362k - Kamelot
360k - Paradise Lost
357k - Palisades
355k - Crystal Lake
353k - Obituary
352k - Hyro The Hero
351k - Kingdom Of Giants
351k - Fit For An Autopsy
345k - Being As An Ocean
345k - Mayhem
344k - Heaven Shall Burn
340k - Animals As Leaders
337k - Body Count
336k - At The Drive-In
330k - Vended
329k - Amigo The Devil
318k - Born Of Osiris
318k - The Acacia Strain
314k - Amorphis
312k - Gemini Syndrome
304k - Insomnium
304k - Mammoth WVH
302k - Zeal & Ardor
299k - New Years Day
296k - Sylosis
295k - Jerry Cantrell
292k - Thursday
291k - The Vandals
283k - Butcher Babies
282k - Wargasm (UK)
281k - Decapitated
279k - Dark Tranquility
275k - At The Gates
274k - Code Orange
265k - Fit For Rivals
265k - Kataklysm
264k - Invent Animate
262k - Red Fang
260k - Napalm Death
257k - Mannequin Pussy
250k - Drug Church
247k - Betraying The Martyrs
243k - Death Angel
240k - Comeback Kid
239k - The Haunted
230k - Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows
226k - The Dillinger Escape Plan
225k - Scowl
224k - Power Trip
224k - Stick To Your Guns
227k - Overkill
226k - Pussy Riot
220k - Ensiferum
219k - Every Time I Die
216k - Norma Jean
213k - Satyricon
212k - NanowaR of Steel
211k - Night Riots
206k - Cattle Decapitation
206k - The Halo Effect
205k - Archetypes Collide
205k - The Black Dahlia Murder
205k - Devin Townsend
204k - Twiztid
204k - Cane Hill
202k - Dying Fetus
201k - Unearth
199k - Spite
197k - Disciple
196k - Candlemass
193k - Carnifex
192k - TesseracT
189k - Darkthrone
189k - Killer Be Killed
189k - Wintersun
188k - Moonspell
186k - Enslaved
185k - The Bronx
185k - Within Destruction
177k - Haste The Day
177k - Deafheaven
174k - Between The Buried And Me
171k - Touche Amore
167k - Agnostic Front
165k - Silent Planet
164k - Emery
163k - Celtic Frost
162k - Vein.fm
161k - Wolves At The Gate
159k - Stray From The Path
158k - Ignite
156k - Ihsahn
154k - Baroness
154k - The Contortionist
154k - Mr. Bungle
153k - Evergrey
152k - Terror
151k - Converge
150k - King Diamond
146k - Darkest Hour
145k - Tremonti
145k - Crowbar
141k - Glassjaw
140k - Gwar
140k - Marty Friedman
137k - The Linda Lindas
134k - Tiger Army
129k - Primal Fear
129k - Protest The Hero
128k - Evile
124k - Quicksand
122k - Lilith Czar
122k - Finntroll
118k - Madball
118k - Nile
114k - Sick Of It All
114k - Cro-Mags
114k - Kvelertak
113k - H2O
112k - The Letter Black
112k - L.S. Dunes
111k - Tetrarch
110k - Gorilla Biscuits
108k - Creeper
105k - Life Of Agony
105k - Dying Wish
104k - Within The Ruins
100k - Bleeding Through
100k - Throwdown
100k - Mindforce
100k - Vanna
99k - Unto Others
98k - Enterprise Earth
97k - Full Of Hell
97k - Incendiary
93k - Caner Bats
91k - Wednesday 13
90k - The Agonist
87k - Toxic Holocaust
85k - High On Fire
83k - Destruction
82k - Revocation
82k - Rivers Of Nihil
81k - My Dying Bride
81k - Poison The Well
77k - Armored Saint
75k - The Juliana Theory
74k - Harms Way
73k - Cult Of Luna
73k - ONI
72k - Stitched Up Heart
72k - Fear
72k - Sacred Reich
69k - Soul Glo
67k - Winds Of Plague
66k - Warbringer
65k - Eighteen Visions
65k - Cave In
64k - Jynx
63k - Gatecreeper
58k - War Of Ages
58k - Primitive Man
51k - Greg Puciato
46k - Nekromantix
45k - Horrorpops
45k - Elegant Weapons
43k - Liturgy
42k - Zao
39k - ’68
37k - Youth Of Today
36k - Wolves In The Throne Room
36k - Allluvial
34k - Mad Sin
34k - Blood Incantation
33k - DREGG
32k - Spirit Adrift
31k - Twitching Tongues
29k - Great American Ghost
27k - Vio-Lence
26k - The Callous Daoboys
26k - Higher Power
25k - Doyle
24k - Integrity
24k - Judge
22k - Undeath
21k - Escuela Grind
21k - Exciter
21k - Dead Cross
20k - Living Sacrifice
18k - Creeping Death
16k - Evil Invaders
16k - Wristmeetrazor
11k - HolyName
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