GLOBAL YOUTUBE VIEWS over the last 28 days for 400 hard rock, metal, and punk(ish) adjacent artists. Note: data is not available for a few major acts, including Slipknot and TOOL (same with a few newer bands, like Spiritbox).
With that out of the way…
Twenty One Pilots 162M viewsÂ
Queen 147MÂ
Linkin Park 133MÂ
Metallica 108MÂ
AC/DC 106MÂ
Machine Gun Kelly 94.5MÂ
Bon Jovi 82.1MÂ
Nirvana 70.6MÂ
Green Day 59.8MÂ
Fall Out Boy 55MÂ
System Of A Down 53.9MÂ
Skillet 53.9MÂ
Rammstein 53MÂ
Five Finger Death Punch 47.9MÂ
Scorpions 46.7MÂ
Nickelback 43.3MÂ
Avenged Sevenfold 42.4MÂ
Evanescence 41.4MÂ
Aerosmith 40.7MÂ
Panic! At The Disco 39.3MÂ
Pink Floyd 38.8MÂ
Disturbed 38.6MÂ
Three Days Grace 35.8MÂ
Bring Me The Horizon 38.5MÂ
Led Zeppelin 37.7MÂ
Sabaton 36.6MÂ
Paramore 36.3MÂ
The Cranberries 35MÂ
The Offspring 29.7MÂ
My Chemical Romance 29.1MÂ
Journey 27.7MÂ
KISS 26.3MÂ
Korn 25.9MÂ
Iron Maiden 25.3MÂ
Pearl Jam 24.8MÂ
Audioslave 24.7MÂ
Muse 24.6MÂ
Thirty Seconds To Mars 24.5MÂ
Blink-182 24.3MÂ
Limp Bizkit 22.9MÂ
Shinedown 22.9MÂ
Marilyn Manson 22.7MÂ
Nightwish 21.6MÂ
Def Leppard 20.8MÂ
Breaking Benjamin 20.7MÂ
Black Sabbath 20.5MÂ
Alice In Chains 20.4MÂ
3 Doors Down 20.3MÂ
Ozzy Osbourne 18.8MÂ
Godsmack 18.3MÂ
Europe 17.6MÂ
Thousand Foot Krutch 16.8MÂ
Falling In Reverse 16.7MÂ
Seether 16.6MÂ
Weezer 16.5MÂ
Papa Roach 16.2MÂ
Mötley Crüe 16.2MÂ
Van Halen 15.6MÂ
Creed 15.6MÂ
The Cure 14.6MÂ
Hollywood Undead 14.5MÂ
Pantera 14.2MÂ
Staind 14MÂ
Deep Purple 14MÂ
Rage Against The Machine 13.4MÂ
Bad Wolves 13.2MÂ
Simple Plan 13.1MÂ
Whitesnake 12.2MÂ
Our Last Night 11.9MÂ
The Smashing Pumpkins 11.8MÂ
Judas Priest 11.8MÂ
Megadeth 11.7MÂ
Theory Of A Deadman 11.5MÂ
Daughtry 11.3MÂ
Volbeat 11.3MÂ
Sum 41 11.1MÂ
All Time Low 10.1MÂ
Rise Against 9.73MÂ
Gojira 9.24MÂ
Bullet For My Valentine 9.23MÂ
Babymetal 9.18MÂ
I Prevail 9.08MÂ
The Smiths 9.06MÂ
Soundgarden 8.8MÂ
Halestorm 8.68MÂ
Incubus 8.66MÂ
Rob Zombie 8.52MÂ
Greta Van Fleet 8.28MÂ
A Day To Remember 8.19MÂ
Motionless In White 8.18MÂ
Asking Alexandria 7.83MÂ
DragonForce 7.5MÂ
Rush 7.33MÂ
Chevelle 7.32MÂ
Ramones 7.23MÂ
The Pretty Reckless 7.22MÂ
The Clash 7.2MÂ
Dropkick Murphys 7.16MÂ
Powerwolf 7.15MÂ
Motörhead 7.04MÂ
Stone Sour 6.96MÂ
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus 6.88MÂ
Nine Inch Nails 6.74MÂ
Black Veil Brides 6.64MÂ
Pierce The Veil 6.49MÂ
Lamb Of God 6.44MÂ
Queens Of The Stone Age 6.38MÂ
The All-American Rejects 6.37MÂ
Boston 6.22MÂ
Slayer 6.13MÂ
Ghost 6.12MÂ
Alice Cooper 5.96MÂ
Killswitch Engage 5.76MÂ
Hinder 5.74MÂ
Poison 5.7MÂ
Helloween 5.62MÂ
Mudvayne 5.6MÂ
Twisted Sister 5.45MÂ
Eskimo Callboy 5.42MÂ
Dream Theater 5.22MÂ
P.O.D. 5.08MÂ
Trivium 5.07MÂ
Good Charlotte 5.02MÂ
Blue Öyster Cult 4.9MÂ
Bush 4.89MÂ
Sleeping With Sirens 4.88MÂ
A Perfect Circle 4.39MÂ
Pixies 4.33MÂ
Escape The Fate 4.21MÂ
I Don’t Know How But They Found Me 4.04MÂ
Saliva 4.04MÂ
The Misfits 3.95MÂ
Pop Evil 3.95MÂ
Faith No More 3.82MÂ
Arch Enemy 3.82MÂ
Tesla 3.79MÂ
Live 3.74MÂ
Jimmy Eat World 3.71MÂ
Alien Ant Farm 3.68MÂ
Manowar 3.65MÂ
Amon Amarth 3.61MÂ
Sepultura 3.52MÂ
Black Label Society 3.48MÂ
In Flames 3.46MÂ
Parkway Drive 3.38MÂ
Dance Gavin Dance 3.29MÂ
Trapt 3.25MÂ
Static-X 3.25MÂ
Buckcherry 3.13MÂ
All That Remains 3.11MÂ
Nothing More 3.11MÂ
Hellyeah 2.91MÂ
Alter Bridge 2.88MÂ
Plain White T’s 2.79MÂ
Epica 2.76MÂ
Anthrax 2.73MÂ
The Amity Affliction 2.73MÂ
Of Mice & Men 2.72MÂ
Joe Satriani 2.67MÂ
Accept 2.63MÂ
Angels & Airwaves 2.52MÂ
AFI 2.5MÂ
White Zombie 2.47MÂ
Danzig 2.43MÂ
NOFX 2.43MÂ
Clutch 2.41MÂ
Warrant 2.39MÂ
Beartooth 2.36MÂ
Yellowcard 2.35MÂ
Type O Negative 2.34MÂ
Twiztid 2.3MÂ
Neck Deep 2.3MÂ
Queensrÿche 2.32MÂ
Morrissey 2.3MÂ
Alestorm 2.28MÂ
Taking Back Sunday 2.27MÂ
Coheed And Cambria 2.26MÂ
The Cult 2.2MÂ
As I Lay Dying 2.19MÂ
Suicide Silence 2.18MÂ
Death Cab For Cutie 2.13MÂ
Rancid 2.09MÂ
Social Distortion 2.09MÂ
Cradle Of Filth 2.09MÂ
Switchfoot 2.05MÂ
Stratovarious 2.05MÂ
Sex Pistols 2.04MÂ
Ninja Sex Party 2.04MÂ
Mastodon 2.03MÂ
Atreyu 2.02MÂ
Hole 1.9MÂ
New Found Glory 1.96MÂ
Ice Nine Kills 1.95MÂ
Wage War 1.89MÂ
Silverchair 1.89MÂ
Avatar 1.87MÂ
Cannibal Corpse 1.85MÂ
Sevendust 1.83MÂ
Bad Religion 1.83MÂ
Dokken 1.81MÂ
Fozzy 1.72M
W.A.S.P. 1.71MÂ
Sonata Arctica 1.64MÂ
Children Of Bodom 1.63MÂ
Opeth 1.62MÂ
Mayday Parade 1.62MÂ
Fear Factory 1.62MÂ
Jane’s Addiction 1.62MÂ
Thrice 1.59MÂ
HammerFall 1.56MÂ
Machine Head 1.52MÂ
Flogging Molly 1.52MÂ
Rhapsody Of Fire 1.51MÂ
August Burns Red 1.49MÂ
10 Years 1.49MÂ
Behemoth 1.45MÂ
Angra 1.45MÂ
Great White 1.45MÂ
Hatebreed 1.43MÂ
Meshuggah 1.43MÂ
Goldfinger 1.42MÂ
Suicidal Tendencies 1.41MÂ
Silverstein 1.39MÂ
Crown The Empire 1.35MÂ
Brand New 1.35MÂ
Born Of Osiris 1.35MÂ
The Devil Wears Prada 1.33MÂ
Dimmu Borgir 1.33MÂ
Airbourne 1.31MÂ
Pennywise 1.3MÂ
Dead Kennedys 1.27MÂ
Attila 1.26MÂ
Blind Guardian 1.25MÂ
Ministry 1.22MÂ
Periphery 1.22MÂ
PVRIS 1.2MÂ
Demon Hunter 1.19MÂ
The Mighty Mighty BossTones 1.15MÂ
Steel Panther 1.14MÂ
ERRA 1.13MÂ
Power Trip 1.12MÂ
Memphis May Fire 1.09MÂ
Avantasia 1.08MÂ
Texas Hippie Coalition 1.08MÂ
Testament 1.03MÂ
Dashboard Confessional 1.02MÂ
Eve 6 995kÂ
Story Of The Year 989kÂ
Kreator 975kÂ
Pepper 971kÂ
Kamelot 963kÂ
Hawthorne Heights 954kÂ
Monster Magnet 952kÂ
The Story So Far 948kÂ
Whitechapel 946kÂ
Devin Townsend 938kÂ
After The Burial 935kÂ
Northlane 933kÂ
State Champs 921kÂ
Issues 898kÂ
Fit For A King 896kÂ
Powerman 5000 873kÂ
Alkaline Trio 872kÂ
Butcher Babies 857kÂ
Exodus 854kÂ
Saosin 852kÂ
Cold 835kÂ
The Stooges 835kÂ
Soulfly 834kÂ
Underoath 834kÂ
Stryper 807kÂ
Iced Earth 804kÂ
Slaughter 782kÂ
Coal Chamber 710kÂ
Less Than Jake 710kÂ
Immortal 690kÂ
The Mars Volta 683kÂ
DevilDriver 661kÂ
Senses Fail 660kÂ
Alesana 659kÂ
Descendents 629kÂ
MxPx 621kÂ
Relient K 607kÂ
Down 596kÂ
Animals As Leaders 595kÂ
Never Shout Never 568kÂ
Bathory 550kÂ
The Winery Dogs 549kÂ
Eagles Of Death Metal 538kÂ
Millencolin 538kÂ
Tonight Alive 537kÂ
Kutless 535kÂ
Anberlin 534kÂ
Black Flag 526kÂ
Morbid Angel 516kÂ
Melvins 515kÂ
Against Me! 508kÂ
Modern Baseball 503kÂ
The Damned 499kÂ
Orgy 496kÂ
L.A. Guns 494kÂ
The Ataris 497kÂ
Gwar 495kÂ
The Ghost Inside 478kÂ
Miss May I 450kÂ
Savatage 450kÂ
Emmure 439kÂ
Edguy 434kÂ
Say Anything 432kÂ
Satyricon 429kÂ
Chiodos 427kÂ
Circa Survive 424kÂ
Anti-Flag 421kÂ
Buzzcocks 414kÂ
Napalm Death 413kÂ
Soilwork 407kÂ
Overkill 406kÂ
Love And Death 403kÂ
Knocked Loose 399kÂ
Carcass 397kÂ
Alexisonfire 392kÂ
Motion City Soundtrack 383kÂ
Bad Brains 380kÂ
TesseracT 367kÂ
Ace Frehley 365k
Symphony X 364kÂ
Primal Fear 356kÂ
Wintersun 356kÂ
The Starting Line 347kÂ
Trans-Siberian Orchestra 340kÂ
Transplants 340kÂ
Dream Evil 339kÂ
Gamma Ray 338kÂ
Running Wild 337kÂ
Tiger Army 334kÂ
Caliban 333kÂ
Four Year Strong 324kÂ
The Exploited 314kÂ
As It Is 311kÂ
No Use For A Name 306kÂ
Like Moths To Flames 304kÂ
The Sword 288kÂ
Heaven Shall Burn 285kÂ
The Wonder Years 277kÂ
Every Time I Die 276kÂ
Turnstile 254kÂ
Disciple 249kÂ
American Football 249kÂ
Face To Face 247kÂ
La Dispute 246kÂ
From First To Last 244kÂ
Code Orange 241kÂ
Title Fight 241kÂ
Baroness 233kÂ
Terror 231kÂ
Mad Caddies 229kÂ
Between The Buried And Me 224kÂ
The Dillinger Escape Plan 211kÂ
Refused 208kÂ
Norma Jean 208kÂ
At The Drive-In 202kÂ
Real Friends 197kÂ
Funeral For A Friend 191kÂ
Thursday 181kÂ
The Contortionist 181kÂ
Saves The Day 180kÂ
Emperor 173kÂ
The Vandals 170kÂ
Being As An Ocean 167kÂ
Something Corporate 161kÂ
Jack’s Mannequin 155kÂ
Life Of Agony 154kÂ
Celtic Frost 151kÂ
Counterparts 147kÂ
Emery 146kÂ
Shadows Fall 145kÂ
Comeback Kid 139kÂ
Circle Jerks 135kÂ
Converge 126kÂ
Stick To Your Guns 120kÂ
Sunny Day Real Estate 117kÂ
The Get-Up Kids 109kÂ
Unearth 107kÂ
Discharge 102kÂ
Armor For Sleep 99.4kÂ
Glassjaw 97.5kÂ
Throwdown 84.6kÂ
Good Riddance 79.8kÂ
Winds Of Plague 77.2kÂ
Touché Amoré 74.1kÂ
MC5 73.8kÂ
Jawbreaker 67.1kÂ
Oceano 66.5kÂ
Anvil 63.2kÂ
GBH 61.8kÂ
H2O 56.6kÂ
Ignite 52kÂ
Germs 49.1kÂ
7 Seconds 39.8kÂ
Have Heart 30.4kÂ