Most watched rock bands/artists on Youtube

[MindCrime]

Most viewed Rock bands / artists on Youtube as of September 2024

(including metal & alternative & new wave & pop/rock)

 

Artist	Total views (millions)
1. Coldplay	17,192.3
2. Imagine Dragons	15,782.5
3. Linkin Park	13,272.7
4. twenty one pilots	11,299.3
5. Queen	10,202.2
6. Guns N' Roses	8,095.0
7. AC/DC	7,741.7
8. OneRepublic	7,431.8
9. Boyce Avenue	6,806.5
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers	6,674.1
11. Bon Jovi	6,599.7
12. Metallica	6,516.2
13. Nirvana	5,352.6
14. Rammstein	5,176.1
15. Gorillaz	4,951.2
16. Bryan Adams	4,625.4
17. System of a Down	4,391.9
18. Slipknot	4,279.1
19. Nickelback	4,051.5
20. Panic! at the Disco	4,016.0
21. Arctic Monkeys	3,907.5
22. Evanescence	3,851.0
23. Green Day	3,725.9
24. The Beatles	3,556.2
25. Paramore	3,284.6
26. Aerosmith	3,248.7
27. The Cranberries	3,248.6
28. Five Finger Death Punch	3,208.7
29. Oasis	3,025.9
30. MAGIC!	2,980.4
31. Depeche Mode	2,944.7
32. Fall Out Boy	2,785.2
33. Foo Fighters	2,742.9
34. Avenged Sevenfold	2,686.7
35. Disturbed	2,621.3
36. Muse	2,593.3
37. U2	2,495.1
38. Radiohead	2,353.9
39. Skillet	2,323.7
40. The Script	2,314.2
41. blink-182	2,307.5
42. The Killers	2,183.3
43. Roxette	2,138.4
44. R.E.M.	2,131.9
45. Bruce Springsteen	2,101.2
46. Bring Me The Horizon	2,054.9
47. Three Days Grace	2,045.3
48. Scorpions	2,019.8
49. My Chemical Romance	2,017.3
50. Korn	1,999.2
51. ONE OK ROCK	1,971.9
52. The Police	1,951.5
53. 3 Doors Down	1,940.7
54. Foster The People	1,899.1
55. Audioslave	1,886.0
56. 4 Non Blondes	1,867.7
57. Toto	1,846.7
58. Santana	1,845.9
59. Marilyn Manson	1,795.2
60. Kid Rock	1,747.4
61. Fun.	1,722.0
62. No Doubt	1,712.5
63. Europe	1,668.3
64. Journey	1,662.7
65. Sting	1,658.2
66. Dire Straits	1,604.0
67. Billy Joel	1,579.7
68. Phil Collins	1,577.4
69. Kings Of Leon	1,552.5
70. Keane	1,530.7
71. Owl City	1,522.2
72. Limp Bizkit	1,515.8
73. Lenny Kravitz	1,512.0
74. The Lumineers	1,464.4
75. Shinedown	1,405.6
76. Thirty Seconds to Mars	1,399.6
77. Nightwish	1,387.4
78. Survivor	1,384.3
79. Glass Animals	1,379.4
80. Florence + The Machine	1,378.7
81. Train	1,378.0
82. Simple Plan	1,370.6
83. The Verve	1,341.3
84. The Rolling Stones	1,328.0
85. The Offspring	1,319.2
86. Eurythmics	1,291.6
87. Led Zeppelin	1,277.5
88. Creedence Clearwater Revival	1,255.4
89. Hoobastank	1,255.2
90. Weird Al Yankovic	1,202.3
91. The Strokes	1,200.0
92. Tame Impala	1,179.8
93. Creed	1,164.6
94. Papa Roach	1,159.8
95. John Mayer	1,132.1
96. Mumford & Sons	1,126.1
97. John Lennon	1,049.0
98. Jamiroquai	1,035.9
99. Seether	1,033.8
100. Of Monsters and Men	1,029.6
101. Pet Shop Boys	1,002.5
102. Daughtry	996.5
103. The Cure	987.9
104. The White Stripes	979.7
105. Eric Clapton	952.5
106. Heart	947.4
107. Iron Maiden	934.7
108. Vance Joy	933.4
109. Sum 41	929.6
110. Goo Goo Dolls	917.1
111. Breaking Benjamin	895.2
112. Weezer	893.4
113. Pearl Jam	873.9
114. Bullet For My Valentine	855.4
115. Within Temptation	840.6
116. Extreme	811.3
117. UB40	799.8
118. Staind	797.9
119. Bloodhound Gang	785.4
120. Pink Floyd	783.5
121. Fleetwood Mac	780.3
122. Snow Patrol	775.3
123. The Fray	772.2
124. BABYMETAL	768.9
125. Rise Against	743.4
126. Alanis Morissette	732.0
127. Smash Mouth	726.6
128. Richard Marx	725.4
129. MGMT	721.3
130. The Smashing Pumpkins	708.5
131. Starship	707.6
132. The Black Keys	701.2
133. Johnny Cash	694.5
134. Matchbox Twenty	692.9
135. Bob Dylan	676.8
136. Empire Of The Sun	676.1
137. Judas Priest	660.6
138. The Calling	658.1
139. Simon & Garfunkel	630.1
140. Rage Against The Machine	619.2
141. Meat Loaf	615.6
142. Beastie Boys	609.7
143. The All-American Rejects	605.7
144. Soundgarden	601.7
145. WALK THE MOON	599.4
146. Deep Purple	596.8
147. Queens of the Stone Age	591.1
148. Eagles	589.3
149. Jimi Hendrix	588.7
150. Simple Minds	559.3
151. Blackstreet	555.8
152. Rob Zombie	532.2
153. The xx	529.6
154. Cage the Elephant	529.4
155. Theory of a Deadman	520.6
156. OK Go	517.0
157. Whitesnake	505.2
158. Tom Petty	501.3
159. Tokio Hotel	499.6
160. The Smiths	484.5
161. Counting Crows	481.2
162. Lifehouse	422.7
163. Jack Johnson	418.0
164. Beck	416.5
165. Alice Cooper	406.5
166. Alien Ant Farm	377.5
167. Echosmith	335.2
168. Midnight Oil	317.8
169. The Veronicas	313.0
170. Wheatus	312.6
171. Paul McCartney	310.1
172. Daniel Powter	307.3
173. Arcade Fire	296.0
174. Plain White T's	292.5
175. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	287.2
176. Yeah Yeah Yeahs	274.5
177. David Bowie	267.1
178. Soul Asylum	250.2
179. HAIM	235.5

[MindCrime]

Most watched rock video of each year since 1970

 

70	Beatles	Let It Be
71	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
72	Eric Clapton	Layla
73	Billy Joel	Piano Man
74	Queen	Killer Queen
75	Queen	Bohemian Rhapsody
76	Queen	Somebody to Love
77	Queen	We Will Rock You
78	Talking Heads	Psycho Killer
79	Queen	Don’t Stop Me Now
80	AC/DC	Back In Black
81	Journey	Don’t Stop Believin’ (live)
82	Toto	Africa
83	Police	Every Breath You Take
84	Queen	I Want To Break Free
85	Tears For Fears	Everybody Wants to Rule the World
86	Outfield	Your Love
87	Bon Jovi	Livin’ On a Prayer
88	Guns n Roses	Sweet Child O Mine
89	Guns n Roses	Patience
90	AC/DC	Thunderstruck
91	Nirvana	Smells Like Teen Spirit
92	Guns n Roses	November Rain
93	4 Non Blondes	What’s Up?
94	Cranberries	Zombie
95	Oasis	Wonderwall
96	No Doubt	Don’t Speak
97	The Verve	Bittersweet Symphony
98	Rammstein	Du Hast
99	Red Hot Chili Peppers *	Scar Tissue
00	Linkin Park	In the End
01	System of a Down	Chop Suey!
02	System of a Down	Toxicity
03	Linkin Park	Numb
04	Hoobastank	The Reason
05	Gorillaz	Feel Good Inc.
06	Panic! at the Disco	I Write Sins, Not Tragedies
07	Linkin Park	What I’ve Done
08	Jason Mraz	I’m Yours
09	Linkin Park	New Divide
10	Maroon 5	Misery
11	Fun.	We Are Young
12	Passenger	Let Her Go
13	OneRepublic	Counting Stars
14	Maroon 5	Animals
15	Twenty one pilots	Stressed Out
16	Twenty one pilots	Heathens
17	Imagine Dragons	Believer
18	Lady Gaga; Bradley Cooper	Shallow
19	Post Malone	Circles
20	Glass Animals	Heat Waves
21	Imagine Dragons	Enemy
22	Imagine Dragons	Bones
23	David Kushner	Daylight
24	Benson Boone	Beautiful Things

 

 

I'm working on getting data for 1960s, it's been unreliable sources so far