The true greats have maintained popularity throughout the ages, and here we’re demonstrating it with the rock bands with the most streams in the modern era.
The greatest rock era’s were certainly in the previous century, but rock never dies and the music lives on – you’ll be surprised who’s number one!
The most streamed rock artist is Queen with 36.18B streams, which includes 36.11B as lead artist and 70.5M from features, followed by Imagine Dragons (24.49B) and Linkin Park (20.75B).
A countdown of the most famous rock music artists in order of streams as lead artist is as follows:
- 50Van Halen
- Total Streams as a lead: 6.11B
- Most streamed song of all time: Jump with 961.0M streams
- 49Iron Maiden
- Total Streams as a lead: 6.16B
- Most streamed song of all time: The Trooper with 486.1M streams
- 48Mumford & Sons
- Total Streams as a lead: 6.22B
- Streams as a featured artist: 95.0M
- Most streamed song of all time: Little Lion Man with 788.7M streams
- 47Kings of Leon
- Total Streams as a lead: 6.23B
- Most streamed song of all time: Sex on Fire with 1.66B streams
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- 46Train
- Total Streams as a lead: 6.24B
- Streams as a featured artist: 230K
- Most streamed song of all time: Hey, Soul Sister with 1.73B streams
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- 45Phil Collins
- Total Streams as a lead: 6.38B
- Most streamed song of all time: In the Air Tonight with 783.1M streams
- 44Aerosmith
- Total Streams as a lead: 6.62B
- Most streamed song of all time: Dream On with 1.27B streams
- 43Rammstein
- Total Streams as a lead: 6.67B
- Most streamed song of all time: Du hast with 648.4M streams
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- 42Glass Animals
- Total Streams as a lead: 6.79B
- Streams as a featured artist: 34.4M
- Most streamed song of all time: Heat Waves with 3.25B streams
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- 41The Cure
- Total Streams as a lead: 6.87B
- Streams as a featured artist: 2.3M
- Most streamed song of all time: Boys Don't Cry with 819.8M streams
- 40Nickelback
- Total Streams as a lead: 6.94B
- Most streamed song of all time: How You Remind Me with 1.26B streams
- 39Muse
- Total Streams as a lead: 7.03B
- Most streamed song of all time: Supermassive Black Hole with 677.7M streams
- 38Slipknot
- Total Streams as a lead: 7.06B
- Most streamed song of all time: Duality with 862.3M streams
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- 37Blink-182
- Total Streams as a lead: 7.08B
- Most streamed song of all time: All The Small Things with 1.26B streams
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- 36The Lumineers
- Total Streams as a lead: 7.47B
- Streams as a featured artist: 187.9M
- Most streamed song of all time: Ho Hey with 1.42B streams
- 35Billy Joel
- Total Streams as a lead: 7.50B
- Streams as a featured artist: 466K
- Most streamed song of all time: Uptown Girl with 1.08B streams
- 34My Chemical Romance
- Total Streams as a lead: 7.51B
- Most streamed song of all time: Teenagers with 1.06B streams
- 33Paramore
- Total Streams as a lead: 7.69B
- Most streamed song of all time: Misery Business with 903.1M streams
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- 32The 1975
- Total Streams as a lead: 7.71B
- Most streamed song of all time: Somebody Else with 851.1M streams
- 31Oasis
- Total Streams as a lead: 7.74B
- Most streamed song of all time: Wonderwall with 2.21B streams
- 30Bon Jovi
- Total Streams as a lead: 8.18B
- Streams as a featured artist: 1.7M
- Most streamed song of all time: Livin' On A Prayer with 1.80B streams
- 29Foo Fighters
- Total Streams as a lead: 8.26B
- Most streamed song of all time: Everlong with 1.33B streams
- 28The Police
- Total Streams as a lead: 8.31B
- Most streamed song of all time: Every Breath You Take with 2.38B streams
- 27Tame Impala
- Total Streams as a lead: 8.33B
- Streams as a featured artist: 1.7M
- Most streamed song of all time: The Less I Know The Better with 1.84B streams
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- 26The Killers
- Total Streams as a lead: 8.34B
- Streams as a featured artist: 6.9M
- Most streamed song of all time: Mr. Brightside with 2.44B streams
- 25Dire Straits
- Total Streams as a lead: 8.35B
- Most streamed song of all time: Sultans of Swing with 1.34B streams
- 24The Smiths
- Total Streams as a lead: 8.81B
- Most streamed song of all time: There Is a Light That Never Goes Out with 733.9M streams
- 23Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Total Streams as a lead: 9.40B
- Most streamed song of all time: Have You Ever Seen The Rain with 1.86B streams
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- 22System of a Down
- Total Streams as a lead: 9.77B
- Most streamed song of all time: Chop Suey! with 1.55B streams
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- 21Led Zeppelin
- Total Streams as a lead: 10.08B
- Most streamed song of all time: Stairway to Heaven with 1.06B streams
- 20Fleetwood Mac
- Total Streams as a lead: 10.36B
- Most streamed song of all time: Dreams with 1.91B streams
- 19Radiohead
- Total Streams as a lead: 10.40B
- Most streamed song of all time: Creep with 1.95B streams
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- 18Fall Out Boy
- Total Streams as a lead: 10.48B
- Most streamed song of all time: Centuries with 1.29B streams
- 17Pink Floyd
- Total Streams as a lead: 10.96B
- Most streamed song of all time: Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 with 967.2M streams
- 16Green Day
- Total Streams as a lead: 11.24B
- Streams as a featured artist: 35.6M
- Most streamed song of all time: Basket Case with 1.22B streams
- 15U2
- Total Streams as a lead: 11.49B
- Most streamed song of all time: With Or Without You with 1.15B streams
- 14Hozier
- Total Streams as a lead: 11.56B
- Streams as a featured artist: 227.9M
- Most streamed song of all time: Take Me to Church with 2.70B streams
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- 13Guns N' Roses
- Total Streams as a lead: 12.68B
- Most streamed song of all time: Sweet Child O' Mine with 2.10B streams
- 12AC/DC
- Total Streams as a lead: 12.82B
- Most streamed song of all time: Highway to Hell with 1.82B streams
- 11Elton John
- Total Streams as a lead: 12.92B
- Streams as a featured artist: 454.6M
- Most streamed song of all time: Cold Heart with 2.23B streams
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- 10Metallica
- Total Streams as a lead: 13.74B
- Streams as a featured artist: 1.6M
- Most streamed song of all time: Enter Sandman with 1.57B streams
- 9The Beatles
- Total Streams as a lead: 14.40B
- Most streamed song of all time: Here Comes The Sun with 1.50B streams
- 8Twenty One Pilots
- Total Streams as a lead: 16.01B
- Most streamed song of all time: Stressed Out with 2.51B streams
- 7The Rolling Stones
- Total Streams as a lead: 16.27B
- Most streamed song of all time: Paint It, Black with 1.37B streams
- 6Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Total Streams as a lead: 16.40B
- Most streamed song of all time: Californication with 1.57B streams
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- 5Nirvana
- Total Streams as a lead: 18.43B
- Most streamed song of all time: Smells Like Teen Spirit with 2.24B streams
- 4Arctic Monkeys
- Total Streams as a lead: 20.06B
- Most streamed song of all time: I Wanna Be Yours with 2.73B streams
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- 3Linkin Park
- Total Streams as a lead: 20.75B
- Most streamed song of all time: In the End with 2.39B streams
- 2Imagine Dragons
- Total Streams as a lead: 24.48B
- Streams as a featured artist: 14.5M
- Most streamed song of all time: Believer with 3.15B streams
- 1Queen
- Total Streams as a lead: 36.11B
- Streams as a featured artist: 70.5M
- Most streamed song of all time: Bohemian Rhapsody with 2.67B streams
