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The Greatest Rock Bands of All Time

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 36.55B streams, which includes 36.48B as lead artist and 72.2M from features, followed by Imagine Dragons (24.49B) and Linkin Park (21.59B).

A countdown of the most famous rock music artists in order of streams as lead artist is as follows:

50
R.E.M.

Total Streams as a lead: 4.69B
Most streamed song of all time: Losing My Religion with 1.59B streams

49
Twenty One Pilots

Total Streams as a lead: 4.81B
Most streamed song of all time: Stressed Out with 2.58B streams

48
Johnny Cash

Total Streams as a lead: 4.84B
Streams as a featured artist: 726.0M
Most streamed song of all time: Hurt with 622.8M streams

47
Cage The Elephant

Total Streams as a lead: 4.93B
Most streamed song of all time: Cigarette Daydreams with 1.13B streams

46
Florida Georgia Line

Total Streams as a lead: 5.04B
Streams as a featured artist: 604.0M
Most streamed song of all time: Cruise with 466.3M streams

45
Papa Roach

Total Streams as a lead: 5.21B
Most streamed song of all time: Last Resort with 1.29B streams

44
Luke Bryan

Total Streams as a lead: 5.30B
Streams as a featured artist: 959.9M
Most streamed song of all time: Play It Again with 568.6M streams

43
David Bowie

Total Streams as a lead: 5.32B
Streams as a featured artist: 3.45B
Most streamed song of all time: Under Pressure with 1.83B streams

42
Three Days Grace

Total Streams as a lead: 5.47B
Most streamed song of all time: I Hate Everything About You with 916.2M streams

41
Eagles

Total Streams as a lead: 5.74B
Most streamed song of all time: Hotel California with 1.82B streams

40
Disturbed

Total Streams as a lead: 5.88B
Most streamed song of all time: The Sound of Silence with 869.4M streams

39
Weezer

Total Streams as a lead: 5.94B
Streams as a featured artist: 4.9M
Most streamed song of all time: Island in the Sun with 892.8M streams

38
The Strokes

Total Streams as a lead: 5.95B
Most streamed song of all time: Last Nite with 705.0M streams

37
Bring Me the Horizon

Total Streams as a lead: 5.95B
Most streamed song of all time: Can You Feel My Heart with 715.5M streams

36
Pearl Jam

Total Streams as a lead: 6.08B
Most streamed song of all time: Even Flow with 686.9M streams

35
Van Halen

Total Streams as a lead: 6.20B
Most streamed song of all time: Jump with 985.7M streams

34
Iron Maiden

Total Streams as a lead: 6.26B
Most streamed song of all time: The Trooper with 501.0M streams

33
Mumford & Sons

Total Streams as a lead: 6.32B
Streams as a featured artist: 95.0M
Most streamed song of all time: Little Lion Man with 809.8M streams

32
Kings of Leon

Total Streams as a lead: 6.38B
Most streamed song of all time: Sex on Fire with 1.72B streams

31
Phil Collins

Total Streams as a lead: 6.54B
Most streamed song of all time: In the Air Tonight with 810.8M streams

30
Journey

Total Streams as a lead: 6.60B
Most streamed song of all time: Don't Stop Believin' with 2.32B streams

29
Aerosmith

Total Streams as a lead: 6.79B
Most streamed song of all time: Dream On with 1.31B streams

28
Rammstein

Total Streams as a lead: 6.86B
Most streamed song of all time: Du hast with 672.5M streams

27
Muse

Total Streams as a lead: 7.16B
Most streamed song of all time: Supermassive Black Hole with 710.0M streams

26
Nickelback

Total Streams as a lead: 7.17B
Most streamed song of all time: How You Remind Me with 1.32B streams

25
Blink-182

Total Streams as a lead: 7.23B
Most streamed song of all time: All The Small Things with 1.29B streams

24
Billy Joel

Total Streams as a lead: 7.72B
Streams as a featured artist: 466K
Most streamed song of all time: Uptown Girl with 1.12B streams

23
Bon Jovi

Total Streams as a lead: 8.41B
Streams as a featured artist: 1.7M
Most streamed song of all time: Livin' On A Prayer with 1.86B streams

22
Foo Fighters

Total Streams as a lead: 8.42B
Most streamed song of all time: Everlong with 1.38B streams

21
Dire Straits

Total Streams as a lead: 8.54B
Most streamed song of all time: Sultans of Swing with 1.39B streams

20
The Killers

Total Streams as a lead: 8.55B
Streams as a featured artist: 6.9M
Most streamed song of all time: Mr. Brightside with 2.53B streams

19
Creedence Clearwater Revival

Total Streams as a lead: 9.65B
Most streamed song of all time: Have You Ever Seen The Rain with 1.93B streams

18
System of a Down

Total Streams as a lead: 10.09B
Most streamed song of all time: Chop Suey! with 1.60B streams

17
Led Zeppelin

Total Streams as a lead: 10.27B
Most streamed song of all time: Stairway to Heaven with 1.09B streams

16
Hozier

Total Streams as a lead: 10.59B
Streams as a featured artist: 227.9M
Most streamed song of all time: Take Me to Church with 2.70B streams

15
Fleetwood Mac

Total Streams as a lead: 10.70B
Most streamed song of all time: Dreams with 1.99B streams

14
Radiohead

Total Streams as a lead: 10.81B
Most streamed song of all time: Creep with 2.04B streams

13
Pink Floyd

Total Streams as a lead: 11.18B
Most streamed song of all time: Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 with 1.01B streams

12
U2

Total Streams as a lead: 12.45B
Most streamed song of all time: With Or Without You with 1.18B streams

11
Guns N' Roses

Total Streams as a lead: 12.98B
Most streamed song of all time: Sweet Child O' Mine with 2.17B streams

10
AC/DC

Total Streams as a lead: 13.15B
Most streamed song of all time: Highway to Hell with 1.88B streams

9
Metallica

Total Streams as a lead: 14.07B
Streams as a featured artist: 1.6M
Most streamed song of all time: Enter Sandman with 1.63B streams

8
The Beatles

Total Streams as a lead: 14.10B
Most streamed song of all time: Here Comes The Sun with 1.54B streams

7
The Rolling Stones

Total Streams as a lead: 16.47B
Most streamed song of all time: Paint It, Black with 1.41B streams

6
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Total Streams as a lead: 16.79B
Most streamed song of all time: Californication with 1.61B streams

5
Nirvana

Total Streams as a lead: 18.79B
Most streamed song of all time: Smells Like Teen Spirit with 2.32B streams

4
Arctic Monkeys

Total Streams as a lead: 20.80B
Most streamed song of all time: I Wanna Be Yours with 2.88B streams

3
Linkin Park

Total Streams as a lead: 21.59B
Most streamed song of all time: In the End with 2.47B streams

2
Imagine 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

1
Queen

Total Streams as a lead: 36.48B
Streams as a featured artist: 72.2M
Most streamed song of all time: Bohemian Rhapsody with 2.73B streams
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