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Brummie Bands

The 50 most-read Brummie bands, by Wikipedia readership in October 2026. Movement compares against September 2026.

82 bands are ranked in Birmingham. The biggest move was Bentley Rhythm Ace, up 10 places.

#	Artist	Readers	30d
01	Black Sabbathheavy metal, hard rock	114,047	0
02	Duran Durannew wave, pop	92,648	0
03	Judas Priestheavy metal, nwobhm	87,528	0
04	Electric Light Orchestraprogressive rock, art rock	57,475	0
05	The Moody Bluesprogressive rock, art rock	41,283	0
06	Dexys Midnight Runnersnew wave, blue-eyed soul	38,753	+1
07	UB40reggae, dub	35,834	-1
08	Trafficprogressive rock, psychedelic rock	22,172	0
09	Fine Young Cannibalsnew wave, pop	20,784	0
10	Godfleshindustrial metal, sludge metal	14,618	+1
11	The Beatska, 2 tone	14,029	+2
12	The Spencer Davis Groupblue-eyed soul, rock	13,623	-2
13	Musical Youthreggae, reggae-pop	11,520	-1
14	The Movepsychedelic pop, psychedelic rock	9,989	0
15	GBHhardcore punk, punk	6,384	+3
16	Broadcastindietronica, avant-garde pop	6,191	-1
17	Oceans Ate Alaskametalcore, metal	5,965	+7
18	Wizzardglam rock, rock	5,425	-1
19	Magnumhard rock, aor	5,053	-3
20	Fuzzboxc86, indie pop	4,144	0
21	Anaal Nathrakhblack metal, grindcore	3,860	-2
22	Electric Light Orchestra Part IIcrossover prog	2,757	-1
23	Benedictiondeath metal	2,521	-1
24	City Boyart rock	2,137	-1
25	Bentley Rhythm Acebig beat, breakbeat	2,107	+10
26	Swell Mapsart punk, post-punk	2,046	+2
27	Doomcrust punk, d-beat	1,831	-2
28	The Idle Racepsychedelic pop, toytown pop	1,805	-2
29	Memoriamdeath metal, old school death metal	1,798	+2
30	The Twangindie rock	1,745	-3
31	Scornambient dub, electronic	1,550	-1
32	Au Pairspost-punk, dance-punk	1,529	-3
33	Fashionsynth-pop, new wave	1,244	+6
34	Sacrilegepunk, doom metal	1,185	+2
35	The Nightingalesindie rock, post-punk	1,070	+5
36	Guillemotsart pop, alternative rock	1,009	-3
37	The Rockin’ Berriesrock	994	0
38	Pramart pop, ambient pop	882	-4
39	Esotericfuneral doom metal	806	-1
40	Lock Updeathgrind, death metal	649	+2
41	Balaam and the Angelrock	638	+3
42	Denimbubblegum pop, glam rock	612	+1
43	Solarstonetrance	600	+4
44	Quartzheavy metal, metal	599	-3
45	The Killjoyspunk	536	+1
46	Meathook Seedindustrial rock	528	+2
47	Johnny Foreignerindie rock	512	-15
48	Velvett Foggpsychedelic rock	468	+3
49	The Renegadesbeat music, pop rock	432	-4
50	Finalelectronic	402	-1

Rising outside the top 50this month

63	Rumblefishindie pop	175	+10
51	Ausganggothic rock, rock	366	+5
77	Shady Bardindie rock	39	+5
64	Delukaindie rock	174	+4
66	Sandexperimental rock	153	+4

Adjacent scenes

How this is ranked. Artists are matched from the MusicBrainz database by genre and by the area they are based in. An artist appears in a genre when at least 15% of their genre votes are for it. Position is set by readership of their English Wikipedia article in October 2026; movement compares that against September 2026. Readership measures public attention, not streams or sales.