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Bands from Columbus

The 33 most-read bands based in Columbus, by Wikipedia readership in August 2026. Movement compares against July 2026.

33 bands are ranked in Columbus. The biggest move was Early Man, up 4 places.

#	Artist	Readers	30d
01	twenty one pilotsalternative rock, indie pop	73,755	0
02	Rascal Flattscountry, contemporary country	20,929	0
03	Beartoothmetalcore, metal	17,717	0
04	Of Mice & Menalternative metal, post-hardcore	12,263	0
05	STARSETelectronic rock, alternative rock	9,786	0
06	Like Moths to Flamesmetalcore, post-hardcore	3,705	0
07	Defiance, Ohiofolk punk	1,307	0
08	The Godzhard rock	979	0
09	My Ticket Homenu metal, metalcore	965	+1
10	New Bomb Turksindie rock, punk rock	867	+1
11	Saving Janealternative rock, rock	786	+2
12	McGuffey Lanecountry	752	-3
13	Times New Vikinglo-fi, noise pop	562	-1
14	Anointedcontemporary christian	522	+1
15	Saintsenecaindie folk, folk rock	509	-1
16	Psychedelic Horseshitshitgaze, lo-fi	440	+1
17	Watershedpower pop	386	+1
18	City Lightseasycore, pop punk	359	-2
19	The Wakegothic rock	294	0
20	Early Manmetal	270	+4
21	Symphony in Perilmetalcore	216	-1
22	Soul Positionleftfield, underground hip hop	215	+1
23	Jacobs Dreamprogressive metal	199	-1
24	Flesh Fieldelectronic, industrial	188	-3
25	Two Cow Garagealternative country	159	+4
26	The Sunindie rock	143	+2
27	Gauntpunk rock	138	-1
28	The Black Swansblues rock	129	+2
29	Earwigalternative rock	102	-2
30	Howlin’ Maggiealternative rock	101	-5
31	Great Plainsfolk rock	86	0
32	The Whilesindie rock	44	0
33	Screaming Urgepunk rock	23	0

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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 August 2026; movement compares that against July 2026. Readership measures public attention, not streams or sales.