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The 50 most-read artists based in London, by Wikipedia readership in August 2026. Movement compares against July 2026.
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200 artists are ranked in London. The biggest move was Jungle, up 44 places.
| # | Artist | Readers | 30d |
|---|---|---|---|
01 | Dua Lipadance-pop, pop | 380,941 | 0 |
02 | Fleetwood Macrock, soft rock | 268,468 | +1 |
03 | Led Zeppelinhard rock, rock | 196,677 | +2 |
04 | Pink Floydprogressive rock, psychedelic rock | 177,844 | +3 |
05 | The Rolling Stonesrock, blues rock | 172,891 | -3 |
06 | Queenrock, glam rock | 146,949 | +2 |
07 | Spice Girlsdance-pop, pop | 145,289 | -3 |
08 | Sienna Spiropop soul, classical crossover | 133,245 | -2 |
09 | Kelly Osbournenew wave, pop | 128,675 | +21 |
10 | Cynthia Erivosoul | 110,076 | -1 |
11 | Zev Love Xhip hop | 107,959 | +3 |
12 | Sam Smithpop, soul | 98,018 | +7 |
13 | Mumford & Sonsfolk pop, indie folk | 94,249 | -3 |
14 | The Whorock, hard rock | 91,838 | +1 |
15 | Yesprogressive rock, symphonic prog | 81,634 | -3 |
16 | Sex Pistolspunk rock, punk | 79,134 | -3 |
17 | Jacob Collierjazz, contemporary r&b | 75,529 | -6 |
18 | King Crimsonprogressive rock, art rock | 73,776 | 0 |
19 | Coldplayalternative rock, pop | 71,455 | -3 |
20 | The Policenew wave, rock | 70,835 | 0 |
21 | Florence + the Machineindie rock, indie pop | 68,175 | +8 |
22 | Charlotte Gainsbourgindie pop, rock | 67,648 | -5 |
23 | The Yardbirdsblues rock, psychedelic rock | 61,224 | +1 |
24 | Bluralternative rock, britpop | 60,238 | -2 |
25 | Siouxsie and the Bansheesnew wave, post-punk | 59,825 | +1 |
26 | Didopop, trip hop | 59,547 | -5 |
27 | FLOpop, r&b | 58,903 | +16 |
28 | The Clashpunk rock, dance-punk | 58,768 | -3 |
29 | Klark Kentnew wave | 55,575 | +8 |
30 | Bananaramapop, dance-pop | 54,537 | +3 |
31 | Sadesmooth jazz, contemporary r&b | 52,694 | -3 |
32 | Junglefunktronica, funk | 52,008 | +44 |
33 | Creamblues rock, rock | 52,007 | +2 |
34 | Supertrampprogressive rock, rock | 51,324 | -3 |
35 | Jessie Jpop, r&b | 50,895 | +4 |
36 | The Kinksrock, mod | 50,569 | -9 |
37 | Motörheadheavy metal, hard rock | 50,256 | -1 |
38 | Siouxsie Siouxgothic rock, post-punk | 49,844 | -6 |
39 | Lizzy Pattinsonalternative rock, pop | 49,732 | +1 |
40 | Americasoft rock, rock | 49,710 | -17 |
41 | Sleep Tokenprogressive metal, alternative metal | 48,910 | -7 |
42 | Mandy Smithdance-pop, pop | 44,774 | +44 |
43 | Squeezenew wave, rock | 40,983 | +20 |
44 | Roxy Musicart rock, glam rock | 40,104 | +6 |
45 | Sugababespop, dance-pop | 39,284 | +23 |
46 | Geoffrey Chaucerpoetry | 38,727 | 0 |
47 | Peter Lawfordjazz | 37,373 | +1 |
48 | Zak Starkeyrock | 37,271 | +6 |
49 | Asiaprogressive rock, rock | 36,964 | -8 |
50 | Eurythmicsnew wave, synth-pop | 36,343 | +11 |
58 | Elasticabritpop, alternative rock | 32,895 | +84 |
118 | Ella Eyrealternative r&b, neo soul | 14,432 | +80 |
69 | Cleo Solr&b, soul | 28,917 | +63 |
64 | Death in Juneneofolk, martial industrial | 29,879 | +57 |
139 | Blancmangeelectropop, synth-pop | 12,148 | +57 |
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.