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Bands from London

The 50 most-read bands based in London, by Wikipedia readership in August 2026. Movement compares against July 2026.

132 bands are ranked in London. The biggest move was Elastica, up 56 places.

#	Artist	Readers	30d
01	Fleetwood Macrock, soft rock	268,468	+1
02	Led Zeppelinhard rock, rock	196,677	+2
03	Pink Floydprogressive rock, psychedelic rock	177,844	+2
04	The Rolling Stonesrock, blues rock	172,891	-3
05	Queenrock, glam rock	146,949	+1
06	Spice Girlsdance-pop, pop	145,289	-3
07	Mumford & Sonsfolk pop, indie folk	94,249	0
08	The Whorock, hard rock	91,838	+2
09	Yesprogressive rock, symphonic prog	81,634	-1
10	Sex Pistolspunk rock, punk	79,134	-1
11	King Crimsonprogressive rock, art rock	73,776	+1
12	Coldplayalternative rock, pop	71,455	-1
13	The Policenew wave, rock	70,835	0
14	Florence + the Machineindie rock, indie pop	68,175	+7
15	The Yardbirdsblues rock, psychedelic rock	61,224	+1
16	Bluralternative rock, britpop	60,238	-2
17	Siouxsie and the Bansheesnew wave, post-punk	59,825	+1
18	FLOpop, r&b	58,903	+13
19	The Clashpunk rock, dance-punk	58,768	-2
20	Klark Kentnew wave	55,575	+7
21	Bananaramapop, dance-pop	54,537	+2
22	Sadesmooth jazz, contemporary r&b	52,694	-2
23	Junglefunktronica, funk	52,008	+31
24	Creamblues rock, rock	52,007	+1
25	Supertrampprogressive rock, rock	51,324	-3
26	The Kinksrock, mod	50,569	-7
27	Motörheadheavy metal, hard rock	50,256	-1
28	Americasoft rock, rock	49,710	-13
29	Sleep Tokenprogressive metal, alternative metal	48,910	-5
30	Squeezenew wave, rock	40,983	+14
31	Roxy Musicart rock, glam rock	40,104	+4
32	Sugababespop, dance-pop	39,284	+15
33	Asiaprogressive rock, rock	36,964	-4
34	Eurythmicsnew wave, synth-pop	36,343	+8
35	The Culthard rock, post-punk	36,209	-5
36	Little Mixpop, dance-pop	35,458	+1
37	Uriah Heephard rock, progressive rock	35,139	+2
38	Suedebritpop, alternative rock	34,423	+8
39	Wolf Alicealternative rock, indie rock	33,329	-11
40	Facesblues rock, rock	33,157	0
41	Talk Talknew wave, post-rock	33,119	-7
42	Elasticabritpop, alternative rock	32,895	+56
43	Culture Clubnew wave, pop	32,734	+2
44	All Saintspop, rock	32,010	+6
45	Bad Companyblues rock, hard rock	30,850	-4
46	Death in Juneneofolk, martial industrial	29,879	+38
47	The Damnedpunk rock, gothic rock	29,446	+9
48	Faithlesselectronic, trip hop	29,177	+11
49	Chase & Statusdrum and bass, electronic	28,767	+36
50	The Poguesceltic punk, celtic rock	27,288	+5

Rising outside the top 50this month

96	Blancmangeelectropop, synth-pop	12,148	+35
59	McFlybritpop, pop	24,747	+33
86	Pete & Basuk drill	13,600	+21
94	Wirepost-punk, art punk	12,525	+21
107	Pentanglefolk rock, folk	10,092	+19

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