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The 50 most-read bands based in London, by Wikipedia readership in October 2026. Movement compares against September 2026.
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131 bands are ranked in London. The biggest move was Liberty X, up 73 places.
| # | Artist | Readers | 30d |
|---|---|---|---|
01 | Led Zeppelinhard rock, rock | 202,387 | +1 |
02 | Fleetwood Macrock, soft rock | 200,804 | -1 |
03 | Pink Floydprogressive rock, psychedelic rock | 174,582 | +1 |
04 | The Rolling Stonesrock, blues rock | 151,289 | +2 |
05 | Spice Girlsdance-pop, pop | 134,753 | -2 |
06 | Queenrock, glam rock | 132,005 | -1 |
07 | Sex Pistolspunk rock, punk | 107,599 | 0 |
08 | The Kinksrock, mod | 106,239 | +20 |
09 | Little Mixpop, dance-pop | 94,467 | +35 |
10 | The Whorock, hard rock | 84,866 | -2 |
11 | Sugababespop, dance-pop | 84,028 | +19 |
12 | King Crimsonprogressive rock, art rock | 79,971 | -2 |
13 | Yesprogressive rock, symphonic prog | 79,818 | -4 |
14 | Mumford & Sonsfolk pop, indie folk | 73,225 | +1 |
15 | Suedebritpop, alternative rock | 66,956 | +33 |
16 | The Policenew wave, rock | 63,926 | -5 |
17 | Coldplayalternative rock, pop | 63,610 | -5 |
18 | Bluralternative rock, britpop | 62,181 | -2 |
19 | Supertrampprogressive rock, rock | 56,493 | +2 |
20 | The Yardbirdsblues rock, psychedelic rock | 55,960 | -3 |
21 | Junglefunktronica, funk | 53,020 | -7 |
22 | Motörheadheavy metal, hard rock | 52,888 | +1 |
23 | The Clashpunk rock, dance-punk | 51,292 | -5 |
24 | Siouxsie and the Bansheesnew wave, post-punk | 49,848 | -5 |
25 | Creamblues rock, rock | 48,437 | 0 |
26 | Bananaramapop, dance-pop | 47,701 | +6 |
27 | Sleep Tokenprogressive metal, alternative metal | 45,983 | -3 |
28 | Americasoft rock, rock | 45,824 | -8 |
29 | Sadesmooth jazz, contemporary r&b | 44,313 | -2 |
30 | Klark Kentnew wave | 41,622 | -4 |
31 | Florence + the Machineindie rock, indie pop | 40,324 | -9 |
32 | Placeboalternative rock, indie rock | 39,425 | +7 |
33 | S Clubpop, ballad | 38,953 | +25 |
34 | Roxy Musicart rock, glam rock | 38,249 | -3 |
35 | Uriah Heephard rock, progressive rock | 36,301 | +6 |
36 | Status Quorock, boogie rock | 35,236 | +14 |
37 | Erasuresynth-pop, dance-pop | 35,154 | +6 |
38 | Bushalternative rock, grunge | 34,233 | +8 |
39 | DragonForcepower metal, heavy metal | 34,220 | -26 |
40 | The Culthard rock, post-punk | 34,187 | -6 |
41 | Wolf Alicealternative rock, indie rock | 32,364 | +10 |
42 | Eurythmicsnew wave, synth-pop | 32,188 | -9 |
43 | Liberty Xpop | 30,528 | +73 |
44 | The Damnedpunk rock, gothic rock | 30,034 | +3 |
45 | Asiaprogressive rock, rock | 29,651 | -9 |
46 | Squeezenew wave, rock | 29,485 | -17 |
47 | Bad Companyblues rock, hard rock | 29,463 | -9 |
48 | McFlybritpop, pop | 26,072 | +9 |
49 | Talk Talknew wave, post-rock | 26,024 | -9 |
50 | Facesblues rock, rock | 25,523 | -8 |
71 | Mel & Kimpop | 16,517 | +48 |
83 | Sigue Sigue Sputniknew wave, electronica | 13,409 | +43 |
89 | Brotherhood of Manpop, disco | 12,924 | +33 |
101 | Girl Thingeuropop, pop | 9,817 | +29 |
60 | Pete & Basuk drill | 21,395 | +26 |
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.