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The 50 most-read Melburnian bands, by Wikipedia readership in October 2026. Movement compares against September 2026.
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104 bands are ranked in Melbourne. The biggest move was Dream On Dreamer, up 24 places.
| # | Artist | Readers | 30d |
|---|---|---|---|
01 | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizardpsychedelic rock, garage rock | 58,502 | 0 |
02 | Air Supplysoft rock, ballad | 42,526 | +1 |
03 | The Avalanchesplunderphonics, hip hop | 41,597 | +6 |
04 | Men at Workrock, new wave | 30,471 | -2 |
05 | Crowded Housealternative rock, pop rock | 25,030 | -1 |
06 | Little River Bandrock | 23,576 | -1 |
07 | The Seekersfolk pop, folk | 18,339 | +1 |
08 | Amyl and the Snifferspunk rock, garage rock | 18,198 | -2 |
09 | Nick Cave & the Bad Seedsalternative rock, post-punk | 17,941 | -2 |
10 | The Temper Trapindie rock, indie pop | 13,289 | +1 |
11 | Dead Can Dancedark wave, ethereal wave | 12,455 | +1 |
12 | TISMalternative rock | 11,193 | +4 |
13 | Jetgarage rock, rock | 10,985 | -3 |
14 | The Birthday Partypost-punk, gothic rock | 7,772 | 0 |
15 | The Teskey Brothersblues rock, soul | 6,978 | +8 |
16 | Thornhillprogressive metalcore, alternative metal | 5,284 | +8 |
17 | Rogue Tradersdance-pop, electronic rock | 5,169 | 0 |
18 | Ne Obliviscarisprogressive metal, melodic death metal | 4,888 | +10 |
19 | Tropical Fuck Stormart punk, psychedelic rock | 4,750 | +2 |
20 | Glass Beamsneo-psychedelia, psychedelic | 4,732 | -1 |
21 | The Cat Empirejazz, ska | 4,249 | -6 |
22 | Pseudo Echonew wave | 4,124 | -4 |
23 | Boom Crash Operapop rock | 4,056 | +17 |
24 | The Living Endpunk, rock | 3,643 | +1 |
25 | Hiatus Kaiyoteneo soul, experimental | 3,409 | -3 |
26 | Skyhooksglam rock | 3,243 | 0 |
27 | Dirty Threeinstrumental, post-rock | 3,036 | +5 |
28 | Windwakermetalcore | 2,971 | +3 |
29 | Hunters & Collectorsrock | 2,874 | -2 |
30 | Foetusindustrial rock, experimental rock | 2,691 | -1 |
31 | Daddy Coolrock | 2,380 | +2 |
32 | NERVOprogressive house, edm | 2,294 | -19 |
33 | 1927dark wave, alternative rock | 2,242 | +2 |
34 | Cut Copyelectropop, synth-pop | 2,135 | -4 |
35 | Frente!folk pop, indie folk | 1,801 | +3 |
36 | Twelve Foot Ninjaalternative metal, alternative rock | 1,739 | +7 |
37 | Modelsrock | 1,704 | +4 |
38 | The Black Sorrowsblues, americana | 1,681 | +8 |
39 | Be’lakormelodic death metal, progressive metal | 1,657 | +3 |
40 | The Berzerkergrindcore, industrial metal | 1,505 | -6 |
41 | Deez Nutshardcore punk, metal | 1,469 | +4 |
42 | Cosmic Psychospunk, punk rock | 1,431 | +7 |
43 | Folk Bitch Trioindie folk, folk | 1,429 | -7 |
44 | Southern Sonsrock | 1,419 | -5 |
45 | Deströyer 666black metal, thrash metal | 1,408 | -1 |
46 | The Chantooziespop | 1,364 | +6 |
47 | Dream On Dreamerpost-hardcore, electronicore | 1,354 | +24 |
48 | The Basicscountry, folk | 1,313 | +2 |
49 | Something for Katealternative rock, rock | 1,310 | +9 |
50 | Camp Copeindie rock, alternative rock | 1,269 | -2 |
83 | Noart rock, post-punk | 487 | +20 |
84 | The Indelible Murtcepsprogressive rock | 466 | +20 |
68 | Midnight Juggernautselectronica, electropop | 827 | +12 |
65 | The Loved Onesblues rock, rock | 905 | +10 |
53 | The Smith Street Bandpunk rock | 1,228 | +9 |
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.