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The 50 most-read bands based in Melbourne, by Wikipedia readership in August 2026. Movement compares against July 2026.
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105 bands are ranked in Melbourne. The biggest move was King Parrot, up 21 places.
| # | Artist | Readers | 30d |
|---|---|---|---|
01 | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizardpsychedelic rock, garage rock | 74,737 | 0 |
02 | Men at Workrock, new wave | 39,611 | 0 |
03 | Nick Cave & the Bad Seedsalternative rock, post-punk | 37,456 | +2 |
04 | Air Supplysoft rock, ballad | 34,756 | -1 |
05 | The Temper Trapindie rock, indie pop | 33,836 | +2 |
06 | Amyl and the Snifferspunk rock, garage rock | 31,605 | +2 |
07 | Little River Bandrock | 28,154 | -1 |
08 | Crowded Housealternative rock, pop rock | 27,764 | -4 |
09 | Jetgarage rock, rock | 20,501 | +3 |
10 | The Seekersfolk pop, folk | 20,111 | -1 |
11 | The Avalanchesplunderphonics, hip hop | 17,292 | 0 |
12 | Dead Can Dancedark wave, ethereal wave | 12,360 | -2 |
13 | The Birthday Partypost-punk, gothic rock | 10,268 | 0 |
14 | NERVOprogressive house, edm | 7,491 | +5 |
15 | Glass Beamsneo-psychedelia, psychedelic | 6,747 | +1 |
16 | TISMalternative rock | 6,348 | -1 |
17 | The Cat Empirejazz, ska | 5,747 | +6 |
18 | The Living Endpunk, rock | 5,429 | +4 |
19 | The Teskey Brothersblues rock, soul | 5,146 | -5 |
20 | Tropical Fuck Stormart punk, psychedelic rock | 4,586 | -3 |
21 | Thornhillprogressive metalcore, alternative metal | 4,412 | -3 |
22 | Pseudo Echonew wave | 4,194 | -1 |
23 | Skyhooksglam rock | 3,804 | +1 |
24 | Hiatus Kaiyoteneo soul, experimental | 3,796 | -4 |
25 | Foetusindustrial rock, experimental rock | 3,496 | +2 |
26 | Ne Obliviscarisprogressive metal, melodic death metal | 3,283 | -1 |
27 | Dirty Threeinstrumental, post-rock | 2,981 | +3 |
28 | Eddy Current Suppression Ringgarage rock, indie rock | 2,882 | +8 |
29 | Daddy Coolrock | 2,854 | +6 |
30 | Hunters & Collectorsrock | 2,804 | -2 |
31 | Folk Bitch Trioindie folk, folk | 2,709 | +3 |
32 | Ocean Grovenu metal, metalcore | 2,423 | +12 |
33 | Cut Copyelectropop, synth-pop | 2,413 | -1 |
34 | Frente!folk pop, indie folk | 2,380 | +4 |
35 | Rogue Tradersdance-pop, electronic rock | 2,187 | -9 |
36 | Modelsrock | 2,111 | +1 |
37 | Deez Nutshardcore punk, metal | 1,982 | +2 |
38 | Cosmic Psychospunk, punk rock | 1,907 | -9 |
39 | 1927dark wave, alternative rock | 1,903 | -6 |
40 | The Basicscountry, folk | 1,860 | +9 |
41 | Windwakermetalcore | 1,823 | +4 |
42 | Twelve Foot Ninjaalternative metal, alternative rock | 1,756 | -2 |
43 | HTRKambient pop, ambient dub | 1,754 | +14 |
44 | Be’lakormelodic death metal, progressive metal | 1,672 | -2 |
45 | The Berzerkergrindcore, industrial metal | 1,661 | -4 |
46 | Boom Crash Operapop rock | 1,545 | +2 |
47 | King Parrotgrindcore | 1,474 | +21 |
48 | Closure in Moscowalternative rock, progressive rock | 1,470 | +13 |
49 | The Black Sorrowsblues, americana | 1,452 | -3 |
50 | Deströyer 666black metal, thrash metal | 1,448 | -7 |
58 | Buster Brownhard rock, rock | 1,215 | +26 |
81 | My Discomath rock, post-punk | 601 | +24 |
56 | The Dingoescountry rock | 1,291 | +11 |
93 | Rocket Sciencealternative rock | 388 | +11 |
83 | The Sharprock | 536 | +10 |
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.