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Bands from Toronto

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

91 bands are ranked in Toronto. The biggest move was The Stellas, up 40 places.

#	Artist	Readers	30d
01	Rushprogressive rock, rock	138,343	0
02	The Bandfolk rock, country rock	65,716	+1
03	Barenaked Ladiesalternative rock, acoustic rock	56,304	+1
04	The Beachesindie rock, garage rock	45,189	-2
05	Steppenwolfhard rock, rock	27,728	0
06	Crystal Castleselectroclash, bitpop	25,027	+1
07	Metricindie rock, electronic	21,892	+1
08	Broken Social Sceneindie rock, art rock	20,031	+1
09	LENindie rock, pop	14,309	-3
10	femtanylbreakcore, digital hardcore	13,589	0
11	Blue Rodeocountry rock, folk	13,523	+7
12	Alvvaysdream pop, indie pop	10,084	+3
13	Our Lady Peacealternative rock, pop rock	9,587	-2
14	Cowboy Junkiesfolk, alternative country	9,565	-2
15	Majid Jordanalternative r&b, contemporary r&b	8,308	+13
16	Cancer Batshardcore punk, southern rock	7,877	+16
17	Bob and Doug McKenziecomedy	7,509	-1
18	Good Kidindie rock, indie pop	7,134	+2
19	Zeds Deaddubstep, drum and bass	6,985	-6
20	PUPpunk rock, punk	6,593	+11
21	BADBADNOTGOODhip hop, instrumental hip hop	6,546	-7
22	MAGIC!pop, pop rock	6,519	+2
23	Klaatuprogressive rock, rock	6,406	0
24	Starsindie rock, dream pop	5,835	+1
25	Death From Above 1979dance-punk, rock	5,710	-8
26	Anvilheavy metal, metal	5,473	-7
27	Red Rideraor, new wave	5,271	-1
28	Max Websterhard rock, aor	4,954	+1
29	Martha and the Muffinspop rock, rock	4,861	-7
30	Saint Asoniaalternative metal, alternative rock	4,542	0
31	TR/STsynth-pop, dark wave	4,284	+4
32	Lighthousejazz rock, pop rock	3,923	-5
33	Danko Joneshard rock, rock	3,873	+1
34	Rhyer&b, downtempo	3,745	+2
35	Ian & Sylviafolk	3,647	+2
36	Rough Tradenew wave, rock	3,512	-15
37	Dragonettedance, dance-pop	3,503	-4
38	The Diamondspop	3,471	+4
39	Black Dressesnoise pop, electronic	3,317	-1
40	Timber Timbrefolk	3,223	0
41	Platinum Blondenew wave, power pop	2,990	+2
42	Austraelectronic, experimental	2,966	+28
43	dvsnalternative r&b, contemporary r&b	2,952	+1
44	DD/MM/YYYYart rock	2,891	-5
45	Prozzäkdance-pop, pop	2,864	0
46	Fucked Uphardcore punk, post-hardcore	2,792	+4
47	Torontohard rock	2,727	+13
48	July Talkrock, blues rock	2,662	+5
49	The Stellascountry	2,645	+40
50	The Four Ladstraditional pop	2,581	+6

Rising outside the top 50this month

58	The Weather Stationindie folk, folk	2,259	+26
55	Before Fourpop	2,401	+11
80	The Hidden Camerasalternative rock	1,198	+8
72	Abandon All Shipselectronicore, electronic	1,380	+7
84	Autumn Hillcountry	1,111	+7

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.