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American Bands

The 50 most-read American bands, by Wikipedia readership in October 2026. Movement compares against September 2026.

76 bands are ranked in United States. The biggest move was Dead Man’s Bones, up 40 places.

#	Artist	Readers	30d
01	KATSEYEdance-pop, pop	439,261	0
02	Eaglesrock, country rock	312,022	+7
03	Turnstilehardcore punk, punk	268,411	+14
04	Metallicathrash metal, heavy metal	191,555	+1
05	Linkin Parknu metal, rock	183,948	-3
06	Lynyrd Skynyrdsouthern rock, hard rock	156,678	+1
07	The Smashing Pumpkinsalternative rock, dream pop	155,150	+8
08	Backstreet Boyspop, teen pop	153,994	+6
09	Queens of the Stone Agestoner rock, hard rock	145,083	+1
10	The Beach Boyssurf rock, pop	138,476	+1
11	My Chemical Romancepop punk, alternative rock	120,238	-3
12	Slipknotnu metal, alternative metal	119,540	-8
13	Nirvanagrunge, alternative rock	118,468	-10
14	Wu‐Tang Clanhip hop, boom bap	115,004	-8
15	Journeyrock, arena rock	111,814	-3
16	blink‐182pop punk, punk rock	110,947	0
17	The Debut: Dream Academyk-pop, pop	62,605	+1
18	Beavis and Butt‐Headcomedy	59,120	+6
19	Lyle Lovett and His Large Bandfolk	54,862	+1
20	Sesame Streetchildren's music	53,160	-1
21	The Rat Packswing, vocal jazz	44,216	+1
22	The Chipmunksrock, country	42,770	+7
23	Smoshcomedy	38,014	+4
24	The Highwaymenoutlaw country, country	36,443	+1
25	Marx Brotherscomedy	36,051	-2
26	Czarfacehip hop	33,791	-13
27	Starshiprock, arena rock	32,921	+1
28	Rhett & Linkcomedy	32,200	-2
29	Dead Man’s Bonesindie folk	29,238	+40
30	The Try Guyscomedy	24,747	+9
31	boygeniusindie rock, indie folk	24,432	-1
32	HUNTR/Xk-pop	24,410	+30
33	Hollywood Vampiresblues rock, rock	22,082	-12
34	CollegeHumor’s Dropoutcomedy	21,634	-2
35	The Wrecking Crewrock and roll	20,937	-2
36	Caesar & Cleopop, pop rock	18,045	-1
37	Morphinealternative rock, rock	17,932	+7
38	Damn Yankeeshard rock, rock	16,944	-2
39	CollegeHumorcomedy	16,844	+1
40	The Chipettespop	16,775	+13
41	Daughtryalternative rock, hard rock	16,547	+2
42	Chapo Trap Housecomedy	16,532	-8
43	Trans‐Siberian Orchestrasymphonic metal, progressive rock	15,523	-6
44	Silk Sonicfunk, r&b	15,134	-2
45	Garfunkel and Oatescomedy, folk	15,082	+2
46	Run the Jewelship hop, hardcore hip hop	13,649	+2
47	Spın̈al Tapcomedy	13,604	+4
48	Exilesoft rock, country rock	13,460	+17
49	The Smothers Brotherscomedy, contemporary folk	13,431	-8
50	Womack & Womackfunk, r&b	12,414	-5

Rising outside the top 50this month

61	The Newton Brotherscinematic classical	9,698	+14
60	The Winans Familygospel	9,707	+12
63	Pentakillpower metal	9,427	+11
68	Youth Codeebm, electro-industrial	8,485	+8
55	MercyMechristian rock, contemporary christian	10,460	+4

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