Alternative rock

This chart is based on the monthly listeners metric for all artists tagged with the genre alternative rock by Spotify. It may contain some errors or some data may not be up to date. You can check the artist profile to update data if necessary.

#	Artist	Monthly Listeners	Followers
1	Red Hot Chili Peppers	36,761,465	21,618,706
2	Radiohead	30,304,591	10,886,261
3	The Killers	24,833,805	7,554,460
4	Foo Fighters	18,462,059	12,151,132
5	R.E.M.	18,003,812	4,798,108
6	The White Stripes	15,607,044	3,261,922
7	The Strokes	15,581,535	5,968,282
8	Muse	15,444,226	8,018,650
9	MGMT	15,327,311	3,240,277
10	Weezer	14,846,970	3,931,065
11	Pearl Jam	14,084,504	9,159,981
12	The Clash	13,855,636	2,879,975
13	The Smashing Pumpkins	12,143,402	5,411,075
14	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	11,544,184	1,369,224
15	Blur	11,199,102	3,527,985
16	Talking Heads	10,982,889	2,584,405
17	Jimmy Eat World	10,629,422	1,628,433
18	Rage Against The Machine	10,362,399	6,261,187
19	Pixies	10,216,748	3,156,980
20	The Black Keys	9,695,130	4,056,318
21	Incubus	8,804,306	3,373,832
22	Franz Ferdinand	8,791,541	2,736,648
23	Alice In Chains	8,193,909	5,394,644
24	Audioslave	8,043,339	4,669,473
25	Beastie Boys	7,429,832	2,934,293
26	Jimi Hendrix	7,302,955	6,923,183
27	Soundgarden	6,858,808	4,585,176
28	Queens of the Stone Age	6,160,094	3,619,377
29	Stone Temple Pilots	6,159,125	3,636,715
30	New Order	6,092,286	2,275,569
31	Ramones	5,984,462	2,725,563
32	Beck	5,937,450	1,606,219
33	Third Eye Blind	5,296,178	1,631,856
34	Supergrass	4,698,976	626,543
35	Portishead	4,534,440	2,123,675
36	Nine Inch Nails	4,324,789	2,740,244
37	Joy Division	4,223,997	2,560,560
38	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	4,148,365	1,472,142
39	Iggy Pop	4,023,196	1,671,094
40	Blind Melon	3,890,230	1,232,205
41	Modest Mouse	3,591,327	1,499,977
42	Arcade Fire	3,568,051	2,327,099
43	The Velvet Underground	3,471,519	2,006,372
44	Cocteau Twins	3,415,805	1,126,448
45	Death Cab for Cutie	3,360,141	1,549,570
46	Bush	3,298,730	1,920,937
47	CAKE	3,289,735	1,212,452
48	Placebo	3,274,190	1,982,997
49	The Shins	3,197,038	1,196,891
50	Bloc Party	3,117,103	1,158,163
51	Elliott Smith	3,076,642	1,188,040
52	Hole	3,005,602	1,262,331
53	Collective Soul	3,002,925	1,142,714
54	Slowdive	2,929,194	1,148,772
55	Faith No More	2,789,859	1,862,357
56	311	2,718,859	1,091,504
57	Fugazi	2,673,133	595,032
58	Violent Femmes	2,597,122	758,469
59	Wolfmother	2,467,728	965,997
60	LCD Soundsystem	2,462,960	1,151,990
61	The Presidents Of The United States Of America	2,443,986	649,327
62	Soul Asylum	2,385,349	643,348
63	Garbage	2,336,207	1,245,208
64	Björk	2,303,179	2,186,893
65	Marcy Playground	2,255,222	449,353
66	Everclear	2,221,038	1,002,061
67	Siouxsie and the Banshees	2,208,905	1,191,419
68	Pavement	2,158,423	657,607
69	Interpol	2,145,382	1,751,444
70	Pulp	2,072,167	979,436
71	Chris Cornell	1,982,512	2,226,622
72	A Perfect Circle	1,969,592	1,923,967
73	The Hives	1,928,603	839,453
74	The Psychedelic Furs	1,897,661	616,059
75	Silverchair	1,870,536	1,278,683
76	Echo & the Bunnymen	1,790,626	961,222
77	The Raconteurs	1,693,953	913,547
78	Candlebox	1,690,002	892,167
79	Wilco	1,687,541	774,328
80	Spoon	1,605,297	660,645
81	Eels	1,594,556	477,363
82	Sonic Youth	1,555,681	1,224,309
83	Thom Yorke	1,547,954	1,130,269
84	PJ Harvey	1,513,640	1,128,450
85	TV On The Radio	1,459,936	636,962
86	The Dandy Warhols	1,442,867	334,313
87	Filter	1,436,789	551,448
88	Jack White	1,421,646	1,375,120
89	Temple Of The Dog	1,420,321	1,290,872
90	Sex Pistols	1,383,204	1,869,198
91	Jane's Addiction	1,377,244	1,455,575
92	DEVO	1,321,540	585,432
93	Belle and Sebastian	1,286,385	683,605
94	Neutral Milk Hotel	1,221,187	729,582
95	The Flaming Lips	1,219,496	815,711
96	Ween	1,206,771	455,729
97	Primal Scream	1,187,338	526,401
98	my bloody valentine	1,171,261	990,705
99	The Breeders	1,123,242	487,765
100	Dead Kennedys	1,074,383	862,507
101	Primus	1,068,175	1,215,724
102	Velvet Revolver	1,046,912	1,524,061
103	Silversun Pickups	1,027,189	656,364
104	Eagles Of Death Metal	962,668	552,138
105	Butthole Surfers	935,948	354,102
106	Bauhaus	871,165	912,481
107	The Stooges	869,434	646,687
108	The Magnetic Fields	859,157	231,614
109	Yo La Tengo	832,309	531,753
110	Urge Overkill	826,234	63,350
111	Citizen Cope	812,990	354,255
112	The Vines	811,842	370,232
113	Buzzcocks	811,801	441,837
114	The Lemonheads	788,633	256,450
115	Corey Taylor	774,196	620,065
116	The Brian Jonestown Massacre	763,735	375,473
117	Toadies	753,856	300,470
118	The Jesus and Mary Chain	750,736	495,700
119	Them Crooked Vultures	724,385	587,449
120	XTC	723,009	339,945
121	Stereolab	659,817	321,840
122	The Replacements	646,078	295,506
123	Wire	600,500	204,368
124	Cracker	586,339	110,538
125	Dinosaur Jr.	563,899	554,547
126	Helmet	555,195	314,582
127	Mad Season	554,989	618,206
128	L7	523,847	322,360
129	Animal Collective	520,290	535,489
130	Liz Phair	508,675	181,387
131	Sparklehorse	498,249	165,936
132	Broken Social Scene	489,285	363,393
133	Melvins	464,075	392,125
134	Gang Of Four	437,737	246,965
135	Veruca Salt	422,906	276,262
136	Black Flag	421,755	648,048
137	Guided By Voices	406,446	174,839
138	The Modern Lovers	395,892	172,958
139	Built To Spill	395,311	308,547
140	Big Star	388,835	155,735
141	Meat Puppets	385,425	282,745
142	Parquet Courts	374,786	285,134
143	Lush	370,579	238,741
144	Dave Grohl	339,870	252,207
145	Public Image Ltd.	339,025	313,107
146	Daniel Johnston	337,643	297,780
147	X	330,061	158,234
148	Screaming Trees	328,504	328,845
149	Deerhunter	320,821	391,178
150	Television	318,973	367,069
151	Ride	307,224	230,163
152	Mudhoney	305,473	291,943
153	Grandaddy	266,971	162,913
154	Sleater-Kinney	264,894	268,334
155	Silver Jews	259,234	101,577
156	Spiritualized	257,221	249,513
157	Mercury Rev	256,938	122,087
158	Soul Coughing	254,009	127,398
159	Porno for Pyros	243,809	294,419
160	Mutemath	241,535	205,919
161	Mother Love Bone	230,783	351,857
162	The Sugarcubes	219,337	213,415
163	Minutemen	218,400	165,495
164	Teenage Fanclub	212,688	142,685
165	Matthew Sweet	206,659	77,181
166	The Dead Milkmen	204,443	149,770
167	Slint	198,689	214,441
168	Hüsker Dü	191,110	239,651
169	Galaxie 500	179,600	163,895
170	The Fall	175,001	198,085
171	The Vaselines	136,894	76,156
172	Sebadoh	132,437	119,244
173	Wipers	131,570	96,058
174	Frank Black	130,224	115,173
175	Rivers Cuomo	128,288	47,959
176	The Afghan Whigs	121,556	118,395
177	Archers Of Loaf	121,133	53,294
178	Paul Westerberg	120,442	53,505
179	Perry Farrell	119,705	43,799
180	The Jesus Lizard	96,176	93,834
181	Billy Corgan	88,091	46,521
182	Superchunk	83,979	77,274
183	Throwing Muses	82,157	78,788
184	The Feelies	81,255	67,515
185	J Mascis	80,289	82,711
186	Sugar	73,533	69,007
187	Camper Van Beethoven	72,513	45,839
188	Buffalo Tom	68,593	42,771
189	Beat Happening	60,191	54,483
190	Mission Of Burma	59,362	70,132
191	Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks	55,012	70,509
192	Courtney Love	51,182	233,500
193	Thurston Moore	50,747	90,818
194	Stephen Malkmus	49,553	69,793
195	Bob Mould	48,626	74,098
196	Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros	18,372	60,013
197	Frank Black & The Catholics	15,855	20,161
198	James Iha	10,594	14,135