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	33,463,614	21,792,378
2	Radiohead	29,948,689	11,115,656
3	The Killers	24,400,018	7,604,778
4	Foo Fighters	18,362,545	12,239,722
5	R.E.M.	17,662,477	4,858,948
6	MGMT	15,641,368	3,292,830
7	Muse	15,213,795	8,066,594
8	The Strokes	15,204,062	6,029,672
9	The White Stripes	15,103,688	3,294,640
10	Weezer	14,554,484	3,998,265
11	Pearl Jam	14,245,002	9,242,764
12	The Clash	13,382,673	2,910,346
13	The Smashing Pumpkins	12,083,157	5,479,030
14	Jimmy Eat World	10,782,055	1,648,332
15	Blur	10,750,684	3,570,459
16	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	10,349,109	1,387,756
17	Pixies	9,889,667	3,203,677
18	Rage Against The Machine	9,570,073	6,323,122
19	Franz Ferdinand	9,037,963	2,764,786
20	Incubus	8,625,061	3,400,716
21	The Black Keys	8,607,675	4,069,201
22	Alice In Chains	8,131,930	5,461,943
23	Talking Heads	8,042,877	2,613,211
24	Audioslave	7,230,300	4,712,373
25	Beastie Boys	7,195,621	2,955,782
26	Jimi Hendrix	7,087,606	6,974,726
27	Soundgarden	6,772,898	4,632,056
28	Ramones	6,061,119	2,746,866
29	Queens of the Stone Age	5,977,042	3,640,186
30	Beck	5,827,964	1,617,676
31	New Order	5,782,802	2,296,833
32	Stone Temple Pilots	5,591,631	3,669,924
33	Third Eye Blind	5,438,509	1,643,374
34	Supergrass	4,697,219	632,044
35	Portishead	4,352,753	2,143,975
36	Nine Inch Nails	4,154,965	2,764,756
37	Iggy Pop	3,971,688	1,682,335
38	Joy Division	3,966,124	2,586,359
39	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	3,701,663	1,484,113
40	Blind Melon	3,631,515	1,240,964
41	Cocteau Twins	3,590,316	1,151,688
42	Arcade Fire	3,576,124	2,334,909
43	The Shins	3,533,977	1,200,869
44	The Velvet Underground	3,516,124	2,019,597
45	Elliott Smith	3,445,610	1,204,913
46	Bloc Party	3,235,604	1,163,237
47	Placebo	3,223,509	1,996,565
48	Bush	3,220,537	1,936,512
49	Modest Mouse	3,186,962	1,506,937
50	CAKE	3,161,222	1,222,114
51	Death Cab for Cutie	3,135,329	1,556,302
52	Faith No More	2,926,927	1,871,595
53	Slowdive	2,893,990	1,170,689
54	Hole	2,878,600	1,280,388
55	Collective Soul	2,846,738	1,151,094
56	311	2,619,809	1,099,169
57	Violent Femmes	2,493,625	766,842
58	The Presidents Of The United States Of America	2,424,250	654,566
59	Björk	2,418,167	2,216,414
60	LCD Soundsystem	2,411,161	1,159,739
61	Wolfmother	2,367,483	971,218
62	Soul Asylum	2,315,669	650,495
63	Garbage	2,303,786	1,252,526
64	Marcy Playground	2,163,584	454,086
65	Fugazi	2,144,212	621,608
66	Interpol	2,121,941	1,761,209
67	Pavement	2,082,765	666,006
68	Pulp	2,065,626	986,956
69	Everclear	2,053,419	1,008,001
70	The Hives	1,977,340	843,426
71	Chris Cornell	1,967,569	2,234,577
72	A Perfect Circle	1,946,380	1,937,197
73	Silverchair	1,887,796	1,284,835
74	Eels	1,867,975	480,242
75	Siouxsie and the Banshees	1,811,095	1,206,836
76	The Psychedelic Furs	1,754,135	622,064
77	Candlebox	1,726,477	923,791
78	Wilco	1,693,935	779,122
79	Spoon	1,673,660	663,140
80	The Raconteurs	1,668,691	917,245
81	Echo & the Bunnymen	1,653,554	970,488
82	Sonic Youth	1,519,966	1,233,879
83	Jack White	1,474,854	1,384,610
84	PJ Harvey	1,469,457	1,136,469
85	The Flaming Lips	1,438,537	819,917
86	TV On The Radio	1,424,743	644,740
87	The Dandy Warhols	1,420,837	336,477
88	Temple Of The Dog	1,419,807	1,302,326
89	Thom Yorke	1,406,766	1,139,442
90	DEVO	1,403,234	589,735
91	Filter	1,397,758	555,373
92	Sex Pistols	1,394,468	1,883,490
93	Ween	1,321,194	460,138
94	Belle and Sebastian	1,320,935	687,341
95	Jane's Addiction	1,319,217	1,462,503
96	my bloody valentine	1,245,623	1,004,278
97	Neutral Milk Hotel	1,210,625	736,049
98	The Breeders	1,123,242	487,765
99	Silversun Pickups	1,071,773	659,250
100	Primus	1,059,825	1,226,096
101	Eagles Of Death Metal	1,051,271	554,582
102	Velvet Revolver	1,050,025	1,528,205
103	Primal Scream	1,036,214	529,749
104	Dead Kennedys	996,846	871,232
105	Local H	924,637	233,560
106	Corey Taylor	880,487	630,047
107	The Magnetic Fields	877,346	243,151
108	Yo La Tengo	866,657	534,982
109	The Brian Jonestown Massacre	844,864	378,395
110	Butthole Surfers	840,724	386,513
111	Urge Overkill	825,547	68,718
112	The Stooges	823,480	650,501
113	The Vines	811,842	370,232
114	Bauhaus	798,614	937,024
115	Buzzcocks	788,413	444,828
116	Citizen Cope	787,915	355,325
117	The Jesus and Mary Chain	778,687	514,051
118	Broken Social Scene	771,193	380,681
119	Toadies	717,877	313,746
120	The Lemonheads	702,819	261,722
121	Stereolab	674,554	345,605
122	XTC	656,949	343,454
123	Helmet	612,870	326,638
124	Cracker	589,184	112,215
125	Mad Season	583,143	638,892
126	The Replacements	580,191	303,798
127	Dinosaur Jr.	572,547	558,249
128	Them Crooked Vultures	549,525	598,914
129	L7	519,931	343,592
130	Dave Grohl	495,618	255,019
131	Liz Phair	494,269	189,215
132	Gang Of Four	481,914	249,688
133	Wire	457,586	214,309
134	Sparklehorse	450,995	174,769
135	Animal Collective	446,923	550,219
136	Veruca Salt	419,270	295,511
137	Lush	412,940	262,319
138	Black Flag	406,734	654,834
139	Built To Spill	366,835	318,257
140	Meat Puppets	358,856	292,644
141	Television	356,413	380,531
142	Parquet Courts	356,015	289,255
143	The Modern Lovers	351,724	177,042
144	Melvins	351,216	414,152
145	Big Star	350,240	162,724
146	Daniel Johnston	340,718	312,068
147	Public Image Ltd.	335,372	314,941
148	X	322,779	159,295
149	Grandaddy	316,911	168,784
150	Guided By Voices	316,442	182,275
151	Screaming Trees	316,252	340,327
152	Deerhunter	314,972	395,967
153	Ride	282,933	243,397
154	Spiritualized	276,552	258,362
155	Mudhoney	264,515	303,447
156	Mercury Rev	262,486	128,687
157	Silver Jews	253,887	108,601
158	Porno for Pyros	241,804	302,800
159	Mutemath	240,799	208,558
160	Minutemen	234,698	166,975
161	The Sugarcubes	232,165	227,117
162	Mother Love Bone	232,033	360,971
163	Sleater-Kinney	230,643	270,631
164	Soul Coughing	223,607	134,027
165	The Dead Milkmen	203,124	151,120
166	Galaxie 500	200,575	173,402
167	The Fall	197,230	201,185
168	Teenage Fanclub	187,817	147,830
169	Hüsker Dü	181,017	244,309
170	Matthew Sweet	174,198	77,605
171	Slint	170,874	218,394
172	The Vaselines	136,817	81,415
173	Frank Black	136,581	115,866
174	Sebadoh	132,148	119,741
175	The Afghan Whigs	126,430	119,539
176	Rivers Cuomo	124,533	48,618
177	Wipers	124,190	101,074
178	Courtney Love	121,797	249,734
179	Paul Westerberg	109,028	54,759
180	Perry Farrell	107,827	43,834
181	Billy Corgan	91,053	48,270
182	Archers Of Loaf	89,511	55,619
183	Throwing Muses	88,443	82,311
184	The Jesus Lizard	82,425	101,064
185	The Feelies	78,053	69,066
186	J Mascis	75,045	85,189
187	Camper Van Beethoven	70,481	46,087
188	Sugar	65,510	71,010
189	Superchunk	62,582	80,494
190	Buffalo Tom	62,244	44,183
191	Thurston Moore	62,174	94,410
192	Beat Happening	55,666	56,605
193	Mission Of Burma	55,176	72,056
194	Stephen Malkmus	46,531	71,874
195	Bob Mould	43,742	75,759
196	Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks	42,238	71,715
197	Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros	18,412	60,204
198	Frank Black & The Catholics	15,694	20,831
199	James Iha	11,045	14,760