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	36,144,981	21,691,052
2	Radiohead	30,083,558	10,962,435
3	The Killers	24,406,434	7,574,751
4	Foo Fighters	18,470,245	12,186,845
5	R.E.M.	17,788,870	4,824,066
6	Muse	15,516,931	8,037,716
7	The White Stripes	15,392,952	3,274,782
8	The Strokes	15,317,493	5,992,910
9	MGMT	14,768,252	3,256,274
10	Weezer	14,660,238	3,957,251
11	Pearl Jam	14,522,896	9,195,167
12	The Clash	13,360,809	2,893,441
13	The Smashing Pumpkins	11,939,000	5,438,822
14	Blur	11,170,667	3,545,317
15	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	10,656,637	1,377,337
16	Jimmy Eat World	10,565,992	1,635,945
17	Rage Against The Machine	10,380,983	6,287,266
18	Pixies	10,111,886	3,176,300
19	The Black Keys	9,109,377	4,061,559
20	Franz Ferdinand	8,966,607	2,748,556
21	Incubus	8,602,132	3,384,464
22	Talking Heads	8,207,174	2,596,901
23	Alice In Chains	8,030,724	5,421,608
24	Audioslave	7,362,563	4,684,549
25	Beastie Boys	7,285,431	2,943,380
26	Jimi Hendrix	7,217,759	6,940,812
27	Soundgarden	6,808,509	4,604,350
28	Queens of the Stone Age	5,964,807	3,626,783
29	New Order	5,935,885	2,284,573
30	Beck	5,848,767	1,610,433
31	Stone Temple Pilots	5,841,056	3,650,259
32	Ramones	5,661,901	2,734,864
33	Third Eye Blind	5,218,280	1,636,420
34	Supergrass	4,708,175	628,872
35	Portishead	4,464,648	2,132,684
36	Nine Inch Nails	4,190,604	2,749,557
37	Joy Division	4,166,328	2,570,693
38	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	3,899,183	1,477,199
39	Iggy Pop	3,894,993	1,676,012
40	Blind Melon	3,760,222	1,236,031
41	Arcade Fire	3,591,685	2,330,312
42	The Velvet Underground	3,463,967	2,011,516
43	Cocteau Twins	3,448,334	1,134,339
44	Modest Mouse	3,308,910	1,502,823
45	The Shins	3,266,591	1,198,600
46	Death Cab for Cutie	3,263,025	1,552,364
47	Placebo	3,250,260	1,987,945
48	CAKE	3,240,773	1,216,356
49	Bush	3,238,190	1,927,454
50	Elliott Smith	3,190,557	1,194,973
51	Bloc Party	3,108,124	1,160,178
52	Collective Soul	2,949,000	1,145,370
53	Slowdive	2,937,853	1,155,781
54	Hole	2,912,063	1,268,061
55	Faith No More	2,769,757	1,865,667
56	311	2,662,104	1,093,947
57	Violent Femmes	2,564,645	761,882
58	LCD Soundsystem	2,469,430	1,155,375
59	Wolfmother	2,413,874	968,113
60	The Presidents Of The United States Of America	2,382,360	650,928
61	Soul Asylum	2,375,425	646,298
62	Björk	2,362,216	2,197,845
63	Garbage	2,289,803	1,247,609
64	Marcy Playground	2,205,462	450,933
65	Everclear	2,175,804	1,003,869
66	Interpol	2,107,889	1,755,104
67	Pavement	2,082,791	661,011
68	Pulp	2,053,679	982,016
69	Fugazi	2,043,746	615,522
70	Chris Cornell	1,967,085	2,229,831
71	A Perfect Circle	1,948,155	1,929,637
72	Siouxsie and the Banshees	1,918,982	1,196,315
73	The Hives	1,872,427	840,581
74	Silverchair	1,865,101	1,281,427
75	The Psychedelic Furs	1,831,481	618,220
76	Candlebox	1,690,002	892,167
77	Wilco	1,685,354	775,956
78	The Raconteurs	1,681,912	914,954
79	Echo & the Bunnymen	1,667,582	964,053
80	Spoon	1,627,763	661,550
81	Eels	1,613,063	478,261
82	Sonic Youth	1,526,129	1,228,570
83	PJ Harvey	1,499,789	1,131,406
84	Thom Yorke	1,490,360	1,133,815
85	Jack White	1,488,241	1,379,200
86	TV On The Radio	1,423,793	639,715
87	Filter	1,409,776	552,722
88	The Dandy Warhols	1,409,694	334,972
89	Temple Of The Dog	1,405,910	1,295,874
90	Jane's Addiction	1,399,367	1,458,437
91	Sex Pistols	1,382,265	1,873,931
92	The Flaming Lips	1,301,326	817,219
93	Belle and Sebastian	1,278,552	685,225
94	DEVO	1,265,717	587,046
95	Neutral Milk Hotel	1,240,188	731,800
96	Ween	1,193,452	457,572
97	my bloody valentine	1,192,196	996,803
98	Primal Scream	1,176,624	528,076
99	The Breeders	1,123,242	487,765
100	Primus	1,064,025	1,219,391
101	Velvet Revolver	1,044,623	1,526,459
102	Silversun Pickups	1,036,810	657,420
103	Dead Kennedys	1,015,841	866,366
104	Eagles Of Death Metal	989,927	553,071
105	Bauhaus	918,415	929,743
106	Local H	877,988	231,203
107	Butthole Surfers	869,804	381,412
108	The Stooges	869,434	646,687
109	The Magnetic Fields	859,157	231,614
110	Urge Overkill	838,738	67,897
111	Corey Taylor	825,108	628,570
112	Yo La Tengo	820,044	532,743
113	Citizen Cope	818,258	354,617
114	The Vines	811,842	370,232
115	Buzzcocks	805,079	443,140
116	The Lemonheads	788,633	256,450
117	The Brian Jonestown Massacre	763,735	375,473
118	The Jesus and Mary Chain	750,736	495,700
119	Broken Social Scene	735,089	379,090
120	Toadies	731,269	311,358
121	Them Crooked Vultures	724,385	587,449
122	XTC	723,009	339,945
123	The Replacements	646,078	295,506
124	Stereolab	626,375	342,025
125	Cracker	586,339	110,538
126	Dinosaur Jr.	566,276	556,005
127	Helmet	555,195	314,582
128	Mad Season	554,989	618,206
129	L7	524,994	340,227
130	Liz Phair	516,618	188,429
131	Sparklehorse	455,325	173,671
132	Gang Of Four	446,611	247,568
133	Animal Collective	440,615	549,338
134	Veruca Salt	427,270	292,141
135	Black Flag	421,755	648,048
136	Lush	402,460	259,315
137	Built To Spill	395,311	308,547
138	Wire	386,131	212,806
139	Meat Puppets	385,425	282,745
140	Big Star	376,272	161,814
141	Parquet Courts	374,786	285,134
142	Melvins	356,414	411,147
143	The Modern Lovers	355,622	176,578
144	Television	350,880	379,279
145	Dave Grohl	339,870	252,207
146	Public Image Ltd.	339,025	313,107
147	X	330,061	158,234
148	Screaming Trees	328,504	328,845
149	Daniel Johnston	325,049	309,565
150	Deerhunter	320,821	391,178
151	Grandaddy	310,773	167,867
152	Mudhoney	305,473	291,943
153	Guided By Voices	284,875	181,518
154	Spiritualized	282,595	256,896
155	Mercury Rev	271,772	127,878
156	Ride	271,328	241,717
157	Silver Jews	259,234	101,577
158	Soul Coughing	254,009	127,398
159	Sleater-Kinney	247,116	269,681
160	Porno for Pyros	243,809	294,419
161	Mutemath	241,535	205,919
162	Mother Love Bone	230,783	351,857
163	The Sugarcubes	225,060	225,159
164	Minutemen	219,504	166,078
165	The Dead Milkmen	206,761	150,189
166	Matthew Sweet	206,659	77,181
167	Slint	202,483	215,819
168	Galaxie 500	201,396	172,258
169	Hüsker Dü	191,110	239,651
170	Teenage Fanclub	188,549	147,014
171	The Fall	184,426	200,274
172	Courtney Love	145,568	248,377
173	The Vaselines	136,894	76,156
174	Sebadoh	132,437	119,244
175	Wipers	131,570	96,058
176	Frank Black	130,224	115,173
177	The Afghan Whigs	129,191	118,976
178	Rivers Cuomo	123,063	48,196
179	Archers Of Loaf	121,133	53,294
180	Paul Westerberg	120,442	53,505
181	Perry Farrell	119,705	43,799
182	The Jesus Lizard	96,176	93,834
183	Billy Corgan	88,091	46,521
184	Throwing Muses	82,157	78,788
185	The Feelies	81,255	67,515
186	Camper Van Beethoven	72,513	45,839
187	Superchunk	70,889	80,100
188	J Mascis	70,697	84,877
189	Buffalo Tom	68,593	42,771
190	Thurston Moore	65,823	94,154
191	Sugar	63,481	70,905
192	Beat Happening	60,191	54,483
193	Mission Of Burma	59,362	70,132
194	Bob Mould	48,626	74,098
195	Stephen Malkmus	45,133	71,662
196	Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks	43,043	71,600
197	Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros	18,372	60,013
198	Frank Black & The Catholics	15,855	20,161
199	James Iha	10,594	14,135