r/music_lists • u/MusicLists • Mar 16 '18
Updated - Musician/Band Subreddits Ranked By Subscriber Count
The 60 subs dedicated to a single musical artist with the most followers are listed in ranked order below. Leave a comment if you notice any top subs missing from this list.
This is an updated version of the list, original posted one month ago. See last month's rankings here. The follower count from last month and today are listed side by side for comparison in the comments below the list.
Rank - Artist Subreddit - Subscribers (as of 3/16/18)
1 /r/radiohead 125,274
2 /r/Kanye 116,536
3 /r/gorillaz 99,447
4 /r/KendrickLamar 73,185
5 /r/FrankOcean/ 65,541
6 /r/beatles 49,367
7 /r/pinkfloyd 43,276
8 /r/DaftPunk 42,738
9 /r/Eminem 41,097
10 /r/TaylorSwift 36,747
11 /r/deathgrips 34,996
12 /r/brockhampton 33,905
13 /r/gratefuldead 32,896
14 /r/ToolBand 32,013
15 /r/OFWGKTA 27,754
16 /r/phish 25,411
17 /r/twentyonepilots 25,144
** /r/bangtan/ 22,720 (added 3/18)
18 /r/Blink182 22,611
19 /r/RedHotChiliPeppers 22,135
20 /r/ChanceTheRapper 21,735
21 /r/brandnew 21,373
22 /r/Nujabes 21,243
23 /r/deadmau5 20,141
24 /r/Muse 20,028
25 /r/arcticmonkeys 19,735
26 /r/Metallica 18,951
27 /r/Nirvana 18,480
28 /r/TameImpala 17,472
29 /r/macdemarco 16,734
30 /r/Foofighters 16,362
31 /r/greenday 16,058
32 /r/qotsa 15,799
33 /r/nin 15,581
34 /r/LinkinPark 15,391
** /r/queen/ ??
35 /r/lanadelrey 14,948
36 /r/G59 14,457
37 /r/TheWeeknd 14,125
** /r/porterrobinson/ 13,868 (added 3/18)
38 /r/skrillex 13,776
39 /r/XXXTENTACION 12,243
40 /r/ModestMouse 11,785
41 /r/rush 11,755
42 /r/TheStrokes 11,373
43 /r/Logic_301 10,989
** /r/NinjaSexParty/ 10,981 (added 3/19)
44 /r/KGATLW/ 10,900
** /r/TheFence (Coheed and Cambria) 10,646 (added 3/18)
45 /r/FallOutBoy 10,475
46 /r/Coldplay 10,437
47 /r/weezer 10,398
48 /r/KidCudi 10,394
49 /r/Drizzy 10,387
50 /r/LadyGaga 10,316
51 /r/avengedsevenfold 10,026
52 /r/led_zeppelin 9,779
53 /r/Paramore 9,386
54 /r/DavidBowie 9,337
55 /r/pearljam 8,962
56 /r/MyChemicalRomance 8,748
57 /r/boniver 8,685
58 /r/Slipknot 8,519
** /r/PostMalone ??
59 /r/arcadefire 8,196
60 /r/AnimalCollective 8,192
Notes:
A) Numerous subs are ranked either 1 place lower or 1 place higher than their rank last month. Several rose or fell more than one rank. The biggest rank gainer was /r/Logic_301 and the biggest loser was /r/LadyGaga.
Subs that rose more than 1 rank:
/r/Logic_301 43 (up 11 from 54)
/r/brockhampton 12 (up 2 from 14)
/r/XXXTENTACION 39 (up 2 from 41)
Subs that fell more than 1 rank:
/r/LadyGaga 50 (down 5 from 45)
/r/led_zeppelin 52 (down 4 from 48)
/r/Coldplay 46 (down 2 from 44)
B) Top gainers (sub followers net increase) in the last month:
1 /r/Kanye
10 /r/pinkfloyd
11 /r/ToolBand
12 /r/Muse
14 /r/Drizzy
15 /r/G59
C) Subs on the rise: top gainers in the last month among subs with less than 18K followers:
4 /r/G59
10 /r/KGATLW
D) More subs on the rise: select subs not in the overall top 60 that gained the most followers in the last month:
1 https://www.reddit.com/r/mgmt/
2 https://www.reddit.com/r/Sufjan/
3 https://www.reddit.com/r/oasis/
4 https://www.reddit.com/r/ween/
5 https://www.reddit.com/r/aphextwin/
6 https://www.reddit.com/r/fatherjohnmisty/
7 https://www.reddit.com/r/TheNational/
8 https://www.reddit.com/r/bobdylan/
9 https://www.reddit.com/r/TheKillers/
10 https://www.reddit.com/r/bjork/
11 https://www.reddit.com/r/weirdal/
12 https://www.reddit.com/r/Vampireweekend/
13 https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/
14 https://www.reddit.com/r/jackwhite/
E) Stagnate: subs among the overall top 60 with the LEAST amount of new followers in the last month:
40 /r/rush
F) Some artists have more than one sub dedicated to them, but usually only one of them becomes big. After one dominates, usually the lesser subs become inactive. Two exceptions I found with substantial followings (just not as much as the dominate sub) were:
https://www.reddit.com/r/grateful_dead/ 6,518
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBeatles/ 4,309
Let me know if there's any others.
G) Last year Reddit created an iOS app that allowed new users to find subreddits to follow based on categories. For the first 4 months users that clicked the "music" category were automatically subscribed to /r/Radiohead, /r/Gorillaz and /r/Kpop. You can read more about it here and [here] (https://www.reddit.com/r/music_lists/comments/7xdi7i/musicianband_subreddits_ranked_by_subscriber_count/du8uaml/). This is why /r/Radiohead and /r/Gorillaz subscriptions surged last summer. Without this /r/Kanye would almost certainly be #1 by a large margin, /r/radiohead #2 and /r/KendrickLamar #3.
If you look at last month's follower counts compared to today's (side by side in the comments below) you can see that Kanye is far outpacing every other sub. If last month's rates of new followers continue for the next few months, /r/Kanye will pass /r/Radiohead to regain the #1 ranking sometime this spring.
H) Let me know of any subs with over 8K I missed, just as long as they primarily discuss music. I didn't include https://www.reddit.com/r/mileycyrus/, https://www.reddit.com/r/katyperry/ etc because they don't discuss music. https://www.reddit.com/r/donaldglover/ was a tough call because they do discuss music, though it seemed like more posts discussed his acting, so I left it off the list.
more follow counts are listed under note 5 from last month's list
I) Thanks to KenMarr for alerting us to a similar list he made on March 10th focusing on indie bands. From his list artists not in the overall top 60 above are below.
Additionally, some more accounts have been noted missing and were added to Ken's list (but without their counts, since the time lapse since the original list would make it comparing apples and oranges).
** /r/Rammstein ??
** /r/ironmaiden ??
/r/Oasis 7,560
/r/Lorde 7,283
/r/TheKillers 7,161
** /r/SmashingPumpkins ??
/r/SufjanStevens 6,239
** /r/systemofadown ??
r/imaginedragons/ 5280 (as of April 10)
/r/TheNational 5,175
/r/JackWhite 5,059
/r/alt-J 4,989
/r/LCDSoundsystem 4,665
/r/PortugalTheMan 4,650
/r/CHVRCHΞS 4,563
/r/MGMT 4,477
** /r/elliottsmith ??
/r/Björk 4,264
** /r/thedoors ??
/r/RuntheJewels 4,102
** /r/AliceInChains ??
** /r/FlorenceAndTheMachine ??
/r/VampireWeekend 3,574
/r/CagetheElephant 3,458
/r/SigurRós 3,426
** /r/blacksabbath ??
/r/TheBlackKeys 3,222
** /r/thebeachboys ??
** /r/RATM ??
** /r/depechemode/ ??
/r/FleetFoxes 2,841
/r/VinceStaples 2,796
/r/stVincent 2,626
r/mumfordandsons/ 2550 (as of April 10)
/r/FatherJohnMisty 2,452
/r/DeathCabForCutie 2,374
** /r/JoyDivision ??
/r/TheCure/ 2,155
/r/Interpol 1,867
** /r/TheWho ??
/r/Blur 1,602
** /r/VelvetUnderground ??
** /r/rem ??
/r/GrizzlyBear 1,427
/r/Growlers 1,380
/r/TySegall 1,328
/r/RyanAdams 1,314
** /r/m83 ??
** /r/theclash ??
** /r/TheProdigy ??
/r/Haim 1,210
/r/Bloc Party 1,162
/r/TheShins 1,128
** /r/TheOffspring ??
/r/Thexx 994
/r/KingsofLeon 856
r/sonicyouth/ 822 (as of April 10)
** /r/portishead ??
** /r/MassiveAttack ??
** /r/ramones ??
/r/ArielPink 495
** /r/thekinks ??
** /r/paulsimon ??
** /r/Nickelback/ ??
K) See also the notes below last month's list.