Metal Bands Compared by Spotify Monthly Listeners, December 2020 Rankings
Every month we take a look at Spotify’s ‘monthly listeners’ counts for several hundred metal bands and compare them side by side to create a comparison for relative popularity at any given moment. For more on why we’re doing this column and the methodology behind it, read this.
December’s numbers are in, and they show a lot more dips than gains for reasons that aren’t clear (a dearth of new releases, perhaps, or a decrease in commute time brought on by a new wave of pandemic lockdowns). That said, there were some success stories, too. Some of the biggest gainers in the metal world over the past month included:
- Within Temptation (20.73%)
- Architects (37.61%)
- Fever 333 (69.99%)
- August Burns Red (20.94%)
- Clutch (19.70%)
- Soilwork (10.59%)
- Avatar (13.56%)
- Thy Art is Murder (36.12%)
- Chelsea Grin (34.43%)
- Body Count (20.18%)
- Paradise Lost (10.37%)
- Katatonia (29.22%)
- Plini (12.80%)
- Rhapsody of Fire (45.74%)
- Myrkur (22.71%)
- Within the Ruins (62.03%)
- Doro (25.57%)
- Ihsahn (11.69%)
- Stitched Up Heart (10.98%)
- Allegaeon (17.39%)
- Wednesday 13 (42.79%)
- Eyehategod (22.52%)
- Moon Tooth (21.04%)
- Author & Punisher (15.26%)
- Cave In (10.09%)
- Exhumed (10.95%)
- Beneath the Massacre (14.09%)
These rankings, it must be stated, are not comprehensive: these are bands we chose manually, and it is absolutely the case that many bands aren’t included (please email [email protected] if you’d like to see them added next month). For that reason, we haven’t numbered these rankings: to do so would disingenuously give the appearance this is a comprehensive list, which it is not.
You can view the most recent chart numbers, along with the entire history of these charts, in the embed below or here.
