Spotify has officially unveiled their Wrapped feature for 2021 and both fans and artists have been flooding social media with their music listening and streaming stats. It’s always fun reflecting on the last year and we’ve compiled 50 rock and metal artists who have shared their Wrapped stats.
For artists, Spotify recaps the number of total streams, hours listened, number of listeners and the total number of countries in which fans listened to the respective band in. Some of these numbers can be difficult to quantify — the number of streams for a pop artist is obviously going to be radically different than even rock and metal’s biggest bands.
Still, there are some stats that leap right off the infographic — such as Five Finger Death Punch netting 582 million streams, which was almost 245 million more streams than the legendary Motley Crue, whose popularity is still sky-high.
Since all of these bands are shamelessly plugging themselves, don’t mind us if we tout that Loudwire has a bunch of rock and metal playlists on Spotify — Early Thrash, Ultimate Doom Metal, 2000s Metalcore, Ultimate Grunge, Weekly Wire which is refreshed each week with 50 new songs and a lot more. Give us a follow!
2021 SPOTIFY WRAPPED STATS FOR 50 ROCK + METAL ARTISTS
Five Finger Death Punch
Motley Crue
Stone Sour
311
Mammoth WVH
Tremonti
Spiritbox (see second slide)
Dirty Honey
The Pretty Reckless
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Papa Roach
Joyous Wolf
Mike Portnoy… err, wait a minute…
Dream Theater
John Petrucci
While She Sleeps
Every Time I Die
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Asking Alexandria
Bad Wolves
Polaris
Cradle of Filth
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Saint Asonia
Filter
The Black Crowes
Lorna Shore
Of Mice & Men
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Fire From the Gods
Wage War
Escape the Fate
Thy Art Is Murder
Powerman 5000
Archspire
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Periphery
Set It Off
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Amaranthe
Nonpoint
Richie Kotzen
Sonata Arctica
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Between the Buried and Me
Life of Agony
Vended
Brand of Sacrifice (see second slide)
Shadow of Intent
Kataklysm
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Ded
Havok
Airbourne
The Acacia Strain
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