Top 100 Most Famous Bands of All Time - Legends and Current Groups

List of the Top 100 Most Famous Bands of All Time, mixing all-time legends with popular current groups across genres like rock, pop, alternative, hip-hop, and more.

🕶️ Classic Rock Legends

  1. The Beatles

  2. Queen

  3. The Rolling Stones

  4. Led Zeppelin

  5. Pink Floyd

  6. The Who

  7. Fleetwood Mac

  8. The Eagles

  9. AC/DC

  10. The Doors

  11. Aerosmith

  12. Van Halen

  13. Lynyrd Skynyrd

  14. Boston

  15. ZZ Top

  16. Cream

  17. Deep Purple

  18. Santana

  19. Yes

  20. Def Leppard

⚡ Hard Rock / Metal Giants

  1. Metallica

  2. Guns N’ Roses

  3. Bon Jovi

  4. Iron Maiden

  5. Black Sabbath

  6. Judas Priest

  7. Slipknot

  8. Korn

  9. System of a Down

  10. Pantera

🎤 Pop Groups / Boy Bands / Girl Groups

  1. The Jackson 5

  2. ABBA

  3. Bee Gees

  4. NSYNC

  5. Backstreet Boys

  6. Destiny’s Child

  7. Spice Girls

  8. One Direction

  9. BTS

  10. BLACKPINK

  11. Fifth Harmony

  12. Little Mix

  13. Boyz II Men

  14. New Kids on the Block

  15. Jonas Brothers

  16. Westlife

  17. Take That

  18. TLC

  19. En Vogue

  20. The Pussycat Dolls

🎵 Funk, R&B, and Soul Groups

  1. Earth, Wind & Fire

  2. The Temptations

  3. The Supremes

  4. Kool & the Gang

  5. Sly and the Family Stone

  6. Parliament-Funkadelic

  7. Commodores

  8. The Isley Brothers

  9. Gladys Knight & the Pips

  10. The O'Jays

🎤 Hip-Hop & Rap Groups

  1. Run-D.M.C.

  2. N.W.A

  3. Wu-Tang Clan

  4. Outkast

  5. A Tribe Called Quest

  6. Public Enemy

  7. The Fugees

  8. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

  9. Cypress Hill

  10. Beastie Boys

🎧 Modern Pop/Rock Bands (2000s–Now)

  1. Coldplay

  2. Imagine Dragons

  3. Maroon 5

  4. The 1975

  5. OneRepublic

  6. Linkin Park

  7. Fall Out Boy

  8. Green Day

  9. Paramore

  10. Evanescence

  11. 5 Seconds of Summer

  12. Panic! At The Disco

  13. My Chemical Romance

  14. Twenty One Pilots

  15. Måneskin

  16. Glass Animals

  17. AJR

  18. Bastille

  19. The Script

  20. DNCE

🌍 British Invasion & Big UK Bands

  1. Oasis

  2. Blur 

  3. Arctic Monkeys 

  4. Take That (UK pop royalty)

  5. Muse

  6. The Spice Girls 

  7. Bananarama

  8. McFly

  9. S Club 7

  10. The Wanted

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