They just separated their "hard rock/metal" category in two with some interesting results (probably some AI behind it), top hard rock bands:

1 Guns N' Roses
2 AC/DC
3 Aerosmith
4 Led Zeppelin
5 Bon Jovi
6 Kiss
7 Pearl Jam
8 Scorpions
9 Nickelback
10 Three Days Grace
11 Van Halen
12 Deep Purple
13 Mötley Crüe
14 Def Leppard
15 Breaking Benjamin
16 3 Doors Down
17 Shinedown
18 Seether
19 Ghost
20 Godsmack
21 Rob Zombie
22 Poison
23 Bullet For My Valentine
24 Whitesnake
25 Slash
26 Skid Row
27 Twisted Sister
28 Staind
29 Volbeat
30 Jon Bon Jovi
31 Hollywood Undead
32 Drowning Pool
33 Puddle Of Mudd
34 Killswitch Engage
35 Black Veil Brides
36 Chevelle
37 P.O.D.
38 A Perfect Circle
39 Quiet Riot
40 Motionless In White
41 Europe
42 Cinderella
43 I Prevail
44 Blue Öyster Cult
45 Trivium
46 Rainbow
47 Nazareth
48 Halestorm
49 Static-X
50 Velvet Revolver
51 Big Ass
52 Extremoduro
53 The Pretty Reckless
54 Thousand Foot Krutch
55 Rata Blanca
56 Flyleaf
57 All That Remains
58 Böhse Onkelz
59 Machine Head
60 Within Temptation
61 Warrant
62 White Zombie
63 Helloween
64 Of Mice & Men
65 Primus
66 Ratt
67 Ted Nugent
68 Amon Amarth
69 DragonForce
70 Alter Bridge
71 Testament
72 Architects
73 Sevendust
74 Our Last Night
75 Trapt
76 Serj Tankian
77 Apocalyptica
78 STARSET
79 Eskimo Callboy
80 Crossfade
81 Powerwolf
82 W.A.S.P.
83 Accept
84 Wolfmother
85 Alien Ant Farm
86 Sammy Hagar
87 Tesla
88 Great White
89 The HU
90 Sick Puppies
91 Slaughter to Prevail
92 Firehouse
93 White Lion
94 Spiritbox
95 Buckcherry
96 Memphis May Fire
97 We Came As Romans
98 Suicide Silence

99 Peyton Parrish
100 Red
101 Beartooth
102 Airbourne
103 Lorna Shore
104 Kreator
105 Uriah Heep
106 Suicidal Tendencies
107 The Amity Affliction
108 Soulfly
109 Jinjer
110 Powerman 5000
111 Night Ranger
112 Blind Guardian
113 Get Scared
114 Mayhem
115 Lacuna Coil
116 August Burns Red
117 Dokken
118 HELLYEAH
119 Fear Factory
120 The Warning
121 Stratovarius
122 Kabát
123 10 Years
124 The Devil Wears Prada
125 David Lee Roth
126 Mr. Big
127 Marea
128 Extreme
129 blessthefall
130 WWE
131 Corey Taylor
132 Slaughter
133 Bruce Dickinson
134 My Darkest Days
135 Cuca
136 Saxon
137 Coal Chamber
138 Skindred
139 UFO
140 Steve Vai
141 Pop Evil
142 Amaranthe
143 Black Stone Cherry
144 Eluveitie
145 Wage War
146 From Ashes to New
147 Clutch
148 Crazy Town
149 Damn Yankees
150 Animals As Leaders
151 Venom
152 Ministry
153 Obituary
154 Crown The Empire
155 The Plot In You
156 Nothing More
157 Steel Panther
158 Winger
159 Chelsea Grin
160 Nonpoint
161 Sodom
162 Miss May I
163 DevilDriver
164 Rhapsody
165 Triumph
166 Attila
167 Thy Art Is Murder
168 Lita Ford
169 Burzum
170 Ill Niño
171 I See Stars
172 Angra
173 Morbid Angel
174 Avantasia
175 Cold
176 Darkthrone
177 Alesana
178 Bathory
179 Avatar
180 Yngwie Malmsteen
181 Fit For A King
182 L.A. Guns
183 Eisbrecher
184 Sixx:A.M.
185 Buckethead
186 Metalocalypse: Dethklok
187 Carcass
188 Wind Rose
189 Deicide
190 Living Colour
191 SiM
192 KMFDM
193 Dayseeker
194 Katatonia
195 Otep
196 Dead by April
197 12 Stones
198 April Wine

199 Leo
200 Napalm Death

also Creed is a metal band apparently

>>127252018 (OP)
I get fucking depressed whenever you people post analytics on the most popular artists . Each new revelation is another sever blow to my faith in humanity

Who gives a shit

>>127252018 (OP)
>power metal is too gay to be called metal
based AI

>>127252018 (OP)
>old boomer puts on rock playlist to hear ac/dc
>instead gets burzum's atmospheric/ambient black metal tracks
what will their reaction be?

>give us your digital ID to verify your age
I don't think I will

>>127253925
usually it's the opposite, like a "Metal Classics" playlist and the 5th song is some lame hard rock ballad

>>127254126
cUcK

>>127254497
They're pushing the same shit in the EU, USA and AUS.

>>127254497
>>>/g/106106695

>>127252018 (OP)
>Guns N' Roses
That hair metal trash? Ugh