What is Alternative Music?

The Top 20 artists tagged “alternative” on Last FM

1		Radiohead	8,993
2		Muse	5,760
3		Coldplay	4,997
4		Placebo	4,648
5		Red Hot Chili Peppers	4,610
6		Björk	3,780
7		Beck	3,700
8		The Smashing Pumpkins	3,663
9		The White Stripes	3,543
10		Nirvana	3,391
11		Gorillaz	3,351
12		The Killers	3,185
13		The Cure	3,147
14		System of a Down	3,079
15		Foo Fighters	2,892
16		Incubus	2,857
17		Linkin Park	2,818
18		Franz Ferdinand	2,740
19		Pixies	2,665
20		Death Cab for Cutie	2,456

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