We’ve got a younger band, Twenty One Pilots, who’ve proven you don’t need guitar to rock the suburbs (though naturally, a little piano helps) and an older band, Coldplay, who’ve stayed huge by parlaying their long-held flair for the dramatic into achingly earnest EDM bombast. This means guitar takes a backseat to synths, keys, and beats, if it’s even used at all. In 2017, a rock band’s best bet to grab the streaming generation is to, well, not really sound like a rock band. Twenty One Pilots And Coldplay Rule Streaming Because Imagine Dragons were later added to the initial Top 20 lists, both now include 21 artists. Note: Following the publication of this story, a rep for Spotify contacted Billboard to note that an error in their list incorrectly left Imagine Dragons off their rankings. Here are the freshly-revealed charts, followed by our analysis.
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