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Glam Metal bands you should check out!

Welcome to my awesome blog, I'm enjoying glam metal (again) so I decided to make a list!
I sectioned everything into how popular or obscure they are! I hope you check out some of these bands
For popularity I just went off of how many monthly listeners the band has currently.
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The song playing in the background is "Play With Me" by Extreme.
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If there's any bands YOU think I should check out, or maybe forgot, tell me! :-)


Bands above one million monthly listeners:

  • Bon Jovi (30M)
  • Guns N' Roses (28.7M)
  • KISS (14.5M)
  • Mötley Crüe (7.8M)
  • Def Leppard (6.9M funny number)
  • Europe (6.3M)
  • Extreme (5.2M Their first and second album were pretty much glam metal.)
  • Whitesnake (4.6M)
  • Skid Row (4.2M)
  • Twisted Sister (3.9M almost 4M come on...)
  • Poison (3.8M)
  • Quiet Riot (2.4M)
  • Warrant (1.6M)
  • Ratt (1.6M)
  • Firehouse (1.3M)
  • Cinderella (1.3M)
Bands above one hundred thousand listeners:
  • White Lion (924K)
  • Dokken (846K)
  • Winger (673K)
  • Great White (579K)
  • Steel Panther (465K)
  • Autograph (352K)
  • L.A. Guns (292K)
  • Kix (278K)
  • Slaughter (270K)
  • Faster Pussycat (231K)
  • Stryper (217K)
  • Krokus (211K only "Head Hunter" and "The Blitz" classify as glam though)
  • Kingdom Come (208K)
  • Y&T (184K)
  • Danger Danger (171K)
  • Vixen (167K)
  • Helix (163K)
  • Hanoi Rocks (139K)
  • XYZ (115K)
Bands above one thousand listeners:

  • Bulletboys (69K hell yeah)
  • Lynch Mob (67K)
  • Vandenberg (56K)
  • TNT (55K)
  • Britny Fox (49K)
  • Vinnie Vincent Invasion (48K)
  • Stage Dolls (47K)
  • Trixter (45K)
  • Enuff Z'Nuff (44K)
  • Dangerous Toys (39K)
  • Pretty Boy Floyd (37K)
  • Lillian Axe (36K)
  • Killer Dwarfs (28K)
  • Bang Tango (28K)
  • Black N' Blue (26K)
  • Sleeze Beez (23K)
  • Babylon A.D. (23K)
  • Giuffria (22K)
  • Shotgun Messiah (22K)
  • Jetboy (20K)
  • Love/Hate (19K)
  • Q5 (18K)
  • Rough Cutt (15K)
  • Vain (14K)
  • Tuff (11K)
  • Holy Soldier (10K)
  • Hollywood Rose (10K)
  • Cat In Boots (10K)
  • Madam X (8.4K)
  • Roxx Gang (6.8K)
  • Roxy Blue (4.9K)
  • Hericane Alice (3.8K)
  • Cold Sweat (2.6K)
  • Electric Angels (1.8K)
  • Wrathchild (1.5K)
  • Rail (1.1K)

Bands that are below one thousand (how?!):
  • Wild Boyz (241)
  • Lostboys (186)

Here's four bands that aren't on spotify! Check them out!



Some bands I think are more hard rock but are still in the glam metal environment:

  • I think Guns N' Roses belongs more into hard rock, were they in the hair metal environment? Hell yeah! They literally opened for Mötley Crüe in 87'.  (I kind of only added them because of Appetite For Destruction)

  • I thought about putting Led Zeppelin in this list but decided against it, they were one of the bands that influenced the glam metal scene but I don't think they were actually ever considered glam metal.

  • I think the same could be said for Van Halen (like Led Zeppelin), they made the way for glam metal and were one of the bands that were quite literally essential to the creation of the genre. They do pre-date glam metal but I still wanted to include them here since without VH I feel like the glam metal scene wouldn't have existed, or wouldn't have gotten as big as it did in the 80s.

There's also bands like:
Krokus and Extreme are two bands I put in this list that ''used'' to have the glam metal sound, but I'd like to make it clear that it's mostly their earlier stuff that classify as glam metal.


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AxelSector

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THAT MUST'VE TAKEN A WHILE! SRSLY THOUGH ITS GLORIOUS! DEF WILL GIVE THEM A LISTEN!
AWESOME AS ALWAYS < 3


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It took an two hours... but hey! It was all worth it! :-)

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Ettubrutus

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W, I've been looking for glam metal bands for weeks now thank you


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No problem! :-)

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