Biggest/best current band in the world?
 

Who is it? From 2000 onward, mid 90's at a push.

I know someone will say it's subjective but I mean for example, in past generations you had plenty of choice and big hitters, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Queen, The Who, Led Zep and so on, but today?

I think there are plenty of good bands, but where are the bands who can come close to the icons of the past?

Arctic Monkeys, Muse, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, QOTSA, Kings Of Leon, McBusted?

Where are the modern day Led Zeps and Rolling Stones?

I think I said it in the past QOTSA are one of the best rock bands in the last 14 years so u could make a case for them I don't know what kinda crowd they Pull in tho ..???? in terms of numbers not has much has they like thats 4 sure


I throw some names in the hat

Korn

Incubus... even tho there on hiatus

jack white and all his bands

and def Slipknot

That's a tough question to answer but I'll contribute by saying Tame Impala, Young The Giant, Muse, The Offspring, of course Green Day. And I'm a girl who loves all music by any great band.

Yeah, basically what I'm trying to get at is who is the current band that is taking the world by storm the way the icons mentioned did.

Personally don't think Slipknot come close to Black Sabbath.

Agreed, although Sabbath didn't come close to Zep or the Stones or the Who or some others. They would've opened for Zeppelin. But they are VASTLY bigger than Slipknot.

The first band that would come to my mind would be Radiohead, although tbh I haven't really been paying attention in this decade.

Tbh I actually prefer Sabbath but from what I've heard other people say who were around at that time Led Zep probably were 'bigger'.

I would go for them too tbh. Can't really think of anyone else.

Coldplay? :o:

I didn't wanna mention them because I loathe those guys with every particle of my soul. But, unfortunately, yeah, they're that big. Sadly U2 probably would be too, but at least I like their earliest work, esp the War album.

Anything from The Joshua Tree on can die in a fire

in terms of sales and ticket butts in seats slipknot is out doing black Sabbath past and present jus saying and they haven't even dropped a album in like 3 years

Black Sabbath sold well over 70m worldwide, even more if you include Ozzy's solo stuff.

Slipknot have sold 20m.

Also didn't Sabbath just sell out their world tour? I know tickets here are about 60 quid, about 120 dollars, so not cheap either.

Nowadays there is no such thing as Beatles or Zep were. Nowadays everone's music tastes are much more divided thanks to internet.
So there are probably good bands out there but none of them can grow as big as the biggest bands once were.
You can say that on some degree Beatles symbolizes the sixties and Zep (like it or not) symbolized the nineties... But then, who symbolized the eighties or the nighties or 00's.