This by no means is an official indication of popularity…that’s something that can only roughly be estimated. This looks at number of last.fm listeners around the world.

– Radiohead: 2,872,982
– Bob Dylan: 1,511,558
– Pixies: 1,336,206
– Arctic Monkeys: 1,717,157
– Editors: 1,062,559
– Sonic Youth: 1,000,586
– Spoon: 924,767
– Morrissey: 746,011
– Animal Collective: 725,900
– Hot Hot Heat: 714,748
– Elvis Costello: 633,258
– Built to Spill: 538,664
– Dinosaur Jr: 459,611
– The Walkmen: 451,744
– Head Automatica: 299,834
– Deerhunter: 299,689
– Psychedelic Furs: 295,214
– Paul Weller: 294,751
– Louis XIV: 273,512
– The Rifles: 239,431
– Meat Puppets: 224,973
– The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: 215,931
– Sunset Rubdown: 206,829
– Girls: 202,386
– Black Lips: 190,777
– No Age: 152,179
– Mission of Burma: 152,216
– High Places: 117,942
– Handsome Furs: 102,755
– Wavves: 102,375
– Cymbals Eat Guitars: 94,518
– Real Estate: 81,680
– Jay Reatard: 80,453
– Here We Go Magic: 70,184
– The Feelies: 63,382
– The Warlocks: 63,041
– Harlem: 53,371
– Trevor Hall: 47,675
– Kurt Vile: 44,522
– King Khan and the Shrines: 42,623
– Dum Dum Girls: 42,483
– Strange Boys: 30,882
– King Khan & BBQ Show: 29,590
– The War on Drugs: 19,583
– Mark Sultan: 11,798
– Nobunny: 6,413
– Hunx and His Punx: 5,185
– Box Elders: 4,334
– TV Smith: 4,106
– Uninhabitable Mansions: 3,334
– The Dig: 2,561
– Faces on Film: 1,080
– The Big Big Bucks: 598
– The Maine Coons: 67