How the music communities compare
A few giants dominate — r/Music, r/kpop and r/WeAreTheMusicMakers together account for 76% of the combined membership. r/Music is both the biggest and the busiest, with about 265 new posts a day. Per member, the liveliest is r/kpop: 162 posts a day from 3.9M members — a smaller crowd, but an engaged one. Among the communities we track weekly, r/indieheads grew fastest recently (+0.04%, +1.6K members since Oct 19). The oldest is r/Music, founded in 2008, and every community here is more than five years old — this is a long-established corner of Reddit.
The 8 biggest music subreddits
r/Music 38,597,499 members · ~265 posts/day · +6.3K since Oct 19 · since 2008Reddit’s #1 Music Community
r/kpop 3,896,653 members · ~162 posts/day · +1.4K since Oct 19 · since 2009K-Pop (Korean popular music) is a musical genre consisting of pop, dance, electropop, hiphop, rock, R&B, and electronic music originating in South Korea. In addition to music, K-Pop has grown into a popular subculture, resulting …
- Wr/WeAreTheMusicMakers ↗ 3,842,069 members · +608 since Oct 19 · since 2008
WATMM is a place for music makers to discuss the active process of making music.
r/indieheads 3,648,883 members · ~74 posts/day · +1.6K since Oct 19 · since 2013Reddit’s largest community for alternative, experimental, independent, and underground music.
r/popheads 3,192,542 members · ~54 posts/day · +909 since Oct 19 · since 2015The latest and greatest in pop music, all in one subreddit.
- Er/EDM ↗ 3,055,021 members · ~52 posts/day · +950 since Oct 19 · since 2008
Welcome to /r/EDM! Your prime source for talking about any kinds of electronic dance music and discovering the newest music in the scene
- Er/electronicmusic ↗ 2,661,264 members · +592 since Oct 19 · since 2008
A place to discuss everything electronic music related.
- Cr/classicalmusic ↗ 2,461,258 members · ~36 posts/day · since 2008
Whether you're a musician, a newbie, a composer or a listener, welcome. Please turn off your phone, and applaud between posts, not individual comments.
Choosing where to post
r/Music moves fastest, with about 265 new posts a day, so posts there get replies quickly but also slide off the front page within hours. Rule sets vary: of the communities we have rules for, r/Music lists 15, against 11 in r/indieheads, so a post that is fine in one can be removed in another.
Before posting, sort a subreddit by “Top” for the past month: it shows in a minute what that community rewards. Always read the rules in the sidebar first — each community is run by its own volunteer moderators. Our guide to searching Reddit explains how to dig through any of these communities, and the subreddit info tool gives you the stats of one we don't list.
Frequently asked questions
Which music subreddit has the most members?
r/Music is the largest, with 38,597,499 members, followed by r/kpop (3.9M) and r/WeAreTheMusicMakers (3.8M).
Where are the most new music posts?
By new posts per day, r/Music leads with about 265, ahead of r/kpop (162). Counts are averages over the last seven days.
How many music communities are on this list?
We list 8 active, safe-for-work music communities with at least 25,000 members each, 61.4M members in total (people can be in several). Reddit has many smaller ones too; our guide on searching Reddit shows how to find them.
What is the oldest music subreddit?
r/Music, created on Jan 25, 2008.
Are these music subreddits safe for work?
Yes. Every community on this page is public and not marked 18+ by Reddit, and we filter out communities whose name or description points to adult content.
Data: Reddit's public subreddit search and the Arctic Shift archive (Oct 30, 2026), growth from SubMouse's weekly snapshots. Member counts of communities outside our Top 1000 come from the archive and can lag a little. Not affiliated with Reddit.