Ever since 2010 I’ve kept track of the music I listen to each month. It’s fascinating to see how some bands stay with me over the years whilst others have their moment on my stereo before vanishing from my mind… well, until years later when I check out to see what I was listening to way back when in any case!

Anyway, I ran a Top 50 (which turned in to a Top 100) bands of the month chart on various social media platforms recording my listening habits for posterity and to share my earworms of the month. I listen to a lot of music when working, and also when relaxing. My tastes are fairly broad and I love discovering new bands, as well as new sounds and genres.

February saw 7 new entries hit my Top 100 for the first time. Leading that pack, and getting into this months Top 6 banner, was Puscifer at 6 – who share lead singer Maynard James Keenan with another of my favourite bands… Tool. Other new entries were Dear Rouge (29), Elsiane (53), Willie Nelson (77), ZOMBIE HYPERDRIVE (95), KARP (96), and Vent 414 (99).

There were also 26 re-entries this month, with Nine Inch Nails returning straight in at 3. Some of the other re-enteries included Taylor Swift (12), Ghost (24), Ritualz (25), Gunship (30), Zeal & Ardor (45), Machines of Loving Grace (58), Aleister Crowley (93), Killing Joke (94), and Archive (100).

Several of Februarys bands have appeared courtesy of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die book group I’m now in, where one random album is selected from the book each day for us to listen to and review. Some have been great – either new finds or beloved classics – others less so. But it has meant that a few of those artists have started appearing in the monthly Top 100s.

Anyway, here’s my Top 100 for February 2026…

Fields of the Nephilim – For Her Light

Top 100 Bands – February 2026

Position	Last Month	Band
1	1	Fields of the Nephilim
2	3	Kaelan Mikla
3	RE	Nine Inch Nails
4	17	Heartworms
5	11	Chvrches
6	NE	Puscifer
7	10	Paris Paloma
8	5	Mind.In.A.Box
9	79	The Mission
10	9	Conjure One

Puscifer – The Remedy

11	14	The Sisters of Mercy
12	RE	Taylor Swift
13	7	Bjork
14	8	Metric
15	58	Sleep Token
16	13	Somewhere off Jazz Street
17	86	The Pentangle
18	20	Toni Castells
19	87	Olivia Dean
20	18	Air

Taylor Swift – Opalite

21	49	London Grammar
22	15	Cocteau Twins
23	47	Delerium
24	RE	Ghost
25	RE	Ritualz
26	23	Covenant
27	48	KMFDM
28	22	A.A. Williams
29	NE	Dear Rouge
30	RE	Gunship

Gunship – Ghost

31	26	Spiritualized
32	24	The Velvet Underground
33	28	Type O Negative
34	6	Pixies
35	25	Queen
36	61	The Black Dog
37	35	Tori Amos
38	RE	Depeche Mode
39	43	Meg Myers
40	27	Suede

Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence

41	37	Fat Dog
42	36	CASHFORGOLD
43	38	Joni Mitchell
44	92	New Model Army
45	RE	Zeal & Ardor
46	40	Djo
47	30	Sprints
48	RE	In the Nursery
49	46	Bruce Springsteen
50	RE	Goldfrapp

Zeal & Ardor – Devil is Fine

51	RE	White Ring
52	RE	AFI
53	54	All India Radio
54	RE	Dead Can Dance
55	56	Dog Race
56	52	Funker Vogt
57	RE	Green Day
58	RE	Machines of Loving Grace
59	44	Murcof
60	53	Princess Goes
61	RE	YUNGBLUD
62	55	Bohren & der Club of Gore
63	NE	Elsiane
64	RE	Marillion
65	78	Portishead
66	41	Florence & The Machine
67	32	Midnight Smoke
68	60	Nick Drake
69	RE	Timecop1983
70	89	Enigma
71	2	Holly Humberstone
72	68	NedDad
73	70	So Below
74	RE	The Midnight
75	65	:Of the Wand & the Moon:

Green Day – American Idiot

76	RE	Ethel Cain
77	NE	Willie Nelson
78	73	George Harrison
79	RE	In Strict Confidence
80	75	Moloko
81	76	Pavement
82	81	Cabaret Voltaire
83	74	HEALTH
84	RE	MS MR
85	84	:Wumpscut:
86	80	Aerosmith
87	RE	GoldCry
88	59	Ladytron
89	82	Morcheeba
90	83	Radiohead
91	85	Shadowdream
92	RE	Stabbing Westward
93	RE	Aleister Crowley
94	RE	Killing Joke
95	NE	ZOMBIE HYPERDRIVE
96	NE	KARP
97	67	Massive Attack
98	100	The Devil & The Universe
99	NE	Vent 414
100	RE	Archive

Vent 414 – Fixer