Most googled rock artists/bands between 2004-2019

I came across this interesting video while I was browsing the Linkin Park sub-reddit a few nights ago and thought it would be worth sharing. It's a video someone made of the top Google searches of rock artists/bands between 2004 to 2019. What's particularly interesting about it though is that the shift in rankings reflect the trends that were going on in music at the time and you can easily spot them in the video, such as Green Day suddenly rising to the top shortly after American Idiot was released in Late 2004 and the transition from pop-punk to emo around 2005/06. The video itself is a pretty good insight into the changing popularity of rock music over those 15 years. 

As a huge rock fan myself, these results look pretty accurate just based on my own personal experiences and recollections of rock during those years, but some of those results do intrigue me. Why did Slipknot rank so highly during 2004 and 2005? Maybe I was still a bit too young at the time, but I honestly don't remember them ever being popular during those years. In fact, I've got no memory at all of Slipknot being popular, because their peak was undoubtedly around 1999/2000 and nu-metal as a genre was basically on it's last legs by 2004. If anything, I really would have expected Korn to have outperformed them on the Google search results; I can even remember "Word Up" being a minor hit when I was 5. Don't remember anything by Slipknot from then. 

There's also a pretty noticeable difference in the type of search results that were made before and after 2008. Between 2004-07, the most googled rock bands were typically ones who were culturally relevant at that time. You did have some "classic rock" bands like The Beatles, Led Zepplin etc. taking up a few of the positions, but to counteract them, then-current rock bands My Chemical Romance, Simple Plan, The Killers etc were performing well in the search results as well. Compare the search results from 2004-07 with the ones from 2008 onwards and it becomes clear that the rate of culturally relevant rock bands really starts to decline by the end of the 2000s.