Top 10 Worst Music Artists of All Time

I liked Love Yourself from 2016. Otherwise, he is a terrible artist.

While Baby Shark is still worse than everything he's made, all his music is definitely terrible. He lacks emotion and soul. His "songs" are just an excuse for him to be around women.

While Justice is better than nearly everything he's made, Peaches might have to be one of his worst songs. I don't like Peaches mainly because of Daniel Caesar and Giveon. I don't like Purpose because of its boring, synthesized sound. I don't like Changes because of the trap beats. I don't like Believe because it managed to be worse than My World 2.0, which was already terrible.

I know people like to call Baby the worst song ever recorded, but it's slightly underrated. People are forgetting about Boyfriend and Beauty and a Beat. Done.

This woman has got to be the worst female rapper ever! Can you even call her a rapper? What is she? She has to use auto-tune and sounds like a whiny little girl whenever she raps. She has got to be the worst female rapper I have ever heard. At least with all these other rappers on this list, you can call them rappers. But Nicki Minaj is so horrible that she can't even be classified as a rapper.

Even Lil Wayne, you can call him the worst, but Nicki Minaj? What is she? She can't even be called a rapper! She's lower than the worst. What is this woman? I hope she never comes back. I hope she never tries to come back. And I certainly hope that all these awful, fake, phony mainstream rappers (that includes Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus) never come back. I hope they all end up like Bubba Sparxxx, who left and never returned.

Music - Awful, all of their songs have forgettable beats and horrible singing or rapping.

Lyrics - The worst thing about the band. All of their songs are filled with immature lyrics about sex, and that's it.

Appearance - I know this doesn't really matter, but they look hideous. They look like two emos who got sprayed with rainbow-colored spray paint.

End of rant.

I think we already know enough about these homeless emo degenerates. Their music is as awful as their hair. Their production sounds like 8-bit video games, and not in a good way. Also, their vocals sound like every emo person.

Dolly Parton must be really disappointed. I saw this video where Miley Cyrus was singing Jolene with Dolly Parton. She sang pretty well. I honestly thought that Miley Cyrus couldn't sing. When I compared that video to one of her recent live performances, it almost looks as if it's a completely different person.

I have no idea whether she is in her right mind or whether she is drunk when she is performing, but I just don't understand why some people like her. She always uses autotune, and her songs are horrible! Plus, she gets drunk at concerts and acts like a mad person.

They got better year by year, but they always made horrible music. Even Zayn, one of the members of this band, always hated it.

What Makes You Beautiful, despite being their first hit, was their worst hit. While the melody is quite good, the vocals are nauseating, and the guitar/synth should burn in dumpster hell.

Worst of all, the lyrics are quite misogynistic and creepy. I don't ever want to hear this song again, but I might have to because it's on the radio every 1-2 days.

I live in Sydney, Australia, which is, believe it or not, not actually the capital of Australia. Sydney is generally a cool place, right? We host many music festivals, my personal favourite being Soundwave, an epic metal festival on its 9th year running.

A few years ago, a shop dedicated entirely to One (No) Direction opened up. I was there the day it opened, and was so tempted to run down the 500-metre long lines of screaming fan girls with my car in an effort to save them from this corruption. I actually pulled up at the end of one of the THREE queues, yes, there were three, and gunned my engine. Thankfully, no one noticed me as they couldn't hear my engine over the screams of the girls.

Now, I drive an old Nissan Skyline. I have a turbocharged V6. That is not a quiet engine. I have been pulled over for noise pollution twice. There was that much hype over a single store.

To sum this up, I hate One Direction so much that I would murder their fan base to save them from the horror that they call music. To say what they put out is music is to say that Michael Bay's TMNT movie is actually decent. If I ever meet One Direction in person, I will take a chainsaw to them. Period.

I bet this artist gets all the ladies with such a dashing appearance. His music makes scratching the walls sound like Mozart.

He takes everything bad about Tyga and mixes it with screaming and rainbows. Honestly, this guy makes me cringe so hard my face burns.

His "song" "Gummo" makes "Baby" by Justin Bieber look like "Bohemian Rhapsody." And that picture... pass me the barf bag, please.

Can't even call him an artist because he is such a massive sellout, like every other mainstream hip-hop artist. He is ruining the American youth because he raps about drugs, hoes, sex, and violence and makes kids think the way he lives in his music videos is cool.

I know from firsthand experience that teens want to be like their favorite rappers, so they start smoking, drinking, fighting, and having sex, ruining their potential in life.

Lil Wayne is a show of what our country has come to nowadays. What happened to the original genres: rock and country? Not to mention that he is setting one of the worst examples for teens today. Personally, I am a teen, and I can't stand today's music.

I like classic and newer rock, and some country. In my school, people cuss, they smoke, they blare rap music, and it gets annoying.

Oh phooey. Really, guys? They're a Disney band, not a legitimate pop-rock band!

Nobody is even into these guys anymore. They all split up.

The Jonas Brothers produce the most boring and bland music in the industry. Their songs give me stage five headaches. So boring and repetitive, they really just fit into the definition of meaningless pop music.

While a huge portion of artists are misogynistic and creepy, no one will be as bad as him.

First of all, he beats up women just for being women. He beat up Rihanna? No. While Rihanna's music isn't good, thanks to the highly synthetic and auto-tuned production, her vocals at least stand out. While her music is bad, at least her vocals are amazing and beautiful.

At least the auto-tune in Live Your Life worked, thanks to T.I. While some of her music is quite disastrous, like Diamonds, being beaten up horribly shouldn't be her consequence for making that song, because at least she tried.

Another thing I hate about him is that he's still trying to stay relevant. He's still getting nominated for Grammys sometimes, and people are still giving him all these passes. What a shame.

This woman is my second least favorite music artist, behind Crazy Frog. Her original self, Lauren Tate, was not that bad. She was just a woman singing about normal stuff.

But in 2020, she changed into her alter ego, Delilah Bon, who makes some of the worst music I've ever heard. She is also a horrible role model. She sounds like a dying horse screaming while missing the point about female empowerment, coming across as a cringeworthy celebrity. Her production is clunky and bland, and her so-called anthems are unbearable. She is absolutely talentless and really should be in the top five worst artists.

I cannot believe she is gaining popularity in 2025. Seriously? Please no! I wish I could understand what made her change in 2020. I hope she either goes back to normal this year or stops making music altogether.

LMFAO are nothing but talentless, perverted hunks of garbage. Their songs have absolutely no reason to be known (nor did they ever deserve to be number one in America!) And they just try too hard, especially with Sexy and I Know It.

They need to be gone from the media, and gone from the earth. FOR GOOD.

Not to mention that one of their songs, Party Rock Anthem, has a lyric that is a great kick in the face to Led Zeppelin. Now that's sinful.

OK, I'll be honest, some of their music is actually OK, but the main grudge is their music videos. They are usually twice as long as the songs, and the songs don't usually start until over three minutes after the video begins. Trying to create a whole new genre called "party rock" doesn't really sit well with me because it isn't rock, you know?

There is no need for this useless group. They ruined my childhood a bit!

My parents let me listen to explicit music as young as age six. Well, SCREW KIDZ BOP! We don't need them. They are so annoying, and they change lyrics. UGH, I HATE THAT.

Kidz Bop sucks so badly. They need to go away, and those spoiled kids should form another band on their own when they get older.

Why the hell do people think having kids with no singing talent cover terrible music is going to make hits? It just makes me hate the song even more and the kid who sang it. I remember hearing this, and I wanted to push whoever thought of this garbage off a cliff. Honestly, I'm not a fan of mainstream pop, but whoever thought of this does not deserve to possess money.

I can't believe that spoiled brats will get their parents to get them into this. Don't get me started on the name of this. Who the hell thought Kidz Bop was good? It makes me cringe. In the least offensive way possible to those younger generations who like this, don't look up to anyone that goes into this. If you do, you're going to end up on the streets digging through trash cans. I'm pretty sure I can even write a novel about how much I hate Kidz Bop.

Okay, now don't get the wrong idea, but they aren't the WORST band. I don't like them. They're terrible, but at least they play instruments and don't use auto-tune. Their songs all sound the same, and they are far from good, but not the worst.

Eh. Nickelback is pretty bland. Silver Side Up was their only good album, and even then, it only had one good song.

I like Burn It to the Ground and How You Remind Me, but other songs are too similar to hear, and some songs are so bad, like Something in Your Mouth.

This isn't real music. He must be the least talented musician ever. It's sad that people that play real instruments aren't getting any support, and this crap is. All he does is twist a few knobs, push a few buttons, and wave his arms around.

The music doesn't even sound good. It sounds like two transformers having sex. This is the most pathetic excuse for music. It's sad that he gets credit, and talented bands like Yes or ELP get no credit at all. I can't believe I made a comparison with that.

Skrillex is my most hated artist of all time. I despise Skrillex more than Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus, which is saying something, as he has ruined electronic music in the eyes of many.

Skrillex is far from a musical genius, and calling him a "musician" is an insult to actual musicians who put effort into their music. He is a 2010s hipster who discovered dubstep and made it into a cultural phenomenon. Skrillex is to electronic music what Kenny G is to jazz or what Starbucks is to coffee: watered-down garbage for the masses that gives others in the field a bad name. The worst part is that Skrillex still has a career, as he seems to do well on YouTube and Spotify, even though dubstep lost its mainstream popularity in the mid-to-late 2010s, thankfully.

If you want some great electronic music to listen to, then there is plenty. Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Isao Tomita, and Tangerine Dream are among them. I would argue that they are musical geniuses on par with Chopin or Miles Davis.

The only remarkable thing she's ever done is create the most toxic fan base in history, almost destroy the planet, and make everyone's ears bleed. Well done, Taylor!

I will never understand why you would listen to her when you could listen to The Beatles or Queen. Like, come on, people?!

I honestly liked her songs like Love Story and Enchanted. However, now she is singing only breakup songs. I don't know why this girl behaves as if every boy on earth has dumped her. In every song, she curses her ex and says that it's over now.

Then she releases another single, and you will realize that it's not over. The breakup story continues with another new ex.

She used to drug and rob multiple men as a stripper. Her entire career is based on controversy, and all her fans are just some teenage boys who only listen to her because they think she's hot. Literally, no one listens to her music for the lyrics, rhymes, or even the actual sound of them. It's oversexualized garbage that has no redeeming qualities or reason to exist.

It's painfully obvious that she has every song written for her because her delivery has remained awful for five years. She is a dollar-store version of Nicki Minaj.

She's pretty, and her voice is good, but her song "Dear Future Husband" essentially conveys this message: "If you want me, you need to sacrifice yourself for me, adore me, and give me all I want, because otherwise, it means you don't love me." That one song annoyed me.

She is horrible. All of her fans say, "She's trying to make girls feel good about their bodies," well, apparently you missed the part in "All About That Bass" when she calls skinny people "silicone Barbie dolls."

Having the same repeated, completely idiotic lyrics doesn't count as a song. How she became famous, I will never know. I'm so sick and tired of all these terrible pop artists becoming famous.

1. She made an offensive joke about Asian stereotypes, and her "apology" was fake and staged.
2. She made a terrible song called "DDLG," which promotes ageplay in a way that resembles promoting pedophilia. It almost seems as if that's what she's disguising it as.
3. Her voice is very grating. She sounds like a 10-year-old girl who just learned how to swear and is trying to rap. It comes off as obnoxious. She also sounds similar to Vicky from The Fairly OddParents and Trina Riffin from Grojband.
4. She doesn't have any wholesome or authentic moments as a person and is only focused on being sexual.
5. Her stage name is laughable and annoying to even say out loud.
6. Her single covers are ugly, annoying, and disturbing.
7. She doesn't seem to understand when to "shut up."
8. She ruined "3 Musketeers."
9. She is a ripoff of Ashnikko and Rico Nasty combined.
10. Her fanbase is extremely toxic.

It's not really a surprise that Creed is here at the top. This band was even sued by fans after an awful show in Chicago.

They have a great guitar player. That's about it.

The fact that this man (who literally thinks England is a city) is from my home country depresses me quite a bit.

How does he count as a music artist?

The fact that Taylor Swift and One Direction are both ranked higher than these guys lowers my level of faith in music listeners from -1 to -2. (Remember, I already lowered it from 0 to -1 after 'That's What I Like' won Song of the Year).

Anyway, I have heard 'No Type,' 'No Flex Zone,' 'Over Here,' and part of 'My X,' and all of them except 'No Type' are basically the music of the devil.

Rae Sremmurd is basically just kids who brag about their lives. I mean, look at their song No Type's hook. This song has no reason to exist at all! They are just disgraces to the music community!

She can't even rap. Listen to 'Fancy.' Not one lyric rhymes, and she's just some ghetto thug who only got famous because of that song with Ariana Grande. She wasn't popular before 'Problem' and 'Fancy.' She doesn't have one popular song without someone featured in it. She makes Nicki Minaj look like a goddess.

Black Widow was literally the only okay song she made. Heck, it was the ONLY song she made. The rest are simply sounds that surprisingly wandered over to popularity!

Say what you want about Cardi B, but at least she has a good rhythm and can flow well, and she actually raps in sentences, not single words. Iggy Azalea has none of those things. She can't even form a sentence. Especially in 'Kream,' where the chorus is literally, "Ass...cash, bags..."

I don't know why Rolling Stone is praising Kanye for his latest release. Then again, Rolling Stone is giving praise to a lot of "artists" who can't sing, play an instrument, dance, or even perform live. This summer, I'll be sure to spend my hard-earned cash on a ticket only to watch someone lip-sync to the album I already own.

Oh wait, I wouldn't ever buy an album by one of these so-called "artists". In fact, I wouldn't download any of it either.

To be honest, he's not really anything special. He's always so self-centered, interrupting Taylor Swift and Beck at the Grammy awards, saying George Bush doesn't care about black people, and always bragging about "I'm the greatest rapper alive! I am the next Jim Morrison! I am the next Kurt Cobain! I am a genius!" So what? It should be about the music, and his music sucks!

When producers sign rap artists like this dude, it kind of makes me wonder what kind of drugs they're on.

I shouldn't even be talking about this guy because he's so irrelevant now. He still sucks.

Tyga is ranked lower than Lady Gaga and Ke$ha and Taylor Swift? Guys, please get taste.

Hey, I'm not a fan of Justin Bieber, but at least he sounds a little decent without auto-tune. But Britney Spears... she sounds so bad. She started this whole auto-tune thing and still gets herself the title "Princess of Pop." Just listen to "Pretty Girls." I swear I've never hated a song so much in my life.

She ruined everything Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Green Day, and Weezer did to bring music back to its pure state with her candy pop that only 10-year-old girls listen to! I can't believe Bono and Kurt made this list! They write MUSIC! That's something Britney Spears doesn't know about and NEVER WILL!