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indieheads: Reddit's Indie Music Community. Reddit’s largest community for alternative, experimental, independent, and underground music. Founded 2013 · 3.6M members

3.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 17K upvotes, which works out to 5 per 1,000 members.

5peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.6Mmembers
17Kbest post
3.4Kmost comments
569posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

58% 23% 10% 9%
Link 58% Video 23% Image 10% Text 9% Gallery 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Upvote 4 Visibility 11 [ANNIVERSARY] 9 Serious 3 Content Warning 2 AMA is Over, thanks Andrew and Ben! 1 this is the one 1 this is it 1 AMA is Over, thanks Ed! 1 AMA is over, thanks Ellie! 1 AMA is Over, Thanks King Gizz! 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Brian Wilson has passed away per an announcement on his facebook

↑ 17K 💬 616 image 2025

Hey, it's MGMT, Ask Us Anything here now (12pm PST/3pm EST)!

↑ 13.1K 💬 1.9K image 2020

Bandcamp Bans AI Music

↑ 10.7K 💬 234 link 2026

[FRESH ALBUM] Tame Impala - The Slow Rush

↑ 10.1K 💬 1.3K link 2020

Pitchfork has given the new Fiona Apple album a solid 10, the site’s first in 10 years

↑ 9.6K 💬 1.4K image 2020

Update: Jack White made good on his lawsuit threat to Donald Trump and his campaign

↑ 9.5K 💬 287 gallery 2024

Spotify agents are not answering ICE questions and are ending the conversation.

↑ 8.7K 💬 595 image 2025

Jack White reflects on the election: "Americans chose a known, obvious fascist. It's absolutely dumbfounding that this con man succeeded in pulling t…

↑ 7.9K 💬 412 link 2024

[MOD POST] We are officially banning AI music from being posted on r/indieheads

↑ 7.7K 💬 285 text 2025

Came across my neighbor’s halloween decorations today…

↑ 7.7K 💬 54 gallery 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/indieheads, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/indieheads?
r/indieheads ("indieheads: Reddit's Indie Music Community") describes itself this way: Reddit’s largest community for alternative, experimental, independent, and underground music. It was founded in 2013 and has 3.6M members.
How many members does r/indieheads have?
r/indieheads has about 3.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 569 of its posts; the biggest reached 17K upvotes, which is 5 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/indieheads?
"Brian Wilson has passed away per an announcement on his facebook" reached 17K upvotes and 616 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/indieheads.
What subreddits are similar to r/indieheads?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile, r/blackcats, r/awfuleverything.
What kind of posts do best on r/indieheads?
Of the posts we hold, 58% are link posts and 23% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/indieheads?
Across 569 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 16:00 UTC (4K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 01:00 UTC (3.7K avg upvotes), Saturday at 23:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/indieheads?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/indieheads has 5.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 123 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/indieheads, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.