Yoshiki Hayashi. He tends to write a fair amount of lyrics that are either heavily sexual or angsty, is well-endowed, poses shirtless a lot, has done bondage performances with himself as a submissive being dominated by women on stage and several BDSM or Gorn themed photoshoots...and those aren't even counting the ones where he's in the shower, nude, or in pants with a crotch two sizes too small. Also has at some points had a sizable Slash Fic fandom and bisexual and gay (and some straight) men are among the Groupie Brigade. That and he looks to be in his early 30s despite being 15 years older than that.
The Rum Tum Tugger from CATS (in-show). All the lady-cats actually had a Squee moment during the character's song, although most of the male cats did have their share of female cats interested in them.
Rammstein: While everyone in the band could qualify, a special mention goes to the singer, Till Lindemann. That deep voice, very tall and muscular body usually left shirtless or clothed in tight black leather, and really comfortable with doing male-on-male scenes. Rammstein fans know this. Massachusetts knows this. Flake knows this.
Lead guitarist Richard Z. Kruspe is also especially noticeable. Muscular body. Close-fitting clothes. Hypnotic steel-grey eyes. And if all of that isn't enough, his video for Emigrate song "New York City" is pure fanservice (with a bonus fetish collar).
Sean "Slug" Daley of the hip-hop group Atmosphere has a lot of female fans. A * lot* of female fans.
Drake. His musical persona and slightly Pretty Boy appearance helps this.
Justin Bieber played up the fanservice during his adult career; he appears shirtless and/or soaked in most of his music videos and concerts, has become an underwear model, and has been caught in several "accidental" situations by the paparazzi that have involved him being caught in public either nude or very, very close to it.
Der Tod from Elisabeth. Particularly as played by Uwe Kröger
Sting from The Police in the video for "Don't Stand So Close To Me". I mean, why else would he have taken his shirt off?
Which prompts the thought: no wonder his student's hot for him ...
This may wall have kickstarted some women's puberty. It was either this, his solo video for "Fortress Around Your Heart", or Sting in the Flying Underpants in DUNE.
Michael Hutchence of INXS was one in a big way in the late 80s. Just take a look at their videos.
Peter Steele of Type O Negative. Doesn't help he posed for Playgirl.
Steve Bays of Hot Hot Heat, judging by Facebook groups such as "Steve Bays Is My Sexy Tight Pants God". It might be the crazy, curly hair or the tortured singing. It's something, for sure, judging by girls at the band's concerts.
How about let's just name any and every Boy Band that's existed?
Billy Ray Cyrus at his peak. Dolly Parton literally wrote a song about how hot he is. Todd in the Shadows speculated that Miley Cyrus' sexually explicit persona and scandalous antics are just an imitation of her father.
Doctor Steel seems to invoke this sort of response in a great number of women, especially when he takes his shirt off. Doesn't mind a number of scantily-clad nurses and scouts assisting him, either.
2D of Gorillaz was intentionally picked by Murdoc to be the Pretty Boy frontman. 2D's original bio described him thus: "Voice like an angel, arse like a satsuma." In-universe, it works great.
Damon Albarn of Blur used to be one intentionally in the nineties◊. But he still◊ pretty much is one.
Apocalyptica actively plays to this trope, most often playing on stage shirtless just to please the fangirls. This was particularly evident with Eicca in the early days, though he's put his shirt back on and Perttu◊ Kivilaakso◊ has taken the role (observe how the interviewer introduces him).
GACKT's appearance in Japanese drama Fuurin Kazan was expected to increase young adult female viewers. What they didn't anticipate was that he also drew in 40+ year old female fans as well.
Heck, this is part of the reason he and his songs keep appearing in so many video games, animes and TV shows. His appearances in such media often results in a boost in ratings, viewer ship, and sales. He's that popular.
Everyone in Panic! at the Disco, though Brendon Urie and Ryan Ross (before the split) stand out.
Ryan had so many fangirls that in the split they lost a significant amount of their fans.
Brendon has actually been stripping on stage as of late.
The music video for Girls/Girls/Boys is the embodiment of this trope. If Brendon is wearing pants, they aren't visible to the camera. Said camera spends the song zooming in and out to show off his face and body. At one point, it slowly pans down from his face to his chest and stops just below his bellybutton.
In the video for My Chemical Romance's song "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)", rhythm guitarist Frank Iero kisses frontman Gerard Way on the cheek, thus catering to the popular "Frerard" ship between the two.
Koshi Inaba from B'z: even in his fifties, he still regularly appears in Japanese sexiest man polls. Recenly he was voted 7th in a Japanese male artist with the greatest body poll. Note that he's one of the two in the poll who is above 40, the other one is 41 while the rest is below 40.
Voltaire - Most of their fanbase is female. Just look at them.
Eminem, especially in the video for "3Am", during which he spends most of the video shirtless.
Linkin Park's late frontman Chester Bennington was notable for showing off his tattoos as well as lean build in a majority of the band's music videos and concert performances.
Shayne Ward (the second winner of The X Factor) was hunky to begin with, but he showed◊ a◊ lot◊ of◊ skin◊ during his third album era.
Though Jonny Greenwood pretty swiftly emerged as Ladies Choice in Radiohead - with his floppy hair, chiseled cheek bones and apparent ability to play any instrument he lays his hands on - it's never stopped fellow guitarist Ed O'Brien from trying. In the early days he sported some fairly over the top shirts and classic rock star moves, but over time this has been tamed to just some well fitting t-shirts, tousled hair and rock-star stubble. It tends to come across more hunky-Dad-on-a-school-run than International-Rock-Star, but he works it. Or at least did until later.
This trope is the entire basis of the singing career of Fabian.
Not to be outdone, Smith did a photo session in a swimming pool where he's half-naked anddripping wet that capitalized on his status as a sex◊ symbol,◊ and one magazine's caption◊ even laments, "[Curt is] wet with the tears of fans who found out he's (sob) married."
R&B traditionalist D'Angelo struggled with his own status as such, especially after addiction and weight gain undid it. His comeback album gently parodies the whole thing.
"So if you're wonderin' what kind of shape I'm in,
I hope it's not my abdomen you're referring to..."
Josh Ramsay, although apparently he doesn't think so. He comes out in his underwear at one point in the music video for "Desperate Measures".
Nicco is known for being shirtless, given his chest and biceps are huge. He has a habit of showing all this to the camera.
Tim Cappello is a multi-instrumentalist and composer, but is probably most frequently recognized for his shirtless, oiled-up saxophone performance in The Lost Boys. He also worked with Tina Turner and showed up (shirtless again) in the video for "We Don't Need Another Hero".
Ross Lynch from R5 and The Driver Era, a lot of behind the scenes videos seem to be filmed when he's been dressed in no more than small, tight boxers briefs. One of their music videos also has his emerge from a hot tub in small, wet, nearly see through white underpants. He also has a habit of performing on stage whilst shirtless while dancing suggestively
Leigh Kakaty from Pop Evil cranks this up to the point of appearing with no visible covering except body paint in the "Deal With the Devil" video.
Nuno Bettencourt from Extreme. And as seen here, his good looks have held up remarkably well with age.
The glam metal scene of the 80's had many Long-Haired Pretty Boy type musicians of this calibre (usually the frontmen, but others, like Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt as mentioned above, also qualify), but who takes the cake in this regard? Jon Bon Jovi, whose athletic build, charming smile, stage presence (especially his tendency to wear navel-deep clothes exposing his chest and booty shake) and long locks have endeared him to women everywhere, even to when his hair got cut shorter and gotten grey, even though he's managed to age very well.
David Sylvian from Japan, to the point where he was voted "the most handsome man in the world"note Interestingly enough, David himself wasn't too fond of this, as he wanted to be taken seriously as a musician and not a Pretty Boy idol. His brother Steve as well.
Midge Ure from Ultravox definitely qualified when he was younger; it was half the reason why the band was popular amongst the younger side of the fanbase.
Alan & Dave from Depeche Mode; Dave's good looks were invoked several times by the band, such as on this 1985 Japanese tour book page where's he outright referred to as sexy, but strangely, Alan's weren't despite him being more attractive.
The video for the Underdog Project's song "Summer Jam" has lots of shots of women in string bikinis and microshorts, but it also has plenty of shots of shirtless musclemen working out and playing basketball.
Shawn Mendes has shown a lot of skin in the later stages of his career, appearing shirtless in his videos for songs like Treat You Better, Lost In Japan, Senorita and Summer Of Love. The video for Wonder also features Mendes running around in just a vest which then gets soaking wet and exposes his abs.
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