King Crimson currently has 1,125,898 monthly listeners and 1,447,283 followers. StreamClout groups King Crimson in the mainstream tier, its band for artists of comparable reach. The catalog spans 94 albums and 738 tracks and has drawn 519,510,774 Spotify streams in total.
King Crimson gained 19.1K monthly listeners (+1.7%) over the last 7 days and gained 26.4K monthly listeners (+2.4%) over the last 30 days. Followers gained 2.9K (+0.2%) over the last 7 days.
The most-streamed release is In The Court Of The Crimson King (Expanded & Remastered Original Album Mix) with 159,967,932 streams. The first release on record dates to 1969 — 57 years of releases tracked. Listening concentrates in Santiago (23.8K listeners), London (16.6K listeners) and São Paulo (15.6K listeners).
If there is one group that embodies progressive rock, it is King Crimson. Led by guitar/Mellotron virtuoso <a href="spotify:artist:5HKpBHDxIDNdtmEAGXGntl">Robert Fripp</a>, during its first five years of existence the band stretched both the language and structure of rock into realms of jazz and classical music, all the while avoiding pop and psychedelic sensibilities. The absence of mainstream compromises and the lack of an overt sense of humor ultimately doomed the group to nothing more than a