MC Hammer currently has 3,610,127 monthly listeners and 837,777 followers. StreamClout groups MC Hammer in the mainstream tier, its band for artists of comparable reach. The catalog spans 14 albums and 113 tracks and has drawn 2,506,890,918 Spotify streams in total.
MC Hammer lost 5.5K monthly listeners (-0.1%) over the last 7 days and lost 143.7K monthly listeners (-3.8%) over the last 30 days. Followers gained 1.4K (+0.2%) over the last 7 days.
The most-streamed release is Greatest Hits with 634,691,710 streams. The first release on record dates to 1988 — 38 years of releases tracked. Listening concentrates in Santiago (64.7K listeners), Mexico City (58.2K listeners) and Sydney (42.3K listeners).
There had been hit rap singles and albums before him, but MC Hammer was the man who truly brought rap music to a mass pop audience. Armed with a flamboyant wardrobe (particularly his trademark baggy parachute pants) and a raft of sampled hooks lifted straight from their sources, Hammer's talents as a dancer and showman far exceeded his technique as an MC. Still, he had an ear for catchy source material, and that helped his second album, Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, become the best-selling rap a