Ray Charles currently has 8,563,298 monthly listeners and 2,897,243 followers. StreamClout groups Ray Charles in the mainstream tier, its band for artists of comparable reach. The catalog spans 54 albums and 1,048 tracks and has drawn 11,149,234,488 Spotify streams in total.
Ray Charles gained 1.3K monthly listeners (+0.0%) over the last 7 days and lost 374.6K monthly listeners (-4.2%) over the last 30 days. Followers gained 4.5K (+0.2%) over the last 7 days.
The most-streamed release is The Atlantic Hits with 1,069,209,515 streams. The first release on record dates to 1957 — 69 years of releases tracked. Listening concentrates in São Paulo (121.5K listeners), Mexico City (112.8K listeners) and London (104.7K listeners).
Ray Charles was the musician most responsible for developing soul music. Singers like Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson also did a great deal to pioneer the form, but Charles did even more to devise a new form of Black pop by merging '50s R&B with gospel-powered vocals, adding plenty of flavor from contemporary jazz, blues, and (in the '60s) country.