Rick James Monthly Listeners & Spotify Streams

Overview

Rick James currently has 5,088,208 monthly listeners and 1,451,314 followers. StreamClout groups Rick James in the mainstream tier, its band for artists of comparable reach. The catalog spans 25 albums and 318 tracks and has drawn 7,695,318,343 Spotify streams in total.

Rick James gained 40.4K monthly listeners (+0.8%) over the last 7 days and gained 13.0K monthly listeners (+0.3%) over the last 30 days. Followers gained 2.9K (+0.2%) over the last 7 days.

The most-streamed release is Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James with 1,558,907,401 streams. The first release on record dates to 1978 — 48 years of releases tracked. Listening concentrates in Los Angeles (96.9K listeners), London (78.1K listeners) and Chicago (61.0K listeners).

Streaming Statistics

• 5,088,208 monthly listeners
• 1,451,314 followers
• 7,695,318,343 total streams
• 25 albums
• 318 tracks

Recorded Count Changes

• Listeners 7d: +40.4K (+0.8%)
• Followers 7d: +2.9K (+0.2%)

Top Cities

1. Los Angeles — 96,927 listeners
2. London — 78,089 listeners
3. Chicago — 61,014 listeners
4. São Paulo — 57,698 listeners
5. Mexico City — 56,937 listeners

Top Tracks

1. U Can't Touch This — 568,924,832 streams from Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James
2. Super Freak — 483,458,334 streams from Street Songs (Expanded Edition)
3. Super Freak — 483,458,334 streams from Anthology
4. Super Freak — 483,458,334 streams from Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James
5. Super Freak — 483,458,334 streams from Bustin' Out: The Best Of Rick James
6. Super Freak — 483,458,334 streams from Street Songs (Deluxe Edition)
7. Super Freak — 483,458,334 streams from 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Rick James
8. Super Freak - Pt. 1/1981 Single Version — 483,458,334 streams from The Definitive Collection
9. Super Freak — 483,458,334 streams from Rick James: Cold Blooded
10. Give It To Me Baby — 172,135,019 streams from 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Rick James

About

In the late 1970s, when the fortunes of Motown Records seemed to be flagging, Rick James came along and rescued the company, providing funky hits that updated the label's style and saw it through into the mid-'80s. Actually, James had been with Motown earlier, though nothing had come of it. After growing up in Buffalo and running away to join the Naval Reserves, he left the Navy for Toronto, where he was in a band with future <a href="spotify:artist:3eskO5m0H4yiF64vRySBjr">Buffalo Springfield</a

Discography

• Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James — 1.6B streams (2021-09-03)
• Bustin' Out: The Best Of Rick James — 896.8M streams (1994-05-17)
• Rick James: Cold Blooded — 874.8M streams (2026-06-19)
• Anthology — 873.8M streams (2002-06-18)
• The Definitive Collection — 861.6M streams (2006-03-14)
• 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Rick James — 821.2M streams (2000-01-01)
• Street Songs (Deluxe Edition) — 729.3M streams (1981-04-07)
• Street Songs (Expanded Edition) — 726.6M streams (1981-04-07)
• 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best Of Rick James And Friends, Volume 2 — 133.4M streams (2005-01-01)
• Come Get It! (Expanded Edition) — 129.6M streams (1978-04-20)
• Cold Blooded (Expanded Edition) — 35.8M streams (1983-08-05)
• Throwin' Down (Expanded Edition) — 19.1M streams (1982-01-01)

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