Rick James Monthly Listeners & Spotify Streams

Overview

Rick James currently has 5,102,334 monthly listeners and 1,451,723 followers. StreamClout groups Rick James in the mainstream tier, its band for artists of comparable reach. The catalog spans 24 albums and 317 tracks and has drawn 7,696,212,886 Spotify streams in total.

Rick James gained 41.3K monthly listeners (+0.8%) over the last 7 days and gained 26.6K monthly listeners (+0.5%) over the last 30 days. Followers gained 2.8K (+0.2%) over the last 7 days.

The most-streamed release is Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James with 1,559,571,614 streams. The first release on record dates to 1978 — 48 years of releases tracked. Listening concentrates in Los Angeles (96.9K listeners), London (78.3K listeners) and Chicago (61.2K listeners).

Streaming Statistics

• 5,102,334 monthly listeners
• 1,451,723 followers
• 7,696,212,886 total streams
• 24 albums
• 317 tracks

Recorded Count Changes

• Listeners 7d: +41.3K (+0.8%)
• Followers 7d: +2.8K (+0.2%)

Top Cities

1. Los Angeles — 96,861 listeners
2. London — 78,286 listeners
3. Chicago — 61,172 listeners
4. São Paulo — 57,211 listeners
5. Mexico City — 57,141 listeners

Top Tracks

1. U Can't Touch This — 569,143,469 streams from Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James
2. Super Freak — 483,675,617 streams from Anthology
3. Super Freak — 483,675,617 streams from Street Songs (Expanded Edition)
4. Super Freak — 483,675,617 streams from Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James
5. Super Freak — 483,675,617 streams from Bustin' Out: The Best Of Rick James
6. Super Freak - Pt. 1/1981 Single Version — 483,675,617 streams from The Definitive Collection
7. Super Freak — 483,675,617 streams from 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Rick James
8. Super Freak — 483,675,617 streams from Street Songs (Deluxe Edition)
9. Super Freak — 483,675,617 streams from Rick James: Cold Blooded
10. Give It To Me Baby — 172,241,680 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 — 897.2M streams (1994-05-17)
• Rick James: Cold Blooded — 875.2M streams (2026-06-19)
• Anthology — 874.2M streams (2002-06-18)
• The Definitive Collection — 862.0M streams (2006-03-14)
• 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Rick James — 821.6M streams (2000-01-01)
• Street Songs (Deluxe Edition) — 729.7M streams (1981-04-07)
• Street Songs (Expanded Edition) — 727.0M 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) — 129.7M streams (1978-04-20)
• Cold Blooded (Expanded Edition) — 35.9M streams (1983-08-05)
• Throwin' Down (Expanded Edition) — 19.1M streams (1982-01-01)

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