The English Beat currently has 402,335 monthly listeners and 173,876 followers. StreamClout groups The English Beat in the rising tier, its band for artists of comparable reach. The catalog spans 9 albums and 116 tracks and has drawn 377,554,243 Spotify streams in total.
The English Beat gained 237 monthly listeners (+0.1%) over the last 7 days and lost 31.2K monthly listeners (-7.2%) over the last 30 days. Followers gained 203 (+0.1%) over the last 7 days.
The most-streamed release is Keep The Beat: The Very Best Of The English Beat with 166,305,458 streams. The first release on record dates to 1979 — 47 years of releases tracked. Listening concentrates in Los Angeles (13.6K listeners), Chicago (9.9K listeners) and Toronto (9.2K listeners).
One tempestuous weekend in March 1979 was not only the date of the Three Mile Island nuclear incident, but also, in Birmingham, England, the very first show by a nascent band known as The Beat. Introduced as “the hottest thing since the Pennsylvania meltdown”, the band had a sense that the next few years could well be explosive! The Beat hailed from working class, industrial Birmingham, England. When The Beat rushed on to the music scene in 1979, it was a time of social, political and musical up