Latest available artist snapshot; observation coverage varies by metric.
The Tubes currently has 406,211 monthly listeners and 130,445 followers. StreamClout groups The Tubes in the rising tier, its band for artists of comparable reach. The catalog spans 17 albums and 242 tracks and has drawn 168,566,072 Spotify streams in total.
The Tubes gained 5.6K monthly listeners (+1.4%) over the last 7 days and lost 16.8K monthly listeners (-4.0%) over the last 30 days. Followers gained 275 (+0.2%) over the last 7 days.
The most-streamed release is Best Of with 67,167,103 streams. The first release on record dates to 1975 — 51 years of releases tracked. Listening concentrates in Chicago (7.9K listeners), Philadelphia (5.6K listeners) and Charlotte (4.7K listeners).
The Tubes were arch satirists of popular culture whose outrageous performance art concepts -- which swung wildly from softcore pornography to suit-and-tie conservatism -- frequently eclipsed their elusive musical identity. The beginnings of the group originated in Phoenix, Arizona, in the late '60s, where guitarist Bill Spooner, keyboardist Vince Welnick, and bassist Rick Anderson formed as the Beans (alternately billing themselves as the Radar Men from Uranus). After moving to San Francisco in
The Tubes currently has 406,211 monthly listeners on Spotify. That's a +1.4% recorded count change across 7 observed days.
The Tubes has 168,566,072 total streams across 242 tracks on Spotify.
The Tubes has 130,445 followers on Spotify.
The Tubes's top cities by listeners are Chicago, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Minneapolis, Dallas.