Listener and follower figures as of Oct 29, 2026; observation coverage varies by metric.
Rock, Blues, Folk, Alternative, Electronic
354,000 people listened to Tinariwen in the last month, down 8% in 30 days.
Tinariwen ranks #37,029 worldwide and currently has 354,123 monthly listeners and 566,802 followers. StreamClout groups Tinariwen in the rising tier, its band for artists of comparable reach. The catalog spans 39 albums and 225 tracks and has drawn 208,306,279 Spotify streams in total.
Tinariwen lost 13.5K monthly listeners (-3.7%) over the last 7 days and lost 32.4K monthly listeners (-8.4%) over the last 30 days. Followers gained 1.2K (+0.2%) over the last 7 days.
The most-streamed release is Elwan with 51,994,736 streams. The first release on record dates to 2004 — 22 years of releases tracked. Listening concentrates in London (8.4K listeners), Melbourne (6.0K listeners) and Sydney (5.1K listeners).
There is a depth of feeling in Tinariwen’s music that is universal. But to really understand the message of their songs, you need to understand where they’re from. Tinariwen are Tuaregs, children of a nomadic Berber tribe who have roamed the Saharan desert for thousands of years. Over recent centuries, colonialism has seen the Tuareg’s ancestral territory partitioned into distinct countries - Mali, Algeria, Libya, Niger.
Tinariwen has 354K monthly listeners on Spotify, down 13.5K (3.7%) this week and 8.4% over 30 days. StreamClout updates this figure every day from Spotify's public data.
Tinariwen has 208M streams on Spotify across 225 tracked tracks.
Tinariwen is losing monthly listeners: down 13.5K (3.7%) this week and 8.4% over 30 days.
Tinariwen's top cities by Spotify listeners are London (8.4K listeners), Melbourne (6K listeners), Sydney (5.1K listeners), Paris (4.8K listeners), Berlin (4.4K listeners).
Elwan is Tinariwen's most streamed release on Spotify with 52M total streams, released on Feb 10, 2017.