Listener and follower figures as of Nov 10, 2026; observation coverage varies by metric.
Rock, Alternative, Jazz
57,900 people listened to Van Der Graaf Generator in the last month, up 6% in 30 days.
Van Der Graaf Generator ranks #143,930 worldwide and currently has 57,895 monthly listeners and 158,114 followers. StreamClout groups Van Der Graaf Generator in the emerging tier, its band for artists of comparable reach. The catalog spans 33 albums and 568 tracks and has drawn 64,428,047 Spotify streams in total.
Van Der Graaf Generator lost 863 monthly listeners (-1.5%) over the last 7 days and gained 3.4K monthly listeners (+6.3%) over the last 30 days. Followers gained 206 (+0.1%) over the last 7 days.
The most-streamed release is The Charisma Years 1970–1978 with 16,820,926 streams. The first release on record dates to 1970 — 56 years of releases tracked. Listening concentrates in Santiago (1.2K listeners), London (922 listeners) and São Paulo (889 listeners).
An eye-opening trip to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury during the summer of 1967 inspired British-born drummer Chris Judge Smith to compose a list of possible names for the rock group he wished to form. Upon his return to Manchester University, he began performing with singer/songwriter Peter Hammill and keyboardist Nick Peame; employing one of the names from Judge Smith's list, the band dubbed itself Van der Graaf Generator (after a machine…
Van Der Graaf Generator has 57.9K monthly listeners on Spotify, down 863 (1.5%) this week and up 6.3% over 30 days. StreamClout updates this figure every day from Spotify's public data.
Van Der Graaf Generator has 64.4M streams on Spotify across 568 tracked tracks.
Van Der Graaf Generator is losing monthly listeners: down 863 (1.5%) this week and up 6.3% over 30 days.
Van Der Graaf Generator's top cities by Spotify listeners are Santiago (1.2K listeners), London (922 listeners), São Paulo (889 listeners), Rome (704 listeners), Mexico City (691 listeners).
The Charisma Years 1970–1978 is Van Der Graaf Generator's most streamed release on Spotify with 16.8M total streams, released on Sep 3, 2021.