Listener and follower figures as of Oct 24, 2026; observation coverage varies by metric.
Electronic, Alternative, Classical
89,900 people listened to William Basinski in the last month, down 13% in 30 days.
William Basinski ranks #102,168 worldwide and currently has 89,863 monthly listeners and 148,065 followers. StreamClout groups William Basinski in the emerging tier, its band for artists of comparable reach. The catalog spans 50 albums and 416 tracks and has drawn 90,305,373 Spotify streams in total.
William Basinski lost 2.0K monthly listeners (-2.2%) over the last 7 days and lost 13.8K monthly listeners (-13.3%) over the last 30 days. Followers gained 218 (+0.1%) over the last 7 days.
The most-streamed release is Melancholia with 35,152,780 streams. The first release on record dates to 1998 — 28 years of releases tracked. Listening concentrates in London (2.5K listeners), New York City (1.5K listeners) and Los Angeles (1.4K listeners).
William Basinski is an experimental composer, sound sculptor, and video artist based in Los Angeles, California. He is a relentless experimentalist obsessed with reel-to-reel tape decks, splicing tape and spindling it. His musical signature is evidenced, interestingly enough, by deeply emotional sounds filled with multiple tones, drones, textures, and shades that are as hauntingly beautiful as they are somber.
William Basinski has 89.9K monthly listeners on Spotify, down 2K (2.2%) this week and 13.4% over 30 days. StreamClout updates this figure every day from Spotify's public data.
William Basinski has 90.3M streams on Spotify across 416 tracked tracks.
William Basinski is losing monthly listeners: down 2K (2.2%) this week and 13.4% over 30 days.
William Basinski's top cities by Spotify listeners are London (2.5K listeners), New York City (1.5K listeners), Los Angeles (1.4K listeners), Brooklyn (1.3K listeners), Berlin (1.3K listeners).
Melancholia is William Basinski's most streamed release on Spotify with 35.2M total streams, released on Aug 12, 2003.