Who Crookers is
Crookers is the musical project of Italian DJ and producer Francesco "Phra" Barbaglia. Crookers was originally a duo consisting of Phra and fellow producer Bot, who worked together from 2003 to 2012. When the two artists met, both were trying to branch out of their genre and explore dance music. Their first collaboration worked. Phra said, "It felt natural to team up, seeing that we had the same musical tastes... which isn't that easy here in Milan." On October 19, 2012, it was announced that Bot had left the group to pursue a new direction and that Phra would carry on the Crookers name as a solo project. Since then, Phra has produced the song "Ghetto Guetta" under the Crookers alias; the song was published on Phra's own label Ciao Recs under licence to the Be Yourself Catalog as well as Owsla. Phra has released singles from his forthcoming 'Sixteen Chapel' album. 'Heavy' followed 'Ghetto Guetta' as the second single off the album. There were remixes from Hybrid Theory, Donovans and Sharkslayer & First Gift. Following that, Crookers then released Able To Maximize via Ciao Recs with remixes from Chuckie, franskild, Mao Ra Sun, Digi and Suck Fake. Phra then released 'Get Excited ft…
Biography from the Crookers article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Crookers, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Listener trend
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Scene ranks
Around them in the chart
Artists to compare
Acts at a similar level in mainstage, and the biggest names from Italy.
Crookers in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does Crookers have?
Crookers has 3,000,000 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Aug 17, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Crookers's world ranking?
Crookers is ranked #204 of 1214 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Crookers from?
Crookers is from Italy, where they rank #10 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Crookers make?
Crookers is categorised as Mainstage and House in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as italian trap.
Snapshot from the week of Aug 17, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.