ItalyCrookers is a Mainstage act from Italy, ranked #205 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 3,200,000 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #9 in Italy and #68 in Mainstage among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has grown 7% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 3M to 3.2M. They have 90,847 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 61/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Day 'N' Nite - US Mix”.
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.
Day 'N' Nite - US MixDay 'n' Nite - EP · 2009162
Day 'N' Nite - Crookers RemixMan On The Moon: The End Of Day (Int'l Version) · 2009703
AIRFORCE (feat. Madame)SOLO TUTTO · 2021624
Day 'N' NiteDay 'n Nite · 2008565STUPIDOSOLO TUTTO · 2021596
AmiciScialla Semper · 2019587BREBBIA 2012SOLO TUTTO · 20215687 MiliardiScialla Semper · 2019519
Polo Nord - [C+N Progressive Mix]Scialla Semper (Emodrill Repack) · 20195210Miss - Emodrill version 2019Scialla Semper (Emodrill Repack) · 201951Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Lose My Mind2025 · single
Disco Estate (feat. Phra)2025 · single
Il taxi (con Angelica)2025 · single
scs2025 · single
Jazz ain't shit2024 · single
Bust 'Em Up (Dismantle Remix)2024 · single
TNXBYE2024 · single
VOILÀ2022 · albumSOLO TUTTO2021 · albumScialla Semper (Emodrill Repack)2019 · albumScialla Semper2019 · album
Crookers mixtape: Quello dopo, quello prima2018 · albumPost this ranking
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7 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 3.2M in the week of Sep 7, 2026.
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How many monthly Spotify listeners does Crookers have?
Crookers has 3,200,000 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Crookers's world ranking?
Crookers is ranked #205 of 4408 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 #9 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 Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.