James Cook

@jamesliamcook · LedZepNews · Substack profile · Music

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James Cook has 8,417 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. 29 publications recommend them.

Followers read 6 days ago

Last read Nov 1, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers: 8,417; read Nov 1
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 8.3K+; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: none shown
Recommended by: 29; none new in 30 days
Recommends: 0
Bestsellers rank: not on a board

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. 2 days of readings. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow James Cook on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Nov 1, 2026	8,417	0	8.3K+
Oct 31, 2026	8,417		8.3K+

Leaderboard positions

Not on a category leaderboard right now

Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.

Recommendations

29 publications recommend James Cook. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear.

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Recommendations started per month
Month	Started
2023-05	1
2023-06	1
2023-07	3
2023-08	2
2023-09	1
2023-11	1
2024-01	2
2024-02	1
2024-06	2
2024-08	1
2024-10	1
2025-01	1
2025-03	1
2025-05	1
2025-10	1
2025-11	1
2026-01	3
2026-04	1
2026-06	1
2026-07	1
2026-08	2

Recommended by

The Intellectual Investorstarted Aug 24, 2026
@guybutchers's Substackstarted Aug 5, 2026
Jenny's Substackstarted Jul 3, 2026
shawn's Substackstarted Jun 26, 2026
Morganne's Substackstarted Apr 25, 2026
Diana's Substackstarted Jan 29, 2026
Jorge's Substackstarted Jan 11, 2026
Cathy's Substackstarted Jan 7, 2026
Petra's Substackstarted Nov 10, 2025
Dennis's Substackstarted Oct 2025
Robbie Rob's Echoes in the Staticstarted May 2025
Joseph Corbostarted Mar 2025
Paul’s Substackstarted Jan 2025
Ivy’s Substackstarted Oct 2024
Elia’s Substackstarted Aug 2024
Danny’s Substackstarted Jun 2024
PAULO’s Substackstarted Jun 2024
Keith’s Substackstarted Feb 2024
Karen’s Substackstarted Jan 2024
Jon’s Substackstarted Jan 2024
Ivo’s Substackstarted Nov 2023
gNewsstarted Sep 2023
Bruce de Torres' Substackstarted Aug 2023
Providencewins’s Substackstarted Aug 2023

All 29

Curtis’s Substackstarted Jul 2023
Curtis’s Substackstarted Jul 2023
OK. So, Here's Something I've Been Thinking About...started Jul 2023
Gene’s Substackstarted Jun 2023
Eoghan’s Substackstarted May 2023

Recommends

James Cook doesn't recommend anyone.

Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.

Who recommends writers like this one

Publications that recommend at least two other Music writers with 5,000 to 10,000 followers (38 writers in that group), but not James Cook.

Althea’s Substack
recommends 7 of them
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recommends 3 of them
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recommends 3 of them
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recommends 3 of them
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recommends 3 of them
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recommends 3 of them
Ted Gioia@tedgioia
recommends 2 of them
Neko Case@nekocase
recommends 2 of them
Michael Chabon@michaelchabon
recommends 2 of them
Kevin Alexander@kevinalexander
recommends 2 of them