Germanyalva noto is a Techno act from Germany, ranked #1363 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 199,700 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #119 in Germany and #175 in Techno among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has grown 47% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 136K to 200K. They have 108,680 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 46/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Conversation 3”.
Who alva noto is
Carsten Nicolai (born 18 September 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, now Chemnitz) is a German artist, musician and label owner. As a musician he is known under the pseudonym Alva Noto.
Biography from the alva noto article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for alva noto, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Conversation 3alva noto · 2026442
Carrying GlassThe Revenant (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2015393The Revenant Theme (Alva Noto Remodel)The Revenant (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2015384
Berlin-orbit 4Be Quiet · 2026325Hawk PunishedThe Revenant (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2015376Church DreamThe Revenant (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2015367
AuroraInsen · 2005348
Conversation 6alva noto · 2026349First DreamThe Revenant (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 20153310
Opto File 1Opto Files · 200133Latest releases
21 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
12 Conversations2026 · album
Xerrox, Vol.52024 · album
HYbr:ID III2024 · album
HYbr:ID II2023 · album
This Stolen Country of Mine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)2023 · album
Kinder der Sonne (From "Komplizen")2023 · album
HYbr:ID I2021 · album
Xerrox, Vol. 42020 · album
Unieqav Remixes2020 · album
Alphabet2019 · album
Two (Live at Sydney Opera House)2019 · album
グレン・グールド・ギャザリング2018 · albumPost this ranking
A ready-made card with the current world rank — story size for Instagram and TikTok, square for the feed.
1080 × 1920 for stories, 1080 × 1080 for the feed. Updated every week.
Paste it anywhere — your site, a press kit, a booking page. It refreshes itself every Monday, so the number is never the one from the week you copied it.
<a href="https://dj-index.com/artist/alva-noto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
<img src="https://dj-index.com/artist/alva-noto/badge"
alt="alva noto on the DJ INDEX world ranking" height="52">
</a>Listener trend
7 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 200K in the week of Sep 28, 2026.
Scene ranks
Around them in the chart
Artists to compare
Acts at a similar level in techno, and the biggest names from Germany.
alva noto vs the field
Settle it on the numbers — monthly listeners, rank and trend, side by side.
alva noto in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does alva noto have?
alva noto has 199,700 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is alva noto's world ranking?
alva noto is ranked #1363 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is alva noto from?
alva noto is from Germany, where they rank #119 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does alva noto make?
alva noto is categorised as Techno in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as drone, ambient, glitch, idm.
Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.