PortugalBuraka Som Sistema is a Bass act from Portugal, ranked #1252 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 246,300 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #5 in Portugal and #274 in Bass among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has slipped 17% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 297K to 246K. Their tracked peak was 297,400 in Aug 17, 2026. They have 100,624 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 43/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Kalemba (Wegue - Wegue)”.
Who Buraka Som Sistema is
Buraka Som Sistema was an electronic dance music project from Portugal, specializing in a fusion of techno beats with the African zouk and kuduro genre. It is generally credited with creating the "zouk bass" and "progressive kuduro" variant and has received an MTV European Music Award. In 2015 Buraka Som Sistema said they would be taking an hiatus starting in 2016, and on 1 July 2016 they performed live for the last time in Lisbon, before they reunited and performed on 11 July 2026 in NOS Alive.
Biography from the Buraka Som Sistema article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Buraka Som Sistema, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Kalemba (Wegue - Wegue)Black Diamond · 2009562
Hangover (BaBaBa)Komba · 2011433
BaBaBa (Hangover)Buraka Som Sistema · 2025434Puro MamboBuraka Som Sistema · 2026405(We Stay) Up All NightKomba · 2011326Sound Of KuduroBlack Diamond · 2009327
Vuvuzela (Carnaval)Buraka · 2014308StoopidBuraka · 2014279
Yah!From Buraka to the World · 20062610Aqui Para VocesBlack Diamond · 200926Latest releases
12 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Puro Mambo2026 · singleBaBaBa (Hangover)2025 · single
Buraka 4 Ever (Live)2021 · albumBuraka2014 · album
Tira o Pe2012 · single
R3W1ND - Mambos Raros2012 · albumKomba2011 · album
(We Stay) Up All Night2011 · single
IC19 (Mad Decent Remixes)2009 · single
IC192009 · singleBlack Diamond2009 · albumFrom Buraka to the World2006 · albumPost this ranking
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How many monthly Spotify listeners does Buraka Som Sistema have?
Buraka Som Sistema has 246,300 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Buraka Som Sistema's world ranking?
Buraka Som Sistema is ranked #1252 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Buraka Som Sistema from?
Buraka Som Sistema is from Portugal, where they rank #5 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Buraka Som Sistema make?
Buraka Som Sistema is categorised as Bass in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as kuduro, moombahton.
Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.