Citizen is a Hardstyle act from Italy, ranked #741 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 611,000 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #32 in Italy and #51 in Hardstyle among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has slipped 12% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 698K to 611K. Their tracked peak was 723,200 in Aug 24, 2026. They have 324,089 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 58/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Good Fortune”.
Who Citizen is
Citizen is an American rock band formed in 2009. They were originally split between Southeast Michigan and Northwest Ohio and are currently based in Toledo, Ohio. Lead vocalist Mat Kerekes and brothers Nick (lead guitar) and Eric (bass) Hamm have featured in every lineup since formation; the present iteration features rhythm guitarist Mason Mercer and drummer Ben Russin. They are signed to Run for Cover Records and have released six studio albums to date: Youth (2013), Everybody Is Going to Heaven (2015), As You Please (2017), Life in Your Glass World (2021), Calling the Dogs (2023), and Halycon Blues (2026). Considered a part of emo's fourth wave, Pitchfork has described Citizen as "a band their fans can grow up with rather than out of".
Biography from the Citizen article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Citizen, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Latest releases
19 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Listener trend
7 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 723K in the week of Aug 24, 2026.
Scene ranks
Around them in the chart
Artists to compare
Acts at a similar level in hardstyle, and the biggest names from Italy.
Citizen vs the field
Settle it on the numbers — monthly listeners, rank and trend, side by side.
Citizen in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does Citizen have?
Citizen has 611,000 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Citizen's world ranking?
Citizen is ranked #741 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Citizen from?
Citizen is from Italy, where they rank #32 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Citizen make?
Citizen is categorised as Hardstyle in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as midwest emo, pop punk, emo, post-hardcore.
Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.