FinlandDarude is a Trance act from Finland, ranked #150 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 4,600,000 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #2 in Finland and #6 in Trance among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has slipped 2% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 4.7M to 4.6M. Their tracked peak was 4,700,000 in Aug 17, 2026. They have 314,310 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 63/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Sandstorm”.
Who Darude is
Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen (Finnish: [ˈtoniˌʋilːe ˈhenrik ˈʋirtɑnen]; born 17 July 1975), better known by his stage name Darude, is a Finnish DJ and record producer from Eura, Satakunta. His music is characterised by its progressive/uplifting style. He started making music in 1995 and released the platinum-selling hit single "Sandstorm" in late 1999. His debut studio album, Before the Storm, was released on 18 September 2000, and sold 800,000 copies worldwide, earning Darude three Finnish Grammy Awards. It peaked at number one on Finland's Official List and number 6 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart in the United States. Darude's second studio album, Rush, reached number 11 on the Billboard dance chart in 2003 and number 4 on weekly album chart in Finland. His third studio album, Label This! was released in 2007. Though it did not chart as high as his previous albums, Gawker praised the album's single "In the Darkness" as "a floating, gossamer piece of trance music... it's tightly composed, easy to dance to, and has a soaring, undeniable hook." In 2011, he co-founded the record label EnMass Music, through which he has released a number of mix compilations related to…
Biography from the Darude article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Darude, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
SandstormBefore the Storm · 2000742Feel the BeatBefore the Storm · 2000613
SandstormDarude · 1999514
Surrender - Hixxy RemixSurrender (The Remixes) · 2019505
Feel The Beat - Ilan Bluestone RemixFeel The Beat (Ilan Bluestone Remix) · 2026276
HYPEDarude · 2026447
Sandstorm [Mix Cut] - Mark Sixma RemixLive at Tomorrowland 2017 · 2017428
Sandstorm - Original VersionIn The Mix · 2000399Calm Before the StormBefore the Storm · 20003810Touch Me Feel MeBefore the Storm · 200035Latest releases
22 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Sandstorm (Dimension Remix)2026 · single
Sandstorm (Storm 25 Mix)2026 · singleFeel The Beat (Ilan Bluestone Remix)2026 · single
Feel The Beat (The Remixes)2026 · singleHYPE2026 · single
Closer Together (The SAE/ADE Remixes)2024 · single![Feel So Good (Vain elämää kausi 15) [feat. Darude] cover art](https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02070200a689abfd82697383e8)
Feel So Good (Vain elämää kausi 15) [feat. Darude]2024 · single
Together2023 · album
Nobody Listens (Remixes)2023 · single
Breathe2023 · single
Nobody Listens (Trance Mix)2023 · single
Nobody Listens2023 · singlePost this ranking
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7 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 4.7M in the week of Aug 17, 2026.
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How many monthly Spotify listeners does Darude have?
Darude has 4,600,000 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Darude's world ranking?
Darude is ranked #150 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Darude from?
Darude is from Finland, where they rank #2 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Darude make?
Darude is categorised as Trance and House in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as eurodance.
Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.