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deadmau5, Melodic Techno from Canada

deadmau5

World rank
#129
2rank·−100Klisteners
vs last week
Monthly listeners
5.2M
≈ 5,200,000 · rounded by Spotify
Spotify followers
2.96M
2,956,998
Rank in Canada
#4
among tracked acts
Popularity
69
Spotify index, 0–100

deadmau5 is a Melodic Techno act from Canada, ranked #129 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 5,200,000 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #4 in Canada and #9 in Melodic Techno among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has slipped 4% over the 7 weeks we have tracked them, from 5.4M to 5.2M. Their tracked peak was 5,400,000 in Aug 10, 2026. They have 2,956,998 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 69/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Escape (feat. Hayla)”.

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Jaded
deadmau5 · 2024-11-08 · album · 4 tracks
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Who deadmau5 is

Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), known professionally as Deadmau5, is a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ. His musical style mostly includes progressive house and electro house genres, though he also produces and DJs other genres of electronic music, including techno under the alias Testpilot. Zimmerman mostly appears and performs with a custom helmet called the "mau5head". He has received seven Grammy Award nominations and won four Juno Awards for his songs. Zimmerman has collaborated with other artists, such as Wolfgang Gartner, Rob Swire, and Chris Lake. He collaborated with Steve Duda to form the duo BSOD and later joined Tommy Lee, DJ Aero, and Duda in the electronic band WTF?. In 2007, he founded his own record label, Mau5trap. Zimmerman later formed electronic music supergroups such as Kx5 with Kaskade and Rezzmau5 with Rezz. Zimmerman first gained recognition for his breakthrough album Random Album Title (2008), which was certified gold in Canada and silver in the United Kingdom. The album included the single "Faxing Berlin", and the moderate chart hit "I Remember", a collaboration with Kaskade. He won a Juno Award for both this album and the song "All…

Biography from the deadmau5 article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Catalogue

Most played tracks

The tracks Spotify surfaces first for deadmau5, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.

Discography

Latest releases

19 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.

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History

Listener trend

8 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 5.4M in the week of Aug 10, 2026.

Aug 10, 2026Sep 28, 2026
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How many monthly Spotify listeners does deadmau5 have?

deadmau5 has 5,200,000 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.

What is deadmau5's world ranking?

deadmau5 is ranked #129 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.

Where is deadmau5 from?

deadmau5 is from Canada, where they rank #4 among the acts we track.

What kind of music does deadmau5 make?

deadmau5 is categorised as Melodic Techno and House in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as edm, progressive house, dubstep.

Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.