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…
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Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for deadmau5, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Latest releases
19 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Listener trend
2 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 5.4M in the week of Aug 10, 2026.
Scene ranks
Around them in the chart
Artists to compare
Acts at a similar level in melodic techno, and the biggest names from Canada.
deadmau5 in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does deadmau5 have?
deadmau5 has 5,400,000 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Aug 17, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is deadmau5's world ranking?
deadmau5 is ranked #129 of 1214 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 #5 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 Aug 17, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.