Diplo is a House act from United States, ranked #6 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 46,044,883 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #3 in United States and #3 in House among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has grown 3% over the 7 weeks we have tracked them, from 44.6M to 46M. They have 3,052,706 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 81/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Where Are Ü Now (with Justin Bieber)”.
Who Diplo is
Thomas Wesley "Wes" Pentz Jr. (born November 10, 1978), known professionally as Diplo, is an American DJ and record producer. He gained recognition in 2008 with his single "Blow Your Head". He is a co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project Major Lazer; a member of the supergroup LSD, with Labrinth and Sia; a member of electronic duo Jack Ü, with producer and DJ Skrillex; and a member of Silk City, with Mark Ronson. He founded the record company Mad Decent in 2006 and the nonprofit organization Heaps Decent in 2007. His 2013 extended play (EP) Revolution debuted at number 68 on the US Billboard 200. Its title track was later featured in a Hyundai commercial and appears on the WWE 2K16 soundtrack. Diplo worked with and dated British musician M.I.A., producing her 2008 breakout single "Paper Planes". In 2011, he and fellow producer Switch formed the electronic musical group Major Lazer and its namesake cartoon series for FXX, which ran for one season. The group released five studio albums that explored EDM and dancehall music, pioneering a new musical genre, ReggaeEDM. Since then, Diplo has produced for and collaborated with many mainstream musical acts,…
Biography from the Diplo article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Diplo, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Listener trend
8 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 46M in the week of Sep 28, 2026.
Scene ranks
Around them in the chart
Artists to compare
Acts at a similar level in house, and the biggest names from United States.
Diplo vs the field
Settle it on the numbers — monthly listeners, rank and trend, side by side.
Diplo in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does Diplo have?
Diplo has 46,044,883 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026.
What is Diplo's world ranking?
Diplo is ranked #6 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Diplo from?
Diplo is from United States, where they rank #3 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Diplo make?
Diplo is categorised as House and Mainstage in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as moombahton.
Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from an exact public source.