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DJ Lag, Afro House from South Africa

DJ Lag

World rank
#471
NEWvs last week
Monthly listeners
756K
≈ 756,200 · rounded by Spotify
Spotify followers
74K
73,951
Rank in South Africa
#7
among tracked acts
Popularity
49
Spotify index, 0–100
Profile

Who DJ Lag is

Lwazi Asanda Gwala, better known as DJ Lag, is a South African DJ and record producer. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of gqom, a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 2010s in Durban, South Africa. In 2019, DJ Lag notably collaborated with Tierra Whack, Beyoncé, Moonchild Sanelly, Nija, Yemi Alade and Busiswa on a track called "My Power" on Beyoncé's album, The Lion King: The Gift.

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

Catalogue

Most played tracks

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

Discography

Latest releases

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

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DJ Lag in numbers

How many monthly Spotify listeners does DJ Lag have?

DJ Lag has 756,200 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Aug 17, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.

What is DJ Lag's world ranking?

DJ Lag is ranked #471 of 1214 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.

Where is DJ Lag from?

DJ Lag is from South Africa, where they rank #7 among the acts we track.

What kind of music does DJ Lag make?

DJ Lag is categorised as Afro House and House in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as gqom, amapiano, 3 step.

Snapshot from the week of Aug 17, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.