South AfricaDJ Lag is an Afro House act from South Africa, ranked #650 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 736,000 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #11 in South Africa and #23 in Afro House among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has slipped 2% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 750K to 736K. Their tracked peak was 749,900 in Aug 17, 2026. They have 75,859 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 49/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “MY POWER”.
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.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for DJ Lag, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
MY POWERThe Lion King: The Gift · 2019602
Cn I see u (feat. BarbieSZN)4 DA STREETS! · 2026543
NgyaSindelwaSouthside Mixtape · 2025514WaWaWaSouthside Mixtape · 2025445
Overdue (feat. DJ Lag & Kooldrink)DJ Lag · 2021496
Hade BossTHE REBELLION · 2024407RSVPSouthside Mixtape · 2025418
Where's Your FatherDJ Lag · 2022389Native SoundSouthside Mixtape · 20253710GQTECHSouthside Mixtape · 202532Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
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7 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 750K in the week of Aug 17, 2026.
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Acts at a similar level in afro house, and the biggest names from South Africa.
DJ Lag vs the field
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How many monthly Spotify listeners does DJ Lag have?
DJ Lag has 736,000 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is DJ Lag's world ranking?
DJ Lag is ranked #650 of 4408 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 #11 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 Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.