Justin Hayward is a Mainstage act, ranked #1693 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 123,200 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #290 in Mainstage among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has grown 5% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 117K to 123K. They have 51,540 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 40/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Forever Autumn”.
Who Justin Hayward is
David Justin Hayward (born 14 October 1946) is an English musician. He was the guitarist and frontman of the rock band the Moody Blues from 1966 until its dissolution in 2018. He became the group's principal vocalist and its most prolific songwriter over the 1967–1974 period, and composed several international hit singles for the band. With John Lodge's death in 2025, Hayward is the last surviving member of the classic Moody Blues lineup. Singles written by Hayward for the Moody Blues include "Nights in White Satin", "Tuesday Afternoon", "Never Comes the Day", "Question", "The Voice", "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" and "English Sunset"; he wrote 20 of the group's 27 post-1967 singles. He also has a solo career. His first album outside the Moody Blues, Blue Jays, a collaboration with John Lodge, reached the UK top five in 1975. The single "Blue Guitar", recorded with 10cc as the backing band, reached the UK top ten in 1975, and his 1978 recording of "Forever Autumn" from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds reached the UK top five. In 2018 Hayward was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Moody Blues and in 2022 was appointed Officer…
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Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Justin Hayward, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Forever AutumnAll the Way · 2016412
Forever AutumnJeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of The Worlds · 1978463Blue GuitarAll the Way · 2016314
Nights in White Satin (Notte Di Luce)Sometimes I Dream · 2002315
One Lonely Room - Remastered 1985Songwriter (Remastered 1985) · 1985246I Dreamed Last NightAll the Way · 2016197
Nights in White Satin - 2023 RemasterClassic Rock Renaissance · 2023268
Remember Me (My Friend)Playlist Plus · 2008149Raised On Love - Remastered 1985Songwriter (Remastered 1985) · 19852410
Learning The Game - Remastered 1985Marie (Remastered 1985) · 198525Latest releases
12 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Life In A Northern Town2025 · single
Living for Love (Live)2023 · single
Living for Love2022 · single
One Summer Day2020 · single
Nights in White Satin (Arr. Hale, Delago, Assad)2019 · singleAll the Way2016 · album
Spirits of the Western Sky2013 · album
Classic Blue1989 · albumSongwriter (Remastered 1985)1985 · album
One Lonely Room (Remastered 1985)1985 · singleMarie (Remastered 1985)1985 · single
Nights In White Satin1967 · singlePost this ranking
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How many monthly Spotify listeners does Justin Hayward have?
Justin Hayward has 123,200 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Justin Hayward's world ranking?
Justin Hayward is ranked #1693 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
What kind of music does Justin Hayward make?
Justin Hayward is categorised as Mainstage in the DJ INDEX.
Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.