Lights is a Mainstage act from Canada, ranked #607 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 801,000 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #19 in Canada and #154 in Mainstage among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has slipped 1% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 806K to 801K. Their tracked peak was 805,700 in Aug 17, 2026. They have 327,325 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 56/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “When The Summer Dies”.
Who Lights is
Lights Valerie Anne Poxleitner-Bokan (born Valerie Anne Poxleitner; April 11, 1987), known mononymously as Lights (previously stylized in all caps), is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter. Her debut album, The Listening (2009), reached the top 10 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart and was certified platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) for selling over 80,000 copies as of 2017. The album included the singles "Drive My Soul" and "February Air" which were featured in a series of Old Navy television ads. Her second album, Siberia, which featured the single "Toes", was released in 2011. A more dubstep influenced record, Siberia has received generally positive reviews from music critics and achieved moderate success, entering the top 50 on the Billboard 200 and selling more than 10,000 units in its first week. Her work has earned multiple Canadian Independent Music Awards, and Juno Awards including Pop Album of the Year for her third album Little Machines, which included the single "Up We Go", and fourth album Skin & Earth, in 2015 and 2018, respectively. Lights's fifth studio album, Pep, was released in 2022. Her newest record A6 was released May…
Biography from the Lights article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Lights, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Listener trend
7 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 806K in the week of Aug 17, 2026.
Scene ranks
Around them in the chart
Artists to compare
Acts at a similar level in mainstage, and the biggest names from Canada.
Lights vs the field
Settle it on the numbers — monthly listeners, rank and trend, side by side.
Lights in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does Lights have?
Lights has 801,000 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Lights's world ranking?
Lights is ranked #607 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Lights from?
Lights is from Canada, where they rank #19 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Lights make?
Lights is categorised as Mainstage and Techno and Melodic Techno 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.