JapanMakoto is a Drum & Bass act from Japan, ranked #1542 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 154,300 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #14 in Japan and #151 in Drum & Bass among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has slipped 9% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 170K to 154K. Their tracked peak was 170,900 in Aug 24, 2026. They have 42,186 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 42/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “It's Alright, I Feel It”.
Who Makoto is
Makoto Shimizu (清水誠, Shimizu Makoto) (born 1977 in Tokyo, Japan), professionally known as Makoto (マコト, Makoto), is a Japanese drum and bass musician, producer and DJ. Among other distinctive elements of Makoto's musical style, a heavy influence of 1970s-era soul, funk and jazz fusion can be heard throughout the vast majority of his repertoire.
Biography from the Makoto article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Makoto, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
It's Alright, I Feel ItMakoto · 2026472
Free MyselfMakoto · 2025433
Cold ExpanseMakoto · 2020424
SKYLINE FEVERMakoto · 2026355
Got Me Trippin'Makoto · 2026376
Astral TravellingMakoto · 2026347
BluebirdSick Music 2019 · 2019378
I Don't Wanna Wake UpSalvation · 2017379
MagicMakoto · 20263610
YGMYCMakoto · 201635Latest releases
21 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Better Days2026 · singleAstral Travelling2026 · singleSKYLINE FEVER2026 · singleGot Me Trippin'2026 · single
Summer Summer2026 · singleIt's Alright, I Feel It2026 · singleMagic2026 · single
Lovesick2026 · single
How I Do It Like That2026 · single
Looking Down2025 · single
Golden Girl (Re-Recorded Version) (Makoto Remix)2025 · single
Golden Girl (Re-Recorded Version)2025 · singlePost this ranking
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7 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 171K in the week of Aug 24, 2026.
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Makoto vs the field
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Makoto in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does Makoto have?
Makoto has 154,300 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Makoto's world ranking?
Makoto is ranked #1542 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Makoto from?
Makoto is from Japan, where they rank #14 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Makoto make?
Makoto is categorised as Drum & Bass in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as liquid funk, drum and bass, jungle.
Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.