Plaid is a Techno act from United Kingdom, ranked #1852 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 99,900 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #337 in United Kingdom and #253 in Techno among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has slipped 3% over the 7 weeks we have tracked them, from 103K to 99.9K. Their tracked peak was 103,000 in Aug 17, 2026. They have 123,396 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 37/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Ralome”.
Who Plaid is
Plaid are an English electronic music duo composed of Andy Turner and Ed Handley. They were founding members of The Black Dog and used many other names, such as Atypic (Andy Turner) and Balil (Ed Handley), before settling on Plaid. They have collaborated with singers Mara Carlyle, Nicolette and Björk, and have released records on the labels Clear, Peacefrog, Black Dog Productions, and Warp (along with Trent Reznor's label Nothing Records). Aside from their own material, Plaid have done extensive remix work for many other artists, including Red Snapper, Björk, Goldfrapp, and The Irresistible Force. Parts in the Post (2003) and Stem Sell (2021) contains a lot of Plaid's remix work to date. Plaid collaborated with video artist Bob Jaroc for their live performances and on the 5.1 audio/visual project entitled Greedy Baby. The project was completed on 20 July 2005, and was first shown at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in the South Bank Centre, and subsequently at the BFI Imax cinema in Waterloo, London. Greedy Baby was released on DVD from Warp on 26 June 2006. In 2006, Plaid composed and performed the original score to Michael Arias' anime film Tekkonkinkreet, and then went on to rejoin…
Biography from the Plaid article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Plaid, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Listener trend
8 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 103K in the week of Aug 17, 2026.
Scene ranks
Around them in the chart
Artists to compare
Acts at a similar level in techno, and the biggest names from United Kingdom.
Plaid vs the field
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Plaid in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does Plaid have?
Plaid has 99,900 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Oct 5, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Plaid's world ranking?
Plaid is ranked #1852 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Plaid from?
Plaid is from United Kingdom, where they rank #337 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Plaid make?
Plaid is categorised as Techno and Bass in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as idm, glitch.
Snapshot from the week of Oct 5, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.