South AfricaShimza is an Afro House act from South Africa, ranked #115 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 5,800,000 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #1 in South Africa and #3 in Afro House among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has slipped 14% over the 7 weeks we have tracked them, from 6.74M to 5.8M. Their tracked peak was 6,737,116 in Aug 10, 2026. They have 271,131 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 66/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Fire Fire”.
Who Shimza is
Kholofelo Ashley Raphala, professionally known as Shimza, is a South African DJ and music producer. Born and raised in Tembisa, Shimza developed a musical interest at the age of 15, and signed a recording deal with Soulistic Music and released his debut studio album Shimuzic, in 2015. In February 2020, Shimza appeared on a collaboration "Uwrongo" with Black Motion, Prince Kaybee, and Ami Faku. The song debuted No. 1 on Radiomonitor Charts and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry of South Africa. Shimza released extended play Sunset in Pretoria, on June 19, 2026.
Biography from the Shimza article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Shimza, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Latest releases
19 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Sunset In Pretoria2026 · single
ALGO TÚ (Shimza Remix)2026 · single
Missing You2026 · single
No Shape Without You2026 · single
Falling2026 · single
Fire Fire (Maesic Remix)2025 · single
I Love You So (Shimza Remix)2025 · single
Fire Fire2025 · single
Don't Wake Me Up (Shimza Remix)2025 · single
Skill Of Love2025 · single
Places (Shimza Club Edit)2025 · single
Places (Marten Lou Remix)2024 · singlePost this ranking
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8 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 6.74M in the week of Aug 10, 2026.
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Shimza vs the field
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How many monthly Spotify listeners does Shimza have?
Shimza has 5,800,000 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Shimza's world ranking?
Shimza is ranked #115 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Shimza from?
Shimza is from South Africa, where they rank #1 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Shimza make?
Shimza is categorised as Afro House in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as afro house, afro tech, 3 step.
Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.