United KingdomShpongle is a Psytrance act from United Kingdom, ranked #1537 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 154,600 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #278 in United Kingdom and #28 in Psytrance among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has slipped 1% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 157K to 155K. Their tracked peak was 156,900 in Aug 24, 2026. They have 335,825 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 45/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Divine Moments of Truth”.
Who Shpongle is
Shpongle is a psychedelic electronic music project from England that formed in 1996. The group includes Simon Posford and Raja Ram (one of three in The Infinity Project). The duo are considered to be one of the progenitors of the psybient genre — a genre combining world music with psychedelic trance and ambient. Their musical style combines traditional music from all over the world and vocals with contemporary western synthesizer-based psychedelic music. When asked to describe Shpongle's music, Posford has responded that it is "like nothing you've ever heard before." Shpongle's first track, "Vapour Rumours", was released on TIP Records' Infinite Excursions compilation in 1996. Their debut album, Are You Shpongled?, was released in 1998 on Twisted Records. On 9 September 2014, Posford confirmed beginning work on a sixth album, which was released as Codex VI on 23 October 2017. On 3 October 2017, even before the release of Codex VI, the duo announced via a Facebook video that they have begun working on their seventh studio album. Since 30 June 2017, the duo have also been releasing remasters of their previous albums, focussing on releasing special edition vinyl records. Posford is…
Biography from the Shpongle article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Shpongle, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Divine Moments of TruthAre You Shpongled? · 1998442
Nothing Is Something Worth DoingIneffable Mysteries From Shpongleland · 2009423
Hammock TherapyCodex VI · 2017424
Dorset PerceptionTales of the Inexpressible · 2001415Strange PlanetCodex VI · 2017416Once Upon the Sea of Blissful AwarenessTales of the Inexpressible · 2001397
Divine Moments of Truth - Astrix, Loud & The Lost Secret Door RemixDivine Moments of Truth (Astrix, Loud & The Lost Secret Door Remix) · 2017398StarShpongled BannerTales of the Inexpressible · 2001379
When Shall I be Free? - Remastered, 2019Nothing Lasts...but Nothing Is Lost (Remastered, 2019) · 20203710
Brain in a Fish TankMuseum of Consciousness · 201337Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Improvisations for Piano & Flute2024 · album
Carnival Of Peculiarities2021 · single
Shpongle Remixed (Cosmic Trigger Remix)2020 · album
Flux & Contemplation - Portrait of an Artist in Isolation2020 · album
Shpongle Static (Live at Ozora, 2019)2020 · albumNothing Lasts...but Nothing Is Lost (Remastered, 2019)2020 · album
No Disco2019 · single
Live at Red Rocks (2014) (Live)2019 · album
Live in London (2013) (Live)2019 · albumCodex VI2017 · albumDivine Moments of Truth (Astrix, Loud & The Lost Secret Door Remix)2017 · single
Dreamcatcher (Gms Remix)2016 · singlePost this ranking
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How many monthly Spotify listeners does Shpongle have?
Shpongle has 154,600 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Shpongle's world ranking?
Shpongle is ranked #1537 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Shpongle from?
Shpongle is from United Kingdom, where they rank #278 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Shpongle make?
Shpongle is categorised as Psytrance in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as psytrance, downtempo.
Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.