United KingdomThe Bug is a Bass act from United Kingdom, ranked #1881 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 96,900 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #341 in United Kingdom and #435 in Bass among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has grown 6% over the 7 weeks we have tracked them, from 91.2K to 96.9K. Their tracked peak was 110,400 in Sep 14, 2026. They have 62,287 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 37/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Skeng”.
Who The Bug is
Kevin Richard Martin, often known under his recording alias The Bug, is an English musician and music producer. Martin moved from Weymouth to London around 1990 and is now currently based in mainland Europe. He has been active for over three decades in the genres of dub, jazzcore, industrial hip hop, dancehall, and dubstep. Martin's projects include GOD, Techno Animal, Ice, Curse of the Golden Vampire, Pressure and, most recently, King Midas Sound (with poet Roger Robinson and singer/visual artist Kiki Hitomi) and The Bug vs Earth.
Biography from the The Bug article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for The Bug, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
SkengLondon Zoo · 2008402
Fuck a BitchAngels & Devils · 2014403
Jah War - Loefah RemixJah War · 2007394Poison DartLondon Zoo · 2008365
VanishingThe Bug · 2026356FallAngels & Devils · 2014367
PressureFire · 2021298Miss U - Broken MixMiss U (Broken Mix) · 2026309
Lowest Times - The Bug DubLow Times · 20262810
Vanishing - Vanished DubLadybug 1 · 202627Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Miss U (Broken Mix)2026 · singleLadybug 12026 · single
Sub Zero - Refractions (The Bug / Ghost Dubs Remixes)2026 · singleVanishing2026 · single
Too Human (The Bug Remix)2026 · single
Implosion2025 · album
Militants (The Rocket, Holloway) / Into The Mystic2025 · single
Alien Virus (West Indian Centre, Leeds)2025 · single
Ty Zhe Ne Znaesh (The Bug Remix)2025 · single
Burials / Mud2025 · single
Bury Dem2025 · single
Machines I - V2024 · albumPost this ranking
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8 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 110K in the week of Sep 14, 2026.
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The Bug vs the field
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The Bug in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does The Bug have?
The Bug has 96,900 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Oct 5, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is The Bug's world ranking?
The Bug is ranked #1881 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is The Bug from?
The Bug is from United Kingdom, where they rank #341 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does The Bug make?
The Bug is categorised as Bass in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as drone metal, grime, trip hop, dubstep.
Snapshot from the week of Oct 5, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.