United KingdomThe Orb is a Techno act from United Kingdom, ranked #1231 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 254,500 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #214 in United Kingdom and #157 in Techno among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has slipped 4% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 266K to 255K. Their tracked peak was 265,800 in Aug 17, 2026. They have 217,553 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 44/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Little Fluffy Clouds”.
Who The Orb is
The Orb are an English electronic music group founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty. Known for its psychedelic sound, the Orb developed a cult following among clubbers "coming down" from drug-induced highs. Its influential 1991 debut album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld pioneered the UK's nascent ambient house movement, while its UK chart-topping 1992 follow-up U.F.Orb represented the group's commercial peak. Beginning as ambient and dub DJs in London, the Orb's early performances were inspired by electronic artists of the 1970s, especially Brian Eno, Cluster, and Kraftwerk. The Orb has maintained its signature science fiction aesthetic despite numerous personnel changes, including the departure of Cauty and members Kris Weston, Andy Falconer, Simon Phillips, Nick Burton, and Andy Hughes. Paterson has been the only permanent member, continuing to work as the Orb with Swiss-German producer Thomas Fehlmann and later with Martin "Youth" Glover, bassist of Killing Joke. Paterson's unauthorised use of other artists' works has led to multiple disputes, most notably with Rickie Lee Jones. During its live shows in the 1990s, the Orb performed using digital audio…
Biography from the The Orb article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for The Orb, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Little Fluffy CloudsAdventures Beyond The Ultraworld · 1991522
Little Fluffy Clouds - 7" EditThe Orb - History Of The Future (Deluxe Edition) · 2013443
Toxygene - 7" EditRave Classics · 2022244Blue Room - 7" MixThe Orb - History Of The Future (Deluxe Edition) · 2013385
Golden CloudsPresents the Orbserver in the Star House · 2012366Earth (Gaia)Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld · 1991377A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld - Orbital Dance MixThe Orb - History Of The Future (Deluxe Edition) · 2013368Perpetual DawnAdventures Beyond The Ultraworld · 1991339
ToxygeneOrblivion · 19973310
U.F.OrbThe Orb · 199232Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Buddhist Hipsters2025 · album
Orboretum: The Orb Collection2024 · album
Metallic Spheres In Colour2023 · album
Yarns from the Chocolate Triangle2023 · album
Prism (Deluxe)2023 · album
Enter the Kettle2021 · album
Connecting The Dots (DJ Mix)2021 · album
The Heavens2021 · album
Abolition of the Royal Familia (Guillotine Mixes)2021 · album
Abolition of the Royal Familia2020 · album
Abolition of the Royal Familia (Deluxe)2020 · album
No Sounds Are Out of Bounds (Deluxe)2018 · albumPost this ranking
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How many monthly Spotify listeners does The Orb have?
The Orb has 254,500 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is The Orb's world ranking?
The Orb is ranked #1231 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is The Orb from?
The Orb is from United Kingdom, where they rank #214 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does The Orb make?
The Orb is categorised as Techno and House in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as idm, ambient.
Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.