United KingdomThe Prototypes is a Drum & Bass act from United Kingdom, ranked #1515 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 159,900 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #275 in United Kingdom and #146 in Drum & Bass among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has grown 2% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 156K to 160K. They have 73,402 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 40/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Oxygen”.
Who The Prototypes is
The Prototypes is a British drum and bass project by producer Nick White. Until May 2023, it was a duo alongside fellow producer Chris Garvey. Founded in Brighton, England in 2007, they released their first singles on labels such as Formation Records and Viper Recordings, and from 2011 to 2013 were signed to Shogun Audio. They have released a number of EPs, and have received radio and live PA support from DJs such as Matrix & Futurebound. Signing exclusively to Viper Recordings in 2014, in the following months the duo released a number of promo singles for a debut album. Their resulting single, "Pale Blue Dot" ranked as Beatport's second top selling drum and bass track of the year. The track was also nominated for Best Track at the Drum & Bass Arena Awards, with The Prototypes also nominated for Best Producer, Best Music Video, and Best DJ. UKF Music called their 2015 promo single "Pop It Off" "one of the most unanimously unifying cuts in D&B of the year so far," and they officially released their debut album City of Gold on 17 May 2015. They supported the album with an international tour with performances at festivals such as Urban Art Forms and Tomorrowland, and they also…
Biography from the The Prototypes article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for The Prototypes, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
OxygenTen Thousand Feet & Rising · 2020412
Reach - The Prototypes Remix20 Years of Technique - Remix LP · 2019423
Don't Let Me GoCity of Gold (Bonus Version) · 2015414
Here with Me - feat. Modestep - The Prototypes RemixOnly in Dreams (Remixes) · 2020405ReasonTen Thousand Feet & Rising · 2020396Kill the SilenceCity of Gold (Bonus Version) · 2015387
SuffocateSuffocate / Habitation · 2011378
LightsPale Blue Dot · 2014349
Higher - The Prototypes RemixHigher (Remixes) · 20163310Pale Blue DotCity of Gold (Bonus Version) · 201534Latest releases
19 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Feed My Soul2025 · single
Faithless2024 · single
Hyperspeed2024 · single
Don't Wanna Play2024 · single
First Sun2024 · single
Unplug The Clock2023 · single
Interaction2022 · album
Ten Thousand Feet & Rising (The Remixes)2022 · album
Quantum (Drumsound & Bassline Smith Remix)2022 · single
Oxygen (Phibes Remix)2022 · single
Shadows (Black Sun Empire Remix)2022 · single
Reason (Danny Byrd Remix)2022 · singlePost this ranking
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7 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 160K in the week of Sep 28, 2026.
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How many monthly Spotify listeners does The Prototypes have?
The Prototypes has 159,900 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is The Prototypes's world ranking?
The Prototypes is ranked #1515 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is The Prototypes from?
The Prototypes is from United Kingdom, where they rank #275 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does The Prototypes make?
The Prototypes is categorised as Drum & Bass in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as drum and bass, liquid funk, drumstep.
Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.