South KoreaTOWA TEI is a Drum & Bass act from South Korea, ranked #1443 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 178,800 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #3 in South Korea and #130 in Drum & Bass among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has slipped 2% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 182K to 179K. Their tracked peak was 200,600 in Aug 24, 2026. They have 84,070 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 43/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “TECHNOVA”.
Who TOWA TEI is
Towa Tei (鄭 東和, Tei Tōwa; born September 7, 1964) is a Japanese artist, record producer, and DJ. Born in Yokohama, Japan, Towa was a member of Deee-Lite, from the US label Elektra Records in 1990, notable for their international hit single, "Groove Is In the Heart". He made his solo debut with the album Future Listening! in 1994. He has since relocated from New York to rural Nagano Prefecture in Japan. Towa's second studio album, Sound Museum (1997), became his highest charting effort at number 17 on the Oricon charts. Its single, "GBI (German Bold Italic)" featuring Kylie Minogue and Haruomi Hosono, reached number 50 and 63 in Australia and the United Kingdom, respectively. He saw continued success with 1999's Last Century Modern as its single, "Let Me Know" featuring Chara, peaked at number 34 in Japan, his highest entry. Towa has collaborated with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi, Akiko Yano, Ringo Sheena, and Arto Lindsay, among others. His concept party, "Hotel H", started in 2009 as a social spot for music industry people in Tokyo.
Biography from the TOWA TEI article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for TOWA TEI, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
TECHNOVAFUTURE LISTENING! · 1994432
APPLE (feat. RINGO SHEENA)LUCKY · 2013403
Remember! - TOWA TEI REMIXRemember! (TOWA TEI REMIX) · 2026434
ALPHA (feat. TAPRIKK SWEEZEE)SUNNY · 2011365
KASEYSuper Crooks (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series) · 2021396AMAI SEIKATSUFUTURE LISTENING! · 1994347
LET ME KNOWLAST CENTURY MODERN · 1999388A RINGLAST CENTURY MODERN · 1999369LUV CONNECTIONFUTURE LISTENING! · 19943310
GBI (GERMAN BOLD ITALIC)SOUND MUSEUM · 199836Latest releases
21 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
ZAMBIENT2026 · album
THE SOURCE (MERMAID DUB)2026 · singleRemember! (TOWA TEI REMIX)2026 · single
AH!!2025 · album
LUCKY (2024 Goh Hotoda Remaster)2024 · album
Metallic Rouge (Original Soundtrack)2024 · album
TOUCH2023 · album
ZOUNDTRACKS2023 · albumSuper Crooks (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)2021 · album
LP2021 · album
EMO2017 · album
CUTE2015 · albumPost this ranking
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How many monthly Spotify listeners does TOWA TEI have?
TOWA TEI has 178,800 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is TOWA TEI's world ranking?
TOWA TEI is ranked #1443 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is TOWA TEI from?
TOWA TEI is from South Korea, where they rank #3 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does TOWA TEI make?
TOWA TEI is categorised as Drum & Bass and Bass and House in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as shibuya-kei.
Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.