SETTWOR launched Ledgertone, an independent ranking of artists in two genres, Phonk and Brazilian Phonk. Artists are sorted by the number of listeners they had on Pandora over the last 28 days.[1]
According to the project, it began with a small observation. SETTWOR noticed that some phonk artists had fewer listeners on Pandora than he did. He wanted to check, but found no combined data, so he recounted the numbers by hand, artist by artist. Later he decided to build a site where such data could be stored and checked again.[2]
Every figure is taken manually from the artist’s Pandora profile. Before publication, the counter is verified. It is the number of listeners for the last 28 days, rounded the way Pandora shows it. The official Pandora API is not used.
The ranking does not update itself. It is a set of dated snapshots, and each one has a permanent address in the form #genre-YYYY-MM-DD. Older snapshots stay available. The site follows the top 100 of each genre. Other artists remain in the data, but they are not updated and sit on a separate page. If an artist’s genre is not confirmed, the table shows a red mark.
The first snapshot is dated October 25, 2026. For Phonk, it lists the top 100 out of 2,623 artists. Kordhell is first with 164,242 listeners, followed by Ariis with 120,872, DVRST with 120,374, SXMPRA with 117,494, and Ogryzek with 64,521.
SETTWOR runs the project himself, and he is in the ranking. In the October 25 snapshot he is 13th with 24,459 listeners. The site says everyone, including him, is placed by one rule: the number of listeners in the snapshot. Ledgertone is not affiliated with Pandora or Spotify. The names belong to their owners, and artist images are loaded from Spotify servers. Mistakes can be reported to ledgertonehq@gmail.com.
