Every year, the race to be in the DJ Mag Top 100 culminates in a list that never seems to satisfy anyone, yet is still used to define the “who’s who” of dance music. Now we have an alternative to the controversial list, thanks to London startup JustGo and content monitoring and protection site ToppleTrack. Tracking data from Facebook, Soundcloud, Instagram, Twitter, and every other imaginable social media medium, they’ve managed to re-rank the top 100 DJs based purely on organic popularity.
[quote style=”1″ author=”JustGo”]We looked at the Top 100 DJs by taking into account the number of Total Fans as well as New Fans acquired in 2013. While Total Fans is more reflective of a DJ’s overall popularity, New Fans – as we define it – is more reflective of current excitement. Therefore, we gave Total Fans a 2:1 weighting against New Fans or 60% for Total Fans versus 30% for New Fans.[/quote]
While it’s a list that can of course be biased towards artists with huge built-in followings (i.e. deadmau5, Skrillex, etc.), it also accounts for other factors like growth and new fans. All that being so, Hardwell still occupies the #1 spot, as both the most popular and most pirated artist in the industry. Check out the rest below, and let us know what you think! Has social media given us a better list than the DJ Mag iteration?
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