The Knowledge Verdicts: Marshmello Extra Standard Than David Guetta !

Marshmello, David Guetta, Alan Walker, Calvin Harris, and The Chainsmokers are the top 5 most popular electronic artists according to Viberate.

DJ Mag has just announced the winners of their annual Top 100 DJ survey, in which David Guetta once again takes the crown for number 1 in the world. 1 DJ. Regardless of the vote, music research and analytics platform Viberate has examined the online popularity data of electronic artists to see if and how the results match.

Why data? In a sense, it is the "objective referendum". Fans around the world reward their favorite artists daily by streaming their music, watching their videos, liking their social media posts, and buying their tracks – besides casting their votes in online polls.

Viberate's advanced algorithms take into account every artist's social media and music channels, as well as year-round radio airplay. This enables an unbiased and transparent overview of how popular an artist really is.

The most important findings include:

Marshmello, David Guetta, Alan Walker, Calvin Harris, and The chain smokers are the top 5 most popular electronic artists of the past 12 months. The top 10 list is rounded off by Martin Garrix, Tiësto, Skrillex, DJ Snake, and Alok. Interestingly, the usual “crowd favorites” such as Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Afrojack and Armin van Buuren did not make it into the top 10 list.

Dance is the most popular genre. 72% of the top 100 artists are dance (EDM) artists, 10% are house artists and other genres are less represented.

Several artists took a giant leap in 2021 and entered the top 100 charts. These include Imanbek (49.), Moth and Riton (43rd or 47th), A7S (35.) and topic (32nd).

Collaborations are the way to go. Thanks to the success of tracks like “Friday” (Nightcrawlers & Riton), “Your Love” (A7S & Topic) and “Breaking Me” (A7S & Topic), the aforementioned artists jumped up to 800 places in the artist chart.

Memes work too. South African artist The kiffness 96th place thanks to his musical performances of “vibing cat”, “alugalug cat” and sea shanties that delighted the audience during the Covid-19 lockdown. The track "Alugalug Cat" alone was streamed over 60,000 times on Spotify last week.

Here is the full list of the Top 100 Electronic Artists as per Viberate:

1. Marshmello
2. David Guetta
3. Alan Walker
4. Calvin Harris
5. The chain smokers
6. Martin garrix
7. Tiësto
8. Skrillex
9. DJ snake
10. Alok
11. Major Lazer
12. Kungs
13. Kygo
14. Zedd
15. Robin Schulz
16. Galantis
17. Joel Corry
18. Armin Van Buuren
19. Steve Aoki
20. diploma
21. Alesso
22. Jonas Blue
23. Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
24. Lost frequencies
25. The living tombstone
26. NEFFEX
27. Swedish house mafia
28. Afrojack
29. R3hab
30. Disclosure
31. topic
32. Hardwell
33. Jax Jones
34. A7S
35. HOUSE
36. Regard
37. Felix Jaehn
38. TheFatRat
39. Small big
40. Ofenbach
41. Timmy Trumpet
42. Sigala
43. Moth
44. Vintage culture
45. Ill
46. Riton
47. Rudimental
48. KSHMR
49. Imanbek
50. Gigi D’Agostino
51. Gabry Ponte
52. Flume
53. Meduza
54. Sam Feldt
55. ATB
56. Purple disco machine
57. The wounderchild
58. Nicky Romero
59. Oliver Heldens
60. Don Diablo
61. Deadmau5
62. Juan Magan
63. Illenium
64. Moby
65. Axwell Ingrosso
66. Cheats
67. K-391
68. Serhat Durmus
69. Dillon Francis
70. Dynoro
71. All luxury
72. Duke Dumont
73. DEFAMATION
74. Bob Sinclar
75. VICE
76. Martin Solveig
77. Gryffin
78. Rüfüs DU SOL
79. Artik & Asti
80. Deorro
81. AronChupa
82. FISHERMAN
83. Master KG
84. Martin Jensen
85. DJ Maphorisa
86. Yellow Claw
87. Alexandra Stan
88. DVBBS
89. Pnau
90. W&W
91. Petit biscuit
92. Vice-tone
93. Ritviz
94. The kiffness
95. Caravan Palace
96. Paul Kalkbrenner
97. Sofi Tukker
98. James Blake
99. Surf Mesa
100. Showtek

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