Deep House Now: The Eight Names Leading DJ Radar's 486-Strong Board

Deep house has always been electronic music's most elastic label — a home for both after-hours purists and daytime festival anthems. On DJ Radar, the genre family is one of the deepest on the board, with 486 DJs currently ranked under the deephouse banner. At the very top, the margins are thin and the styles are anything but uniform.

Lost Frequencies (Belgium) leads the family with a credit score of 886, just ahead of Germany's Robin Schulz at 882. That four-point gap sets the tone for the whole upper tier: this is a leaderboard decided in single digits, not landslides.

Behind them, the race gets even tighter. KAYTRANADA (Canada) sits third on 873, a single point clear of Switzerland's Nora en Pure on 872. Four DJs, spanning four countries, are separated by just 14 points from first to fourth — as close a cluster as you'll find near the top of any DJ Radar genre board.

The mid-table is closer still. Gorgon City (United Kingdom) and Maddix (Netherlands) are deadlocked on 854 apiece, sharing ranks five and six. Kerri Chandler (United States) follows on 849, with CamelPhat (United Kingdom) rounding out the top eight on 841.

Credit score is DJ Radar's headline metric, but the community vote counts reveal a second, parallel contest — and the order shuffles. Maddix draws the most votes of anyone in the top eight with 11,160, edging Nora en Pure's 10,860. Robin Schulz (9,173) and KAYTRANADA (8,917) also out-poll the board's leader, Lost Frequencies, who sits on 8,652.

That divergence is worth sitting with: the DJs pulling the biggest grassroots vote totals aren't always the ones topping the score. It's a reminder that ranking here rewards more than raw popularity, and that deep house fans are an engaged, opinionated electorate.

Where the data captures touring, the picture sharpens. CamelPhat's festival count of 269 is the highest recorded among these leaders, with Maddix close behind on 255 — two acts whose presence is built as much on the main stage as on the release schedule. For the rest of the top eight, festival figures aren't listed, so any read on their live footprint would be guesswork.

The most telling thing about this leaderboard is its range. The top eight pull from Belgium, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, the UK, the Netherlands and the United States — a genuinely international spread. Nora en Pure is the one woman in the group, ranked fourth. Kerri Chandler, at seven, represents the genre's foundational American house lineage sitting shoulder to shoulder with a newer, festival-forward generation.

Deep house, in other words, isn't a single lane on DJ Radar — it's a broad church where crossover hit-makers and club-circuit specialists compete for the same points. With scores this bunched at the top, expect the order to keep shifting. Four points is nothing, and there are 486 names hungry to close the gap.