Deep House on DJ Radar: The Eight Names Defining the Sound Right Now

Deep house has always lived a double life: a radio-friendly crossover machine on one side, a club-culture institution on the other. The current DJ Radar deephouse board — 486 DJs deep — captures both halves of that identity in a single top eight.

Lost Frequencies holds the number one spot with a credit score of 886, but the margin is razor-thin: Robin Schulz sits at 883, just three points behind. The Belgian's profile is built on enormous streaming reach — 23,175,356 Spotify monthly listeners and 3,194,781 Spotify followers — plus a substantial 1,457,007 Instagram following and 709,900 on TikTok.

Schulz, though, actually out-streams him. The German's 35,164,413 Spotify monthly listeners lead the entire board, and his 2,629,832 Instagram followers and 9,173 votes make him a genuine threat to the top spot. On raw audience, this is the closest thing deep house has to a title fight.

Third-placed KAYTRANADA (873) represents a different center of gravity. The Canadian's numbers skew toward the heads: 1,554,867 Last.fm listeners — the highest on the board — 751,515 SoundCloud followers, 729,000 YouTube subscribers, and a striking 134,002 followers on Resident Advisor, more than any other DJ in this top eight. That RA figure matters; it's the platform where club culture, not casual streaming, does its counting.

Kerri Chandler, at seven with a score of 849, anchors the genre's lineage. The American's 45,418 RA followers and 1,941,094 Spotify monthly listeners show that the deep house faithful still turn out for the sound's foundational figures.

Rankings aren't only about follower counts, and the vote data proves it. Maddix, sixth with 854, drew 11,160 votes — the most of anyone in the top eight — and logged 255 festival appearances. Nora en Pure, the board's sole female-listed leader at fourth (872), pulled 10,860 votes despite more modest streaming figures (1,595,083 Spotify monthly listeners). Both out-voted the entire top three, a sign that engaged fanbases and touring presence can punch well above streaming weight on DJ Radar.

Maddix and Gorgon City are locked in a dead heat at 854, with the UK act taking fifth. Gorgon City's profile is balanced across platforms — 2,993,817 Spotify monthly listeners, 335,176 on SoundCloud, 67,663 on RA — the shape of an act equally at home on festival main stages and in club rooms.

CamelPhat rounds out the eight at 841, with 6,579,200 Spotify monthly listeners, 74,827 RA followers, and 269 festival appearances — the highest festival count on the board.

Geographically, the top eight spans Belgium, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, the UK, the Netherlands, and the United States — deep house remains a transatlantic conversation with a strong European accent, and the UK claims two of the eight slots.

Structurally, the genre's leaders split into two camps: streaming giants (Lost Frequencies, Schulz) whose melodic, vocal-forward take on the sound commands eight-figure monthly listener counts, and club-weighted names (KAYTRANADA, Chandler, Gorgon City, CamelPhat) whose RA and Last.fm followings signal deep roots in dance-floor culture. That the DJ Radar formula holds both camps within a 45-point spread — 886 at the top, 841 at eighth — suggests the genre's crossover and underground wings are, for now, in unusual balance.

With three points separating first and second and a tie in the middle of the table, the next voting cycle could reshuffle everything.