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

Deep house occupies a strange and enviable position in electronic music: it is at once a radio-friendly streaming juggernaut and a genre with genuine underground roots. The current DJ Radar deephouse board — 486 DJs deep — captures that tension perfectly. Its top eight is a study in how many different ways an artist can own the same sound.

At number one sits Lost Frequencies of Belgium, with a credit score of 884 built on 8,652 votes. The numbers behind that rank are enormous: 23,175,356 Spotify monthly listeners and 3,194,781 Spotify followers, plus 1,457,007 Instagram followers and 708,700 on TikTok. This is deep house at pop scale.

Germany's Robin Schulz trails by just five points at 879 — and actually out-streams the leader, with 35,164,413 Spotify monthly listeners, the largest figure anywhere on this list. He also collected more votes (9,173) and commands 2,629,832 Instagram followers alongside 89 festival appearances. The gap between first and second here is razor-thin.

Third-ranked KAYTRANADA (Canada, credit score 870, 8,917 votes) represents a different center of gravity. His 8,628,070 Spotify monthly listeners are dwarfed by the two above him, but his 134,002 Resident Advisor followers are the most of any DJ in the top eight — a clear signal of where his audience lives. Add 751,515 SoundCloud followers and 729,000 YouTube subscribers, and you get a profile built on heads, not just playlists.

The purist lane runs deeper still. At number seven, Kerri Chandler of the United States (credit score 846) is the board's living link to deep house's foundations, holding 1,941,094 Spotify monthly listeners and 162 festival dates. That an artist of his lineage sits alongside streaming-era stars says everything about how broad this genre family has become.

If streaming defines the top two, touring defines the middle of the board. Switzerland's Nora en Pure — the only woman in the top eight — ranks fourth with a credit score of 867 and the second-highest vote count on the list at 10,860, backed by 179 festival appearances. The UK's Gorgon City (fifth, 850) have played 169 festivals; CamelPhat (eighth, 835) top everyone with 269, and pull 6,579,200 Spotify monthly listeners plus 74,827 RA followers.

Then there's the Netherlands' Maddix, tied with Gorgon City at 850 but sixth on the board. His case for a higher rank is loud: 11,160 votes — the most of anyone in the top eight — and a staggering 255 festival dates, alongside 4,520,271 Spotify monthly listeners.

Geographically, this is a European story with North American accents: Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, two UK entries, plus Canada and the United States. Sonically, the spread is even wider. Deep house in 2026 stretches from festival main stages to Resident Advisor's club listings, and the DJ Radar rankings reward both — credit scores here reflect votes and reach across Spotify, SoundCloud, Instagram, RA and beyond.

The takeaway: no single metric crowns a deep house leader anymore. Lost Frequencies wins on the aggregate, Robin Schulz on raw streams, KAYTRANADA on underground devotion, Nora en Pure and Maddix on fan votes and relentless touring, Kerri Chandler on legacy. With just 49 points separating first from eighth, and 486 DJs pushing from below, this is one of the most contested boards on DJ Radar — and the healthiest sign yet that deep house's twin identities aren't splitting the genre, they're powering it.