House on DJ Radar in 2026: Tech House Rules a Six-Point Race at the Top

House music is the widest battlefield on DJ Radar: 3,517 DJs currently compete on the board under the house family umbrella. At the summit, though, the story is remarkably concentrated — and it is a genuinely tight one. James Hype leads with a credit score of 910, while Oliver Heldens and Vintage Culture sit level on 904 apiece. Six points across the top three, and a dead heat for second place.

The UK's James Hype tops the table on the strength of 11,610 votes — the highest vote count among the leaders — and a streaming profile to match: 12,320,890 Spotify monthly listeners, 1,741,729 Instagram followers and 1.7 million on TikTok. His lane is tech house, and that detail matters more than any single stat.

Look down the list and a pattern jumps out: five of the top eight — James Hype, Vintage Culture, Dom Dolla, Mau P and Jamie Jones — list tech house as their main genre. Whatever house means in 2026, its competitive core on DJ Radar is the tech house sound.

Brazil's Vintage Culture embodies its global reach. Tied at 904, he pairs 6,309,436 Spotify monthly listeners with a staggering 11,788,386 Instagram followers — the largest Instagram audience in the top eight — and 253 festival appearances logged. Australia's Dom Dolla sits fourth at 901 with 11,100 votes, barely behind the podium, while the Netherlands' Mau P rounds out the tech house bloc at fifth with a 893 score and 200 festivals on record.

House has never been one thing, and the rest of the top eight proves it. Oliver Heldens, the Dutch future house standard-bearer, holds joint-second on 904 with 11,190 votes and over a million Spotify followers (1,084,623). Fred again.., filed simply under House, is sixth at 890 — yet commands the second-largest streaming audience here at 18,503,350 monthly listeners, plus 162,106 Resident Advisor followers, the biggest RA following on the list.

Jamie Jones, seventh at 887, is the underground's ambassador in this company: 74,499 RA followers, 429,839 on SoundCloud and 270 festival appearances — the most of anyone in the top eight. His streaming numbers (1,866,189 monthly listeners) are the smallest among the leaders, a reminder that DJ Radar's credit score rewards more than raw streaming scale.

And then there's Bob Sinclar. The French nu-disco and indie dance veteran closes the top eight at 885, carrying 21,843,960 Spotify monthly listeners and 1,632,831 Last.fm listeners — enduring evidence that the melodic, disco-rooted end of house still reaches an enormous audience even when the rankings tilt tech house.

Three things stand out from the data. First, tech house is the dominant dialect — it accounts for the majority of the leading names, from the UK to Brazil to Australia to the Netherlands. Second, house's leadership is genuinely international: the top eight spans the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Brazil, Australia and France. Third, there is no single path to the top. James Hype leads on votes and broad social reach; Vintage Culture on Instagram scale and festival mileage; Fred again.. and Bob Sinclar on streaming enormity; Jamie Jones on underground credibility.

With a two-way tie at 904 and only six points covering the podium, the top of the house board is as competitive as its 3,517-deep field suggests. Expect movement.