House Rules: Inside DJ Radar's Tech House Takeover

House is not a niche on DJ Radar. It is the terrain. With 3,517 DJs currently on the board, the genre family spans everything from peak-time tech house to nu-disco — and the top of the table tells a clear story about where the sound's centre of gravity sits in 2026.

Of the eight leaders, five list tech house as their main genre: James Hype, Vintage Culture, Dom Dolla, Mau P and Jamie Jones. Future house (Oliver Heldens), straight-up house (Fred again..) and nu-disco/indie dance (Bob Sinclar) round out the picture, but the message is unambiguous — the driving, bass-forward tech house template is what the scene's biggest names are built on right now.

The United Kingdom's James Hype holds No. 1 with a credit score of 910 on 11,610 votes — the largest vote haul among the leaders. Behind him, it tightens dramatically: Oliver Heldens and Vintage Culture are tied at 904, separated only by votes (11,190 to 8,519), and Dom Dolla sits at 901. That is a nine-point spread across the entire top four — a race that could reorder with a single strong campaign.

Hype's case is broad-based: 12,320,890 Spotify monthly listeners, 1,741,729 Instagram followers and 1,700,000 on TikTok. Heldens, the Netherlands' future house standard-bearer, counters with 1,084,623 Spotify followers and 52,112 on Mixcloud — a platform where he leads this entire group. Brazil's Vintage Culture brings 6,309,436 monthly listeners, 2,097,980 Spotify followers and a festival count of 253, one of the heaviest touring footprints on the board.

Australia's Dom Dolla (901, 11,100 votes) and the Netherlands' Mau P (893, 10,890 votes) confirm tech house's global reach — Mau P pairs 4,549,901 monthly listeners with 200 logged festival appearances. Notably, both out-poll several artists ranked above and below them, suggesting engaged fanbases punching at the leaders.

At No. 6, Fred again.. is the streaming outlier of the group: 18,503,350 Spotify monthly listeners, 2,672,587 Spotify followers, 4,515,697 on Instagram and 162,106 followers on Resident Advisor — by far the largest RA following among the leaders, a signal of deep credibility with the club-going core even as the credit score (890) trails the tech house pack.

Jamie Jones, at No. 7 with 887, is the scene's underground anchor. His numbers skew toward the heads: 429,839 SoundCloud followers, 74,499 on RA, 207,000 YouTube subscribers and a festival count of 270 — the highest logged in this group. Streaming is more modest at 1,866,189 monthly listeners, but longevity and circuit presence are doing the work.

France's Bob Sinclar closes the leaders at No. 8 (885, 8,952 votes) with a profile that reads differently from everyone else's: 21,843,960 Spotify monthly listeners and 1,632,831 Last.fm listeners, numbers that reflect a catalogue with decades of crossover reach, filed under nu-disco/indie dance rather than the tech house mainstream.

Three things stand out. First, tech house is the lingua franca — the UK, Brazil, Australia and the Netherlands all place tech house artists in the top five. Second, the leaderboard rewards breadth: the highest scores belong to artists strong across streaming, socials and voting simultaneously, not just one channel. Third, there is room for more than one definition of house — from Jamie Jones's RA-and-SoundCloud constituency to Fred again..'s streaming enormity to Sinclar's disco-rooted longevity.

With six credit points separating first from third, the only safe prediction is that this table will not sit still.