Top 10 Deep House DJs: Nora en Pure Edges Maddix by 212 Votes

Fan votes measure something a streaming dashboard can't: who people will actually go out of their way to back. This deep house ranking makes the point bluntly. The artist with the largest Spotify, YouTube and Instagram audiences in the field finishes third. The top spot goes to a DJ who doesn't lead the Top 10 on a single platform metric.

Switzerland's Nora en Pure leads with 11,227 votes, ahead of the Netherlands' Maddix on 11,015. The margin is 212 votes. That's close at the top, but what happens directly behind them is what defines this chart.

Nora en Pure's profile is balanced rather than outsized: 1,507,561 Spotify monthly listeners, 467,000 YouTube subscribers, 460,487 Instagram followers, 289,698 SoundCloud followers and a credit score of 913, second only to Robin Schulz's in this Top 10. The platform numbers are solid. The votes are what put Nora en Pure first.

Maddix arrives with a festival count of 255, 568,009 Instagram followers and a credit score of 895. On votes, nobody below comes close to this pair.

Robin Schulz finishes third on 9,211 votes, 1,804 behind Maddix. For context, the entire spread from third place to tenth is 1,472 votes. The top two are running their own race, and everyone else is in another.

That makes Germany's Robin Schulz the most striking placement here. The credit score of 918 is the highest in the Top 10. So are the 25,747,947 Spotify monthly listeners, 3,497,509 Spotify followers, 3,800,000 YouTube subscribers and 2,275,756 Instagram followers. Reach on that scale earns a podium spot, but not the vote lead.

Canada's KAYTRANADA takes fourth on 8,941 votes with a profile built a different way. It has the most Last.fm listeners in the Top 10 (1,554,867), the largest SoundCloud following (751,515) and the most Resident Advisor followers (134,002). Those platforms are tied to dedicated listening and club culture rather than passive playlist reach, and KAYTRANADA leads on all three.

Belgium's Lost Frequencies sits fifth on 8,683 votes, with a credit score of 910, 21,071,535 Spotify monthly listeners and 708,100 TikTok followers. That's the second-largest Spotify monthly audience on the list, yet it lands one place behind KAYTRANADA on votes.

The closest contest anywhere on the chart is for sixth. CamelPhat, representing the United Kingdom, finishes on 8,309 votes. Imanbek, representing Kazakhstan, finishes on 8,303. Six votes separate them, so this one genuinely is razor-thin.

CamelPhat's case rests on breadth: a festival count of 269, 74,827 Resident Advisor followers and a credit score of 901. Imanbek gets within touching distance with a credit score of 852, the lowest in the Top 10. That's a clear reminder that fan votes and credit score measure different things.

Gorgon City, the second United Kingdom entry, takes eighth with 8,008 votes. Behind that are a credit score of 898, 335,176 SoundCloud followers, 67,663 Resident Advisor followers and 19,433 Mixcloud followers, second only to Robin Schulz's 43,025 there.

France's Kungs (7,916 votes) and Italy's MEDUZA (7,739) close out the list. Both have seven-figure YouTube audiences: 1,020,000 and 1,530,000 respectively. MEDUZA also posts 11,454,149 Spotify monthly listeners, the third-largest figure in this Top 10, plus 471,000 TikTok followers.

Nine countries are represented, and the United Kingdom is the only one that appears twice. More telling is how little the vote order tracks anything else. The top credit score finishes third, the lowest finishes seventh, and the winner leads on no individual platform.

In deep house, at least by this measure, fans aren't voting for scale. They're voting for allegiance, and right now that allegiance tilts toward Nora en Pure by 212 votes.