Top 3 Bass DJs: Skrillex, ILLENIUM and Borgore Lead the Fan Vote

Bass music has always been a genre decided in the crowd, not the boardroom, so it feels right that this Top 3 was settled by fan votes. Three dubstep heavyweights make the cut, and the spread between them tells a clear story about reach, loyalty and the different ways an artist can dominate a scene.

Skrillex takes #1 with 11,460 votes and a credit score of 921, and the supporting numbers explain the distance. His 22,589,357 Spotify monthly listeners and 7,664,300 Spotify followers dwarf everyone else in this ranking, and his 12,083,723 Instagram followers confirm a mainstream footprint few bass artists ever touch. Add 6,675,563 SoundCloud followers, 2,460,000 YouTube subscribers, 1,000,000 on TikTok and 89,527 on Resident Advisor, and you get an artist who is simultaneously a festival-circuit fixture — 50 festivals logged — and a streaming giant. This isn't a narrow win; it's a landslide built on breadth.

At #2, ILLENIUM lands 8,359 votes and a credit score of 858, a comfortable margin above third but a long way behind first. The engine here is streaming: 10,258,896 Spotify monthly listeners and 1,726,393 followers point to a catalog fans return to on repeat. His 1,161,902 Instagram followers and 536,000 on TikTok round out a modern, direct-to-fan presence. The emotional, melodic edge of his dubstep clearly translates into the kind of devoted listenership that shows up when it's time to vote.

Borgore claims #3 with 8,110 votes — trailing ILLENIUM by only 249 — and a credit score of 844. He's the outlier of the group in the most interesting way. His 610,265 Spotify monthly listeners are the smallest of the three, yet he commands a massive 3,805,479 SoundCloud followers, second only to Skrillex here and a reminder of where bass culture first built its community. He's also the lone non-American on the podium, repping Israel, with 28 festivals, 572,177 Instagram followers, 285,800 on TikTok and 6,723 on Resident Advisor. The gap between his streaming footprint and his vote total says something specific: his fans are loud, engaged and willing to click.

Read together, the podium maps three routes to the same destination. Skrillex wins on sheer scale across every platform. ILLENIUM converts deep streaming loyalty into votes. Borgore proves that a devoted SoundCloud-era following can still outmuscle bigger playlist numbers when it counts.

All three trade in dubstep, which underlines how central that sound remains to the wider bass family — and how much room there is beneath these three for the next wave. The tight 249-vote margin between second and third suggests this podium isn't locked forever. For now, though, the fans have spoken, and they've handed the crown to the most decorated bass artist on the board.