Top 3 Melodic DJs: Anyma Edges Solomun by 90 Votes

Three artists, one lane. The top of this fan-voted melodic countdown belongs entirely to Melodic House & Techno — Anyma, Solomun and Eric Prydz all file under the same banner, yet each arrived at this ranking by a different road. And the road matters, because the margins here are thin.

Start with the headline number: 90 votes. That's the entire gap between #1 and #2. Anyma pulled 11,640 fan votes to Solomun's 11,550 — close enough that a single strong festival weekend could have flipped it. Eric Prydz sits third on 11,340, another 210 votes back. In a genre this crowded, this is a photo finish, not a runaway.

What makes the result striking is that it runs against DJ Radar's own credit score, our editorial read of catalog and craft. By that measure Solomun leads the trio at 908, with Prydz close behind at 904 and Anyma trailing on 884. In other words, the fans didn't rubber-stamp the critics — they voted for something the credit score doesn't fully capture.

Anyma's case is built on scale. His Spotify profile shows 7,229,962 monthly listeners and 981,298 followers, backed by an Instagram audience of 3,826,869. For a melodic act, that's a broad, active footprint, and it lines up with the kind of grassroots turnout that wins a vote-driven poll. The lower credit score suggests a shorter back catalog than his rivals — but the countdown is ranked on fan votes, and on that metric he simply mobilized more people.

If Anyma is momentum, Solomun is pedigree. His profile carries a festival_count of 227, the kind of touring tally that only accumulates over years of headline billings, and it shows in the numbers around him: 1,157,312 Spotify followers and a Resident Advisor following of 87,476, the deepest RA base in this group. That top-of-class credit score of 908 says the room respects the work. Falling to #2 by 90 votes isn't a knock — it's a reminder of how competitive the melodic tier has become.

Eric Prydz rounds out the podium, and his 11,340 votes come with a credit score of 904 that keeps him firmly in the conversation with Solomun. The Swede's presence here reflects a career built on production detail and live spectacle rather than a single viral surge. His follower spread runs across platforms — 1,140,696 on Instagram, 848,694 on SoundCloud — the profile of an artist whose audience follows the music from stage to release.

What this Top 3 really shows is a genre with no clear king. The credit scores rank one way, the fans rank another, and the whole thing is decided inside a 300-vote window across three of the most recognizable names in melodic house and techno. Anyma takes the crown this cycle on sheer turnout; Solomun and Prydz are close enough that the next vote could rearrange everything. For a scene often accused of settling into a comfortable canon, that's a healthy amount of doubt at the top.