The Top 100 DJs of 2026.

Born in Oldham, which pleases a Manchester house no end. He was there when British rave got its keys, carried Space Ibiza to its 2016 close, and has since rebuilt the headline set as a hybrid-live machine. The catchphrase is famous; the consistency is the real signature. Nobody in dance music is trusted by more rooms.

From Durban to a Grammy (Subconsciously, in 2022) without ever raising his voice. His Saturday residency at Hï Ibiza became the island’s most reliable pilgrimage. The restraint is the flex: space, patience, and drums that land like furniture being placed. South African house’s global standard-bearer, and nobody carries it lighter.

Gudu Records boss, fashion fixture, and the owner of 2023’s most inescapable record in “(It Goes Like) Nanana”. The fame is loud; the sets stay disciplined: Korean pop-culture swagger over proper record collecting. The walk-on is an event. The last hour is better.

Bosnian-born, Hamburg-made, Diynamic’s founder, and the patron saint of the long goodbye. His +1 night at Pacha Ibiza reduced the format to its essence: one guest, then him, then sunrise. Even a video-game cameo, he plays himself in GTA, couldn’t dent the mystique. Melancholy has never moved this well.

Born in Chicago, finished in New York, at home everywhere. Her Classic Music Company records carry the lineage; her production credits on Beyoncé’s Renaissance carried it to the biggest stage there is. She plays house music like it matters, because it does, and she was raised on the proof.

The Londoner’s Actual Life albums made small feelings arena-sized, and his 2022 Boiler Room became the decade’s most-rewatched DJ footage. With Skrillex and Four Tet he sold out Madison Square Garden on days of notice in 2023. The edits are homemade; the emotion is industrial-grade.

The KNTXT founder became the first techno act to close Tomorrowland’s main stage in 2022 and has kept the throttle open since. The brand is monochrome; the engineering is precise. She made hard techno a main-stage language without asking permission.

Hot Creations, Hot Natured, and Paradise: the DC-10 party that gave tech house a wardrobe and a waiting list. The Welshman’s sets swing where others stomp. Fifteen years at the top of a genre he half-built, and the strike rate has not dipped.

Techno since the early nineties and the founder of Music On, the Ibiza institution that made repetition a luxury good. No theatrics, no speeches: just groove maintained at a standard most engineers would envy.

&ME, Rampa and Adam Port turned a Berlin label into the world’s most in-demand sunset. The afro-house warmth travels (beach, rooftop, pyramid, wherever), and the three-hands format means the level never drops. The most copied sound of the decade so far; still done best by the originals.

Innervisions co-founder; four consecutive years voted number one in Resident Advisor’s poll. He plays like he’s fact-checking the genre.

Bronx brothers raised on house music by their father, now running Cuttin’ Headz. The happiest four hands in the booth.

Kieran Hebden moves between festival headline sets and back-room experiments without changing expression. The Madison Square Garden trio with Fred again.. and Skrillex was the loud exception.

Half of Tale Of Us; first electronic act to headline Sphere in Las Vegas. The spectacle is enormous and the ambition unembarrassed.

The Chicago-raised ex-accountant built Off The Grid and Experts Only, then headlined the Garden in 2024. Relentless, and honest about it.

Grammy-nominated, arena-sized, and still writing house records with actual jokes in them. “Saving Up” did the heavy lifting; the sets finish the job.

The Australian ex-surfer behind “Losing It”: Grammy-nominated, crowd-tested, permanently sold out. Nobody enjoys their own set more, and it’s contagious.

Solid Grooves co-founder; diagnosed with cancer in 2023, cancer-free and back for a sold-out Finsbury Park by June 2024. The city would carry him home from any gig now.

Antwerp’s Exhale boss plays techno the way sprinters breathe: controlled, then suddenly not. Festival stages obey.

The Stockholm veteran’s label built modern techno’s supply chain. The sets remain immaculate; the empire runs on time.

Michigan-raised, globally amused. House and techno with actual personality, plus side quests into food that are better than they need to be.

Kentucky-born Marea Stamper went from rave flyers to “Marea (We’ve Lost Dancing)” with Fred again.., lockdown’s unofficial anthem, and a debut album, Godspeed, in 2024.

Frankfurt’s Cocoon founder still travels with record bags and still outlasts men half his age. A one-man argument for vinyl.

The Desolat boss brought street-level swagger to minimal’s austerity and never gave it back.

Chilean-born, German-raised, and capable of stretching a groove past all reasonable limits until it becomes the point. Marathon sets as modern folklore.

Both genuinely named Adrian, both Swiss, both incapable of an untidy transition. The Siamese label carries the same watchmaker’s finish.

The Brooklyn-formed duo behind Saga, Mykonos’s most devoted ritual. Long sets, longer horizons.

Classically trained in Turkey before the booth found her. Melody handled like it costs something, because to her, it did.

The Brazilian’s open-air sets travelled every feed for a reason: card-sharp technique, open face, proper records.

Manchester-born Sam Shepherd (neuroscience doctorate, Promises with Pharoah Sanders and the LSO), and still one of the most surgical selectors alive. The house claims him with hometown pride.

The duo turned melancholy rave memory into festival main stages. The DJ sets carry the same ache at higher speed.

Tom and Ed Russell made Good Lies (2023) the sound of British dancefloors growing up without calming down.

Grammy-nominated for “Both Of Us”; holds a master’s in environmental toxicology. Plays like the good news arrived early.

Ninja Tune signee with a fabric mix to her name and a knack for house records that feel hand-sewn.

The Frenchman plays joy at festival scale and means every bar of it.

Edinburgh’s Joshua Mainnie went from producers’ favourite to everyone’s favourite on the back of When Will We Land? (2023).

The Briton behind Black Book Records builds records like furniture: functional, finished, quietly expensive.

Lukas Ruiz carried Brazilian dance music to global festival bills and kept the emotion turned up.

Eswatini-born, Coachella-approved as of 2024. The tempo is patient; the charisma is not.

Haitian-Canadian, Grammy-winning, Bubba took Best Dance/Electronic Album in 2021, and the owner of a swing signature you can identify in one bar.

The Swede’s “Opus” remains dance music’s best slow reveal.

Detroit-schooled, endlessly systematised, forever refining.

From Axis Records to orchestras, still playing the future he promised.

The Welshman’s Last Night On Earth keeps the art of patience in print.

Bedrock’s boss has out-lasted every trend he declined to follow.

On BBC Radio 1 since 1991; the Essential brand is his monument.

The Dubliner departed Radio 1 in 2021; her Before Midnight parties end when sensible people sleep.

Brownswood, Worldwide, and a lifetime of joining the dots.

The MBE is on the record; the warmth is in the room.

His Mercury Rising residency at Pikes remains an Ibiza rite.

New Jersey-raised; Spaces and Places (2022) toured the world’s booths on vinyl-thick warmth.

With Kenny Dope he wrote the genre’s reference library; Nuyorican Soul made it orchestral.

A Grammy-winning remixer who still plays like the record matters more than the fee.

The sets run long because the stories do.

His rework of Everything But The Girl’s “Missing” never left the floor.

The 2001 UK number one remains house music’s best-dressed heartbreak.

From “U Don’t Know Me” to Duck Sauce, never once po-faced.

Detroit-born Marc Kinchen made the dub mix a career.

Chicago’s Curtis Jones, twice over, Cajmere included.

Built a label empire out of San Francisco barbecues.

One of the city’s great second-generation stylists.

Chicago-born, San Francisco-formed, forever downtempo-adjacent.

KDJ and Mahogani Music keep the mystery profitable.

Chicago-raised, Detroit-sworn, entirely his own genre.

Daley Padley made melodic tech house a reliable pleasure.

Big-room house with a Geordie grin.

Solotoko’s boss writes house music that behaves beautifully.

Grammy-nominated, stadium-tested.

British house with proper pop bones.

The duo’s club records travel better than most airlines.

The remix trophy is deserved; the basslines are the reason.

Croydon’s restless one keeps choosing the interesting door.

East London’s own, 2022’s best surprise.

UKG revival, done properly, from our own city.

Singalong house with terrace-chant DNA.

The career change Scotland fully endorsed.

Hector Barbour plays euphoria with a straight face, briefly.

Jordon Alexander’s Looking For Trouble label says the quiet part loud.

Australian-born, London-based, texture-first.

UK club music’s most quietly influential hand.

The Swede’s Mirrors traded irony for feeling and won.

Vienna-born, Britain-based, reliably uplifting.

Berlin’s smiles-per-minute record holder.

The American’s HEKATE label does exactly what it threatens.

Spain’s ARTCORE boss made the crossover respectable.

Her Solamente label is the clue: she did it alone.

N:S:DA’s founder plays precision with warmth.

His own genre label, taken literally by thousands.

The Ukrainian duo carried their city onto every main stage that mattered.

Italian siblings with a taste for the enormous.

Italian brothers who understand restraint is a special effect.

The 2024 debut album confirmed what the sets implied.

Odd One Out is the label; consistency is the brand.

The Cercle set made him melodic house’s postcard.

Daniel Goldstein’s no-cameras policy built better rooms.

The Dane files memory under melody.

Soweto’s brothers took the sound global and kept the swagger local.

The xx’s quiet third turned dancefloor memory into headline art.

French-American, Ibiza-approved, properly schooled.

The German A&R’d half of modern house taste and never raised his voice.