The State of Electronic Music
One number decides everything on the DJ INDEX — monthly Spotify listeners — and measured across 4,407 acts it draws a clear picture of the scene: how top-heavy it is, which sound and which country carry it, and who is climbing fastest. Every figure below is from the latest weekly snapshot and free to cite with a link back.
A top-heavy industry
Attention pools at the very top — the defining feature of streaming-era music.
The top 1% of tracked acts — just 45 DJs — pull 37% of all monthly listeners. The ten biggest alone hold 16%. The median tracked act sits at 57.6K — a fraction of the 86.2M the leader commands.
Which sound is biggest in 2026
Combined monthly listeners per scene. Acts span more than one scene, so these overlap by design — read it as power, not market share.
Where the listeners are
The 15 biggest countries by combined monthly listeners of the acts based there.
The names that define the moment
Figures are from the DJ INDEX weekly snapshot (2026) and free to reuse with attribution. Please credit DJ INDEX — The State of Electronic Music and link to dj-index.com.
Common questions
- How many DJs are there and how big is electronic music on Spotify?
- The DJ INDEX tracks 4,407 DJs and electronic acts with 3,353,230,097 combined monthly Spotify listeners across 81 countries, as of the latest weekly snapshot in 2026.
- How concentrated is the electronic music industry?
- Highly. The top 1% of tracked acts (45) account for 37% of all monthly listeners, and the 10 biggest alone hold 16%. Only 531 acts are above one million monthly listeners.
- Which genre and country dominate electronic music in 2026?
- House leads by combined monthly listeners, and United Kingdom is the biggest country by the same measure.