PEAKTIME Launches Transparent, Data-Driven Index Ranking House DJs by Real Demand
A booking index, not a streaming chart: 330 artists scored daily on 13 weighted signals, with a fully published methodology.
Electronic music is no longer a niche. The sector hit a record $15.1 billion in 2025, and electronic acts now fill 18% of global festival lineups, up from 13% in 2021. Tech house is the top-selling genre on Beatport. As the bookings and fees climb, one question gets harder to answer on instinct alone: which artists are actually in demand?
The website (thedjrankings.com) takes a quantitative approach to a question the booking world usually settles by gut. The site ranks more than 300 house and house-adjacent artists and refreshes daily, scoring each on a composite built from 13 weighted signals across a dozen industry sources, including Resident Advisor, Songkick, Beatport, 1001Tracklists, Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, Google Trends and Wikipedia. Most DJ rankings do not show their workings. This one runs on a transparent, published methodology, with no fan votes, no label submissions, and no pay-to-play.
Resident Advisor killed its DJ poll, DJ Mag’s Top 100 is mainstage-EDM fan-voting, and Beatport ranks production, not bookings. Nobody owns “booking demand.” PEAKTIME creates a high fiedlity reference for promoters, artistis, and fans alike.
“Most rankings carry some level of bias, either through pay-to-play or editorial opinion. This one is transparent, published directly on the website, and calculated strictly from credible data signals,” says Ben Faricy, the data and product specialist behind the site.
The model is built around demand over reach. The two heaviest inputs, live booking demand and a scene score, together account for 41% of the ranking, while raw streaming is deliberately kept light. Even the scene score is built from data signals against a public rubric: a Boiler Room or Cercle set, a Berghain or fabric booking, a festival closing slot, a respected label home, an Ibiza residency, an Essential Mix. The criteria are published.
“You can buy streams. You can’t buy a set closing Amnesia,” Faricy adds.
That bias shows at the top of the board. The current number one is Prospa, ahead of ANOTR and Peggy Gou, scene-driven names rather than the biggest streaming numbers. FISHER, by far the largest streaming act on the board at 19.1 million monthly listeners, sits at number seven, proof that reach alone does not lift an artist.
The model is also built to stay fair to artists with uneven data. If a signal is missing, its weight is redistributed across the signals that are present rather than counted as a zero. To stop that being gamed, every artist carries a coverage score tracking how much of the model’s weight is backed by real data. Drop below 75% coverage and the score takes a penalty of up to 20%, so an act with thin data cannot climb on the strength of one good signal.
Figures are live as of June 2026 and move daily. The full methodology and scene rubric are published at thedjrankings.com.
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