For most of us, DJ Mag’s Top 100 is the standard for checking out who are the biggest DJs in the industry. This year, it was Hardwell who took the top spot (whether you liked it or not.)
But there could be a new contender as to how to decide who’s big and who’s not. 
JustGo is a London based social media start up that extracts data from Facebook, Twitter, Soundcloud, YouTube and leading piracy platform Topple Track:
“(JustGo allows you to) monitor all your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, SoundCloud and YouTube stats on one page. Get the complete overview of your online profile. Measure your success and track fanbase growth by day or by month.”
According to JustGo, Hardwell is still No. 1. However, Armin slips down to No. 18 and Tiesto falls to 14. Calvin Harris and Swedish House Mafia take their places in the top 10, stealing the 2nd and 10th spot.
In total, the top 100 boast a massive 295,027,368 fans. The majority of these fans can be found on Facebook, where JustGo counted 197,342,658 fans. Through YouTube, Disclosure received the largest fan growth, although they come in at No. 22 on the Top 100 rankings.
JustGo fortify their findings with the following:
“We looked at the Top 100 DJs by taking into account the number of Total Fans as well as New Fans acquired in 2013. While Total Fans is more reflective of a DJ’s overall popularity, New Fans – as we define it – is more reflective of current excitement. Therefore, we gave Total Fans a 2:1 weighting against New Fans or 60% for Total Fans versus 30% for New Fans.”
The results are fascinating and you can find a more detailed breakdown below. But do you think that social media is important in regards to how successful a DJ is? In the past we have done an article on how Google trends coincide directly with the rise of EDM, so JustGo may be correct with their methods. Or do you think that a good old-fashioned poll is a more sensible, democratic means?
How would you determine the most successful DJs out there?
Read more at: JustGo
This is way more accurate than the DJ MAG Top 100 list
*Hardwell
this is a list i can agree with, good job Justgo
above and beyond on no 33 wtf !!!
At Least We Know All 100 DJ (*^﹏^*)But The Prodigy (=’.’=) Not A DJ
Someone needs to show this to Paris Hilton, so she can let them know they left her out of the top 5… Can you believe that? 😉 pretty accurate list, I approve!
imo, Disclosure shouldn’t rank that high. they have like 1 mega-popular song but he/she/they cant compare to the greats
Bassnectar 55… tiene que estar en los 20 primeros
Lol, as a Latino, found it funny Juan Magan is on this list.
But seriously, no GTA?! 🙁
How the hell are krewella higher than Daft Punk, DAFUQ!?
and the data shows excision at 47 and bassnectar at 55! this is way more accurate than DJ Mag’s list but both are still just based on popularity.
and the data shows excision at 47 and bassnectar at 55! this is way more accurate than DJ Mag’s list but both are still just based on popularity.
and the data shows excision at 47 and bassnectar at 55! this is way more accurate than DJ Mag’s list but both are still just based on popularity.
okayyyy.. NO. dont care how they tallied it up. No respectful poll could possibly have BASSNECTAR that far behind someone like DJ BLEND!!!!! DJ F’ING BLEND !! he doesnt even make music !!! This is more of a poll of which artists bandwagon got jumped on in the past year by the incoming EDM hipsters . ..wow ..in disbelief…bassnectar is 200000 times better than dj blend
This list is a bunch of crap!!! Why are some of the BEST dis/producers so damn low??
Daft punk, benny b, armin, laidback laidback Luke, tommy trash, bt, markus Schultz, ferry c, Wolfgang, kascade!!! And wtf makes hardwell good enough to be #1??