• Resident Advisor Releases Top 100 DJs Poll; The Anti-DJ Mag Top 100 DJs Poll

    When it comes to DJ polls, there are two very different opposite rankings for the top DJs in the world. The most controversial one, the DJ Mag Top 100, relies on fan voting to rank the top DJs in the world, which predictably has main stage heavyweights like Hardwell, Tiesto, Avicii, Armin van Buuren, Martin Garrix and others top the list. In a very different twist of events, Resident Advisor, a standard for underground dance music, has its own opinion on which the top DJs in the world are. German Steffan Berkhahn, label owner of Berlin based Innervisions Recordings and professionally known as Dixon, topped the poll for a second straight year, while others like Seth Troxler, Richie Hawtin, Tale Of Us and others trailed not far behind.

  • Find Out Where The World's Best DJs—From Calvin Harris to Afrojack to Steve Aoki—Will Be Playing New Year's Eve

    New Year's Eve is a must for Electronic Dance Music performers. Sure, some play more than 100 gigs a year, but New Year's Eve is when everyone in the country wants to be out late and having a good time. For the second year, Music Times has tried to track down as many of the world's top ranked DJ's as we can so you know where you need to be come the last night of the year/first of the next. Check out our interactive map below to see what act will be closest to you.

  • Armin van Buuren Partners With Thalmic Lab's New Myo Movement Detecting Armbands

    Live performances are changing every day with the development of brand new technologies and Dutch DJ / producer Armin van Buuren is at the forefront of that. Van Buuren has partnered with Canadian technology company Thalmic Labs on their new gesture control armband, Myo. The technology, which has been customized to his own live set up by Haute Technologies, allows Armin van Buuren to control his own lighting and stage effects hands free.

  • DJMag's Top 10 DJ's of The Past Five Years: Music Times Calculates for Dutch Domination (and Hardwell Doesn't Even Appear!)

    Just to further up the controversy, Music Times asks not who was the best DJ in the last year, but who was was the best DJ of the last five years? Our formula wasn't too complicated...we just averaged the rankings of everyone featured on the DJMag Top 100 list in the last five years. That does cause some major issues for some contestants however. Hardwell has been no. 1 for the last two years but he didn't place during 2010, suggesting a rank of at leads 101, and thereby making his mean ranking skyrocket. The name of our game is consistency.

  • Spotify and Echo Nest Indicate Dutch Listeners Strongly Prefer EDM Music Versus Other Countries...Although Not Necessarily Its Own

    It's a big week for electronic dance music news. For one, the highly hyped DJMag Top 100 DJs list just hit the web this weekend. More importantly, the Amsterdam Dance Event has occurred over the last five days in the titular city. Consider it something like a SWSW exclusively for electronic music performers, with more than 2,200 acts hitting the largest city in the Netherlands for a swinging five-say stretch. Spotify and its Insights blog took the event into consideration to see just what those wily Dutch were listening to in the lead-up to the event.

  • Hardwell Tops DJ Mag Top 100 DJs List Once Again

    If you read Music Times article on the leaked rendition of the DJMag Top 100 DJs list, you'll probably be disappointed to see the real thing: It's exactly the same (except this time nos. 71 through 100 are included as well).

  • Russian EDM Site Leaks DJ Mag Top 100 DJs List Early? Hardwell, Martin Garrix, Armin van Buuren Supposedly Place Big

    DJMag.com's annual list of the Top 100 DJs in the electronic dance music scene might be the most controversial "best of" list in music but that doesn't mean we, as fans, don't read it as soon as it comes out. It's scheduled to be announced on October 19 but, if Russian music site EDM News is honest, it's acquired the Top 100 (or at least the Top 70) early and has leaked them online.

  • Hardwell, Van Buuren, Deadmau5 and More: Where Are Your Favorite DJ's Playing on Halloween Night?

    Halloween decorations (and candy!) have been on sale in stores for a month now but it's officially October so Music Times feels comfortable discussing what you'll be doing Halloween night. Halloween is the second biggest holiday of the year for EDM (behind New Year's Eve) and you need to get on getting tickets fast if you want a spot at events helmed by the biggest DJ's in the world.

  • Disney Soundtracks Go Digital for EDM Album 'DCONSTRUCTED'

    Disney is the most recent company to buy into the burgeoning popularity and profitability of electronic dance music. The film company announced it would release the album DCONSTRUCTED, which will feature soundtrack songs from Disney films re-imagined and remixed by EDM musicians, on April 22.

  • Tomorrowland Sells Out Two Weekends Within An Hour

    Even with the threat of Tomorrowland's second weekend being cancelled, the European EDM festival moved more than 360,000 tickets to both weekends, selling out in less than an hour. Granted, that's more than twice as long as it took to sell out last year's festival, but yeah. Less than an hour, 360,000 tickets.

  • New Top 100 DJ's List Challenges Authority of DJ Mag Top 100

    The DJ Magazine Top 100 DJ's list is a go-to reference point for us at Music Times, but we understand that many fans and performers in the EDM genre don't think that list is worth jack. The problem on our end is that there's no comparable list to resort to. Until now.

  • Calvn Harris, Tiësto Highest Paid DJ's of 2013

    The increasing profitability of EDM has been a theme throughout the year in both Music Times as well as numerous financial publications. Many businessmen and promoters are looking to make a buck off the trend, but one the producers themselves are definitely cashing in, as Forbes' list of the highest paid DJ's indicates. Calvin Johnson topped the list for 2013, bringing in more than $46 million (a total that topped Jay Z's earnings for the year).
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