David Guetta

From:Paris, France

DJ style:Future Rave

Best known for:F*** Me I’m Famous!

David Guetta is good, yeah, he’s feeling alright. Well, more than alright if we’re being honest, because 2023 marks the year this chart-topping producer reclaims the number one spot — the fourth time he’s headed up the poll. The French artist assures us that the thrill of victory isn’t lost on him.

“It’s incredible! It’s wonderful!” he says of clinching the coveted ranking, before elaborating on his emotions. “It’s great because I feel like every time I’m on the top of the Top 100, it’s for a different reason. You know, the two previous times were probably thanks to Future Rave,” he says of the concept he launched in 2020 alongside Danish producer, MORTEN. “This time is probably thanks to ‘I’m Good’ and those big crossover records. I love that I can express different feelings in different ways.”

Indeed, Guetta boasts an expansive career, the success of which can be attributed as much to his studio talents as his versatility. A master of straddling scenes, Guetta’s decades-spanning reign as the king of dance music has seen him float between the radio-realms and the underground’s outskirts with relative ease. A DJ from age 14, he eventually established himself as a house producer with an alternative skew, amassing fans in his native Paris before garnering attention

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Jay Hardway

From:Drunen, The Netherlands

DJ style:“House / melodic / main stage.”

Best known for:“Tracks like ‘Electric Elephants’, ‘Wizard’ with Martin Garrix and my melodies.”

It’s been just over a decade since main stage mainstay and EDM maestro Jay Hardway burst onto the scene via his Martin Garrix collab ‘Registration Code’, a tune that set him on the path to becoming a regular headliner at legendary clubs and global events like Tomorrowland, Pacha and EDC New York, AMF, Mysteryland and Omnia Las Vegas.

Becoming a father last year has meant Hardway has been focusing on maintaining that all-important work/life balance: “In my personal life I made sure to spend a lot of time with my family and it’s been amazing being a father. I still love doing shows worldwide, but I’ve made sure to plan my tours in such a way that I’m not on the road 24/7.”

It’s an approach that’s clearly working as 2023 has seen the Dutch DJ/producer continue to deliver high-impact dancefloor gold, including his big Spinnin’ Records collab with Tujamo featuring Bay-C ‘Energy’,high-drama Emo-DM tear-jerker‘Lost Souls’with Jeffrey Sutorius on Revealed, and fresh vocal track ‘On Fire’ featuring Nadia Gattas on Rave Culture, with Hardway’s solo releases like ‘The Sound’ and ‘Red Alert’ all picking up strong DJ support too.

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