Yesterday 1001Tracklists revealed the Top 101 Producers 2021! This year marks the sixth edition of the annual ranking, rewarding the artists whose music has been played the most by DJs around the world.
This year’s rankings feature first time Brazilian winner Vintage Culture, who has been on a tear of huge releases and remixes. Previous winner David Guetta takes home second place with the continuous expansion of his Future Rave sound. Groove master Kryder comes in next at #3, his highest finish yet. 4th place belongs to Armin van Buuren, who has finished in the Top 20 every year since the creation of the rankings. And rounding out the Top 5 is rising talent John Summit, who has been on an absolute bender of releases this year.
The rankings are calculated by summing up each artist’s unique DJ support between October 1, 2020 and September 30, 2021. This year the algorithm to calculate the final positions has seen some slight adjustments, allowing one artist to support another artist a maximum of 5 times to count towards the rankings. For example, if David Guetta supported Oliver Heldens on 10 different tracks, this would count as 5 points for the rankings.
To learn more about how the rankings are calculated and which tracks and supports are eligible, visit the Top 101 Producers website.
On Wednesday the 13th of October, 1001Tracklists will host the official Top 101 Producers 2021 celebration party at Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. We’re proud to partner with ROCKI to put on this year’s ADE showcase. ROCKI is the biggest music NFT and streaming platform on Binance Smart Chain, and offers artists easy to use features to release their music as collectible music NFTs or for streaming on the blockchain.
The Top 101 Producers 2021 celebration will see many of the top finishers of the rankings perform live and receive their awards. The lineup includes ASCO, Chapter & Verse, Curbi, DONT BLINK, DubVision, GUZ, HUGEL, KREAM, Laura van Dam, Malarkey, Marc Benjamin, RetroVision, Tim Hox + some very special guests!
