How has it been a whole year since we last announced the results of our annual Top 100 DJs poll? Time flies when you’re in the whirlwind of dance music culture, that’s how. This edition saw your votes coming in from around the globe, including a few places you might not expect — Northern Mariana Islands, for instance, and Svalbard & Jan Mayen, and (we kid you not) Vatican City. Who knew the home of the Pope was a hotbed of club culture?
But we digress. This year’s edition of Top 100 DJs sees the return of Martin Garrix to the pinnacle spot, a placing he’s held for five of the past nine years — which means he’s tied Armin van Buuren in years spent at the apex. Big ups to the Dutch superstar — well deserved. Elsewhere, there are plenty of familiar names on this year’s list, but the ever-churning world of dance music has also brought plenty of newcomers to the Top 100 — congratulations all around!
And now for some other news. This is the final monthly edition of DJ Mag North America, as we’re reimagining the magazine as a heavyweight quarterly edition for 2025. Essentially, the flagship UK mag is subsuming the North American mag to become a single global product, published every three months. We’ll be tripling the distribution, upping the paper quality, and giving the content a refresh to fit the new frequency and the times we live in. Each mag will feature three cover stars, and there’ll be more of the long-form, in-depth features about the culture we live in and love.
Finally, it’s been an honor to serve as the editor of the North American edition over the past five years, but neither I nor deputy North American editor Megan Venzin are going anywhere — you’ll still be seeing our bylines in those quarterly editions and on the DJ Mag website. The music goes on forever, and so do we.
Bruce Tantum
Editor