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.
Echo Nest, the music analytics company owned by Spotify, gathered ten tracks that were "distinctive" to the Netherlands, meaning that citizens of the nation listen to the tracks at a higher ratio than the rest of the world. Understandably, half of the performers featured in the Top 10 were Dutch. More telling however was that Spotify classified nine out of the ten as EDM performers. Check out the list (with Dutch acts in bold):
01) "Koala" by Oliver Heldens
02) "Nobody to Love" by Sigma
03) "Turn Up The Speakers" by Afrojack, Martin Garrix
04) "Outlines" by Mike Mago, Dragonette
05) "Gecko (Overdrive)" by Oliver Heldens, Becky Hill
06) "Faded" by Zhu (note: No one actually knows for sure who Zhu is but the popular theory is he's from San Francisco)
07) "Gold Skies" by Sander Van Doorn, Martin Garrix, DVBBS
08) "Tremor (Sensation 2014 Anthem)" by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Martin Garrix (note: Garrix is from the Netherlands but headliner Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike is from Belgium. You may count this as a half-point if you wish).
09) "Shotgun" by Yellow Claw, Rochelle
10) "Jubel" by Klingande
All that said, the top DJs for streaming by listeners in the Netherlands aren't Dutch: Avicii (Sweden), David Guetta (France) and Calvin Harris (Scotland) come in the Top 3, respectively. Nos. 4 and 5 go to homeland heroes however, for Armin van Buuren and Afrojack respectively.
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