The State Of Commercial Dance Music In 2022: Men, Tech House And Aus DJs On The Rise – Trusted For Taste

1001tracklists database reveals plenty about the current state of commercial dance music in 2022.
1001tracklists, a platform where users can share setlists from concerts and shows around the world, has revealed their yearly roundup of dance music for 2022 with some not-so-surprising results. 
The reflection featured a range of categories for last year, including the top DJ supported genres, the top 10 most DJ supported tracks, the top 10 labels, the most heard tracks on the platform, the most popular tracklist, radio show as well as the top tracks by specific genre. 
At a glance, 67,498 new tracklists were added in 2022, with 7,138,552 people using the platform to discover new music throughout the year.
The top genre of 2022 was none other than tech house, with 21% of the most DJ supported tracks on the platform coming from the genre. At second place was just dance at 19%, followed by bass house and trance at 11%, house, melodic house/techno at 10%, future rave at 8% and techno all the way down at 4%. The stats are hard to read, as these genre breakdowns feel illogical, but alas, tech house comes out on top.

The number one DJ supported track of 2022 was ACRAZE’s Do It To It, which featured one of the most infectious hooks of the year over a thumping tech house beat. It was followed by James Hype & Miggy DEla Rosa’s FERRARI and Mau P’s Drugs From Amsterdam. Also in the top 10 were two Australian tracks, with FISHER and Shermanology’s It’s A Killa landing at number 6 and Dom Dolla’s Miracle Maker landing at number 7. 
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Shermanology was the only non-male artist to feature on the top 10 dance tracks as a primary artist/producer. 
The same trend prevails in the top 10 most heard tracks by users, except this time, one woman enters the mix in the form of Charlotte De Witte and Enrico Sanguiliano’s remix of The Age Of Love lands at number 4.
CHROMATIC by Chris Lake & Chris Lorenzo landed at number 1 before our very own Dom Dolla for Miracle Maker. They land ahead of Chris Lorenzo’s remix of In Da Getto by J Balvin & Skrillex. Fisher lands again on the list at number 6 for IT’S A KILLA too. 
The big EDM bros of the 2020s all took out the Top 10 Tracklists countdown too, with Martin Garrix, Hardwell, Alesso, Afrojack, Fisher, Tiësto all bulking up the list. A special shoutout to new entry to the list Fred Again.. whose viral Boiler Room set landed at number 2 behind Martin Garrix’s mainstage performance at Ultra Music Festival in Miami. 
On the top 200 tracks list, the second woman to appear sits at number 18 in the form of BLOND:ISH. The next best primary non-male artist is down at 125 with Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal’s B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All). HoneyLuv is the first and only solo non-male artist on the list, landing all the way down at 141.
You can check out the full list and state of dance music HERE. 

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