What DJs played on Instagram, Aug 10 to 16, 2026
Published Aug 26, 2026
The week in numbers
447 track IDs from 56 DJs, Aug 10 to 16, 2026 (UTC). 58 DJs published 746 posts and stories that week; 42% of the IDs came from stories.
The machine was back to full speed: 447 IDs from 56 DJs, and 58 DJs posting 746 posts and stories across the week. Stories came back online and carried 42 percent of the IDs.
Most played
2 DJs played Da Fonk (feat. Joni) by Mochakk this week.
- 01
2DJsnewDa Fonk (feat. Joni)
Mochakk
played by @mochakk, @wearemarcocarola
- 022DJsnew
I Think Of You (Unreleased)
Sarsh
- 03
2DJsnewGood Girl
Cloonee, Prospa & Tristan Henry
played by @prospa__, @wearemarcocarola
- 04
2DJsnewBe The One
Adam Port, SG Lewis, Keinemusik
played by @adamport, @keinemusikcrue
- 05
2DJs1I Feel Love
Donna Summer
played by @darius_syrossian, @tripodkearn
- 06
2DJsnewBRING THE BASSLINE (RADIO EDIT)
GABBS
played by @chrisstussydj, @ourgrndofficial
- 07
2DJsnewPromiscuous
George Heyden
- 08
2DJsnewBenediction (Radio Edit)
Hot Natured
played by @frankyrizardo, @lukedeandj
- 09
2DJsnewCould Heaven Ever Be Like This
Idris Muhammad
played by @lukeunabomber, @tripodkearn
- 10
2DJsnewLove Story (Tim Deluxe Remix)
Layo & Bushwacka!
played by @chrisstussydj, @ourgrndofficial
- 11
2DJsnewNo Space
Meera (NO)
played by @andmeandyou, @luchmusic
- 122DJs1
Free Your Mind
Prospa & Cloonee
- 13
2DJsnewAirwave (Radio Vocal Edit)
Rank 1
played by @chrisstussydj, @solomun
- 14
2DJsnewThis Beat Is (Peace Division Deeper Mix)
Superchumbo
played by @chrisstussydj, @ourgrndofficial
- 151DJnew
Heart's Desire
Bautista
played by @stroxler
Da Fonk by Mochakk got the widest run, 2 DJs and 7 plays. The one to watch is I Think Of You, an unreleased Sarsh record already sitting with 2 DJs. Donna Summer's I Feel Love went from 1 DJ to 2, because a classic never needs a reason.
Breakouts
7 tracks broke out this week. BRING THE BASSLINE (RADIO EDIT) by GABBS leads with 2 DJs, first seen Aug 10, 2026.
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Seven records crossed from one selector to a second. @chrisstussydj seeded two of them on the 10th, BRING THE BASSLINE and the Peace Division mix of This Beat Is. Keinemusik put their own Be The One about, and the crate-digger lane moved older records: Idris Muhammad's Could Heaven Ever Be Like This came in through @lukeunabomber and found its second selector.
Genre share
Dance leads this week with 37% of the IDs that carry a genre, down from 44%.
- Dance37%7
- Electronic21%2
- House19%5
- Pop5%
- Techno4%
- Electronica2%2
- R&B/Soul2%1
- Jazz2%1
- Other9%
74% of this week's IDs carry a genre; shares are of those.
Dance slipped to 37 percent of genre-tagged IDs from 44, and house gave up ground too, 19 against 24 last week. Electronic picked up the difference at 21. Genre reads cover 74 percent of the week.
How we count
An identification is one track matched to one post. We read what the DJ wrote in the caption, what people wrote underneath it, the audio Instagram attaches to the post, and the audio itself, and a track only counts once the evidence lines up. If a record turns up in three posts that is three identifications; the DJ number beside it counts people, not plays.
A DJ here is an account in the CrateWire catalog that we refresh on a schedule. Accounts a signed out visitor typed in once and nobody ever followed are left out of every number on this page. We only print a handle when that account has enough identified tracks to have a public tracklist of its own, so a track can have more DJs behind it than it has names next to it.
The week runs from Monday 00:00 UTC to the following Monday 00:00 UTC, and a post belongs to the week the DJ posted it, not the week we got around to reading it. A DJ added on a Friday whose back catalog we scan that night files under the weeks they actually posted in.
Stories count. They are a large share of what DJs put out and most of them are gone inside a day, so leaving them out would make every total here read low.
The numbers freeze when the report is written. Anything identified after that belongs to the week it was posted in and never gets added back into a published table, because a page whose numbers move is not a page anyone can quote.
Where a track or a genre is marked up or down, the earlier number was worked out for this report from the week of Aug 3 to 9, 2026, which has no published report of its own.
Genres come from the iTunes catalog, one per track where there is a match, and plenty of records never get one. Every share on this page is a share of the identifications that do carry a genre, and the line above the bars says how big that slice is.
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