What DJs played on Instagram, Aug 24 to 30, 2026
Published Sep 8, 2026
The week in numbers
1074 track IDs from 103 DJs, Aug 24 to 30, 2026 (UTC). 111 DJs published 1365 posts and stories that week; 42% of the IDs came from stories.
CrateWire recorded 1,074 identifications across 814 distinct tracks from 103 DJ profiles. The sample covers 1,365 posts and stories from 111 posting profiles, with at least one identification in 758 posts. These are counts from the monitored sample, not a census of what every DJ played.
Most played
4 DJs played Show Me Love by Robin S. this week, up from 1 the week before.
played by @captainwallop, @frankyrizardo, @housemusic.us, @ourgrndofficial
played by @cactusandcamel, @housemusic.us, @ourgrndofficial
played by @lockymusic_, @lukedeandj, @ruzeuk
played by @hugelthug, @nicolassasson
played by @1001tracklists, @housemusic.us
played by @housemusic.us, @hugelthug
played by @1001tracklists, @ourgrndofficial
played by @francismercier, @housemusic.us
played by @1001tracklists, @maxdean
played by @frankyrizardo, @housemusic.us
played by @1001tracklists, @solomun
played by @1001tracklists, @solomun
played by @lockymusic_, @mohamedaoun.symphony
played by @boysnoize, @funktribu
played by @lockymusic_, @maxdean
Robin S. leads with "Show Me Love", appearing across 4 DJ profiles compared with 1 in the previous report. "Prophecy" by Anyma, 19:26 & Baset and "This Beat Is (Peace Division Deeper Mix)" by Superchumbo each appear across 3 profiles. The ranking measures distinct profiles rather than repeat sightings.
Breakouts
10 tracks broke out this week. Prophecy by Anyma, 19:26 & Baset leads with 3 DJs, first seen Aug 28, 2026.
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"Prophecy" appears across 3 DJ profiles with 5 sightings. Its earliest observation in the monitored data comes from the @ourgrndofficial profile. Viot's "Cardio" appears across 2 profiles with 7 sightings. These recently first observed tracks now appear across multiple monitored profiles; an earliest observation here does not establish who played a track first elsewhere.
Genre share
Dance leads this week with 40% of the IDs that carry a genre, down from 45%.
- Dance40%5
- Electronic17%3
- House16%2
- Techno10%6
- Pop5%
- Alternative2%1
- Hip-Hop/Rap1%1
- Trance1%1
- Other9%
59% of this week's IDs carry a genre; shares are of those.
Dance accounts for 40% of genre-tagged identifications, followed by Electronic at 17% and House at 16%. Techno reaches 10%, compared with 4% in the previous report. Genre tags cover 59% of all identifications, so these shares describe the tagged subset.
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 is the one the published report for Aug 17 to 23, 2026 shows.
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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