David Guetta has been crowned The World’s No. 1 DJ in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll 2025. The historic win comes 14 years after his first in 2011, which was followed by a spell of dominance in the early 2020s, which saw him take the title in 2020, 2021 and 2023. By reclaiming top spot in this year’s poll, the Frenchman has become only the third person to win five times, alongside Martin Garrix and Armin van Buuren. “I’m very honoured,” he says. “It still means a lot to me because the greatest feeling in my life still, truly, is playing new music for people and seeing their reactions.” Now more than four decades into his career, Guetta continues to operate at full speed, releasing over a single a month in the past year. 2025 has been one of his most varied too, with releases including the trap and hip-hop influenced track ‘Lucky’, with MORTEN, collaborations with Afrojack, Martin Garrix, Hypaton, Nicky Romero, Hugel, MK, Fatboy Slim, a new single with Sia, in addition to a remix for fictional K-pop group Huntr/x. “I have 50 more songs ready to go,” he says. “Everything is cycles. In the past I've made records using no samples, then I made ‘I’m Good’ and I did four years of just working with samples and now I feel like for the more pop side I want to go back to composition, acoustic instruments with electronic, and that's why I’m doing this Motown, Amy Winehouse-type of feel. But I’m also doing something with Marten Hørger, which is super, mega analogue-sounding straight four-four. The most exciting thing for me is being creative and going away from what everyone else is doing.” Also new for 2025 was his [UNVRS] residency, Galactic Circus: a supersized clubbing utopia and his most ambitious residency to date. “I could have kept on Hï Ibiza. The club is smaller, we sold out every week, and the parties were great. But when I was offered something at [UNRVS], I saw it as a big risk and challenge that I wanted to take,” he shared. Every Friday from mid-June until early October he has helmed a secret haven for “rebels and renegades” and played extended four-hour sets deep into the morning that are “full of new music and much more improvised from deep house to tech-house, just like I used to.” As for the rest of the world, they get treated to the full HD and technicolour Guetta live experience with his show, The Monolith. It sees him play in front of a towering LED structure with cutting-edge and sci-fi-inspired visuals on massive stages like the historic AlUla in Saudi Arabia and Paris’ Stade de France. “I was very scared. It’s one thing to play festivals, but selling hard tickets is not very easy. Not many DJs can do it, especially this amount.” For the first time in its history, the World’s No. 1 DJ was crowned live in Ibiza at the super club in question, [UNVRS]. David Guetta performed a two-hour headline set at the venue earlier this evening, as part of a genre-spanning bill that included Armin van Buuren, Boris Brejcha, Indira Paganotto, Jazzy and Miss Monique. New for Top 100 DJs 2025, DJ Mag partnered with Bridges for Music to launch a dedicated fundraising campaign aimed at empowering young people through music. 2024 Top 100 DJs winner Martin Garrix kicked off our fundraising campaign with a donation of £34,000 to Bridges for Music — enough to sponsor the music education of 34 students for 12 months. Attendees were also given the option to make a donation to Bridges for Music when purchasing tickets to the Top 100 DJs Awards party
The results for the Top 100 DJs 2025 poll have been announced
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