# David Guetta Source: https://www.popfiltr.com/artist-profile/david-guetta Published: 2026-08-24T23:06:44.063Z Language: en > Paris-born DJ and producer whose four-decade climb from club booths to Stade de France-scale spectacles helped make dance music mainstream and made him a five-time World's No. 1 DJ. --- Artist profile ## David Guetta Paris-born DJ and producer whose four-decade climb from club booths to Stade de France-scale spectacles helped make dance music mainstream and made him a five-time World's No. 1 DJ. ## Quick facts - **Origin:** France - **Genres:** dance, electronic, electro house, house - **Award-winning work:** When Love Takes Over (Electro Extended Remix), Revolver (David Guetta's One Love Club Remix) - **Awards:** 2 GRAMMY wins · 15 GRAMMY nominations - **Audience:** 87.7M Spotify monthly listeners, as of April 30, 2026 ![David Guetta official artist profile image](https://www.popfiltr.com/artist-profile-assets/v1/1006/53f05b77826a9f83374e2a75b25def1f4c8653e00045c47b3edf25e89db21079.jpg) *[Artist image via Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Cs0zKBU1kc0i8ypK3B9ai)* - **Spotify monthly listeners:** 87.7M (No. 10 by Spotify monthly listeners) - **TikTok tracked video views:** 42.3B (No. 76 by TikTok top-video views) - **YouTube total views:** 23.1B - **Pandora lifetime streams:** 4.7B - **Total platform audience:** 94.5M - **Spotify followers:** 27.9M (No. 76 by Spotify followers) - **YouTube subscribers:** 27.8M (No. 84 by YouTube subscribers) - **TikTok followers:** 6.7M (No. 758 by TikTok followers) Figures as of April 30, 2026. Data ## Audience, reach and discovery Figures as of April 30, 2026. ### Platform audience - **Spotify monthly listeners:** 87.7M (No. 10 by Spotify monthly listeners) - **Spotify followers:** 27.9M (No. 76 by Spotify followers) - **YouTube subscribers:** 27.8M (No. 84 by YouTube subscribers) - **Instagram followers:** 12.2M (No. 665 by Instagram followers) - **TikTok followers:** 6.7M (No. 758 by TikTok followers) - **Deezer fans:** 19.9M (No. 3 for Deezer fans) - **Twitch followers:** 17.2K - **Pandora 28-day listeners:** 1.2M ### Consumption and discovery - **YouTube total views:** 23.1B - **YouTube daily views:** 8M - **YouTube monthly views:** 203.8M - **TikTok likes:** 63.4M (No. 1840 for TikTok likes) - **TikTok tracked video views:** 42.3B (No. 76 by TikTok top-video views) - **TikTok track posts:** 32.4M (No. 112 for TikTok track posts) - **Pandora lifetime streams:** 4.7B - **Shazams:** 390.2M - **Genius pageviews:** 10.2M ### Playlist footprint - **Spotify playlist reach:** 913.6M - **Spotify editorial playlist reach:** 245.7M - **Spotify playlists:** 2.5M - **Spotify editorial playlists:** 1.8K - **Apple Music playlists:** 3.1K - **Apple Music editorial playlists:** 948 - **Deezer playlists:** 1.8K - **Deezer editorial playlists:** 299 - **YouTube playlists:** 934 - **YouTube editorial playlists:** 145 ### Top listener markets Leading cities by Spotify monthly listeners. | Rank | City | Listeners | | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | London GB | 1.3M | | 2 | Mexico City MX | 1.3M | | 3 | São Paulo BR | 1.1M | | 4 | Sydney AU | 915.4K | | 5 | Frankfurt am Main DE | 861.9K | Biography ## David Guetta: From Paris Clubs to Stadium Monoliths ### Paris Club Foundations Pierre David Guetta was born on November 7, 1967, in Paris and began spinning records professionally in the city's clubs during the late 1980s, holding early residencies that made him a fixture of the French scene. In the early 1990s he founded Gum Productions and issued Up & Away in 1994 with American vocalist Robert Owens, an early signal of the vocal-house direction that would define his career. With his then-wife Cathy he launched the F*** Me I'm Famous party brand in Ibiza in 2001, and the albums Just a Little More Love (2002) with singer Chris Willis and Pop Life (2007) built a substantial European following years before American radio knew his name. ### One Love and the Great Crossover When Love Takes Over, his 2009 single with former Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland, became the template: piano-house drama beneath a proven pop voice. One Love added Sexy Bitch with Akon, and Guetta co-produced Black Eyed Peas' I Gotta Feeling, one of the decade's best-selling downloads. The formula won him his first Grammy, Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical, for the When Love Takes Over electro extended remix at the February 2010 ceremony. Nothing But The Beat (2011) scaled the model worldwide through Titanium with Sia, Without You with Usher, and Turn Me On with Nicki Minaj, and a second Grammy followed at the 2011 ceremony for his One Love Club remix of Madonna's Revolver, shared with Afrojack. Critics debated whether DJ-as-frontman billing diluted dance culture, but the economics were undeniable: producers now sold arenas. ### Reinvention Between Eras Listen (2014) and 7 (2018) kept him on pop radio with Hey Mama and Say My Name, the latter album gathering collaborators such as Sia, Bebe Rexha, Anne-Marie, and J Balvin into a double-album survey of his range. He protected his club standing through Jack Back, an alias reserved for house releases, and through Future Rave, a harder-edged project developed with Danish producer MORTEN from 2019. During pandemic lockdowns his streamed sets, including one staged atop the Louvre, kept him visible when clubs closed. DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs poll crowned him the world's number one in 2011 and again in 2020, 2021, and 2023, evidence of a second act few expected after the initial EDM wave receded. His catalogue's durability showed up in streaming as well: label-issued biographies credit tracks such as Hey Mama, Titanium, and I'm Good (Blue) with multi-billion-stream totals, an unusual plateau for dance repertoire. ### Late-Career Commercial Peak I'm Good (Blue), his 2022 single with Bebe Rexha built on Eiffel 65's Blue, became a generational earworm, topping US pop and dance radio formats and accumulating billions of streams, and earned a Best Dance/Electronic Recording nomination at the 2023 Grammys. Baby Don't Hurt Me with Anne-Marie and Coi Leray followed with another nomination a year later. A steady 2024-2025 release cadence produced I Don't Wanna Wait with OneRepublic, Supernova Love with K-pop group IVE, Forever Young with Ava Max and Alphaville, which gave Guetta a record seventeenth number one on Billboard's Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, Beautiful People with Sia in March 2025, and Lucky with MORTEN, alongside a Grammy-nominated remix of HUNTR/X's Golden; by December 2025 he had become the first artist with twenty Dance/Mix Show Airplay number ones, including a record four in 2025 alone. Per the Recording Academy he now holds two wins from fifteen nominations. The volume has been deliberate. In the year before his 2025 poll victory DJ Mag noted he had released more than a single per month, and label biographies credit I Don't Wanna Wait alone with more than 900 million streams. Few artists of any genre have sustained this output across four decades, let alone while topping public polls originally dominated by a far younger generation of DJs. ### Fifth Crown, Monolith Scale, and 2026 Momentum On October 1, 2025, DJ Mag named Guetta the World's No. 1 DJ for a fifth time, matching Martin Garrix and Armin van Buuren's record of five poll victories, with results announced live at the newly opened UNVRS venue in Ibiza. His Galactic Circus residency ran there from June through October 2025, complemented by a Las Vegas residency at LIV Beach. His touring Monolith production, built around a monumental LED centerpiece, carried him from Saudi Arabia's AlUla to Paris's Stade de France, and 2026 releases included Save Me Tonight with Jennifer Lopez and Human with Third Party and John Martin. More than four decades after his first Paris sets, Guetta remains among the few dance artists whose commercial center of gravity has never fully shifted away. Selected moments ## Career highlights 1. 2001 **F*** Me I'm Famous launches** The Ibiza party brand begun with Cathy Guetta became one of dance music's most recognizable institutions. 2. 2009 **One Love crossover** When Love Takes Over with Kelly Rowland and co-production on I Gotta Feeling pushed DJ-led records onto global pop radio. 3. 2010 **First Grammy win** Won Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical, for When Love Takes Over at the 52nd Grammy Awards. 4. 2011 **Titanium and a second Grammy** Nothing But The Beat's Sia collaboration became a permanent anthem while his Revolver remix won another Grammy, shared with Afrojack. 5. 2022 **I'm Good (Blue)** The Bebe Rexha single topped US pop and dance formats and earned a Best Dance/Electronic Recording nomination. 6. 2024 **Record seventeenth dance-radio No. 1** Forever Young with Ava Max and Alphaville topped Billboard's Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, his record-setting seventeenth title there; by December 2025 he had become the first artist with twenty Dance/Mix Show Airplay number ones, including a record four in 2025 alone. 7. 2025 **Fifth DJ Mag crown** Named the World's No. 1 DJ on October 1, 2025, tying Martin Garrix and Armin van Buuren for the most Top 100 DJs poll wins. 8. 2026 **Monolith at scale** The touring Monolith production carried him from AlUla to Paris's Stade de France as new singles with Bebe Rexha and Third Party kept his release pace going. Recognition ## Major Awards and Honors Per the Recording Academy, Guetta has won two Grammy Awards, both in the Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical category, from fifteen career nominations. DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs poll has named him the world's number one five times, in 2011, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2025, a jointly held record. - **GRAMMY wins:** 2 - **GRAMMY nominations:** 15 - **Top 100 DJs No. 1 titles:** 5 | Year | Award | Category | Work | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2010 | GRAMMY Awards | Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical Winner | When Love Takes Over (Electro Extended Remix) | | 2011 | GRAMMY Awards | Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical Winner | Revolver (David Guetta's One Love Club Remix) | | 2023 | GRAMMY Awards | Best Dance/Electronic Recording Nominee | I'm Good (Blue) | | 2025 | GRAMMY Awards | Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical Nominee | A Bar Song (Tipsy) [Remix] | | 2025 | DJ Mag Top 100 DJs | The World's No. 1 DJ Winner | | | 2026 | GRAMMY Awards | Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical Nominee | Golden - David Guetta REM/X | Sources - [GRAMMY.com - David Guetta awards history ↗](https://www.grammy.com/artists/david-guetta) - [Music-News - Guetta named World's No. 1 DJ for fifth time as DJ Mag announces Top 100 DJs 2025 results ↗](https://www.music-news.com/news/UK/184592/David-Guetta-revealed-as-The-World-s-No-1-as-DJ-Mag-announces-results-of-Top-100-DJs-2025) - [Billboard - Guetta becomes first artist with 20 No. 1s on Dance/Mix Show Airplay ↗](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/david-guetta-1st-artist-20-number-1s-dance-mix-show-airplay-1236131145/) - [Billboard - Forever Young tops Dance/Mix Show Airplay for record 17th No. 1 ↗](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/david-guetta-alphaville-ava-max-forever-young-number-one-dance-mix-show-airplay-chart-1235874357/) - [NME - Sia and David Guetta reunite on Beautiful People ↗](https://www.nme.com/news/music/listen-to-sia-and-david-guettas-euphoric-new-single-beautiful-people-3844456) - [Rave Jungle - Guetta, Third Party, John Martin release Human ↗](https://www.ravejungle.com/2026/07/07/david-guetta-third-party-john-martin-human-tomorrowland-music/)