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The DJ Magazine (often called DJ Mag titled) is a monthly British magazine that came on 31 January 1991 in the trade of the most prestigious trade magazines within the disc jockey scene counts.

history

The magazine is published by Thrust Publishing Ltd. in London with a circulation of around 30,000 copies. There are also separate editions in China , Bulgaria , France , Italy , Lithuania , Poland , Portugal , Spain and the Ukraine . The content is mainly devoted to electronic dance music as well as nightlife , technology and fashion .

Between 2011 and 2014 there was a German licensed edition , the content of which was expanded to include topics such as lifestyle , art and culture . It had a print run of around 10,000 and appeared on the last Friday of each month. Like the British mother sheet, it was multi-faceted and reported on national and international topics. The focus, however, was on the domestic disk jockey scene. Most recently, Boom Bang Publishing UG , based in Frankfurt am Main , was responsible for the publication of the magazine under the leadership of Alexander Fechner . However, due to declining sales and a lack of interest in advertising, sales were discontinued.

In 2018, the newly founded DJ Mag Germany GmbH , based in Weeze , resumed sales of the German-language licensed edition as a purely online medium under the direction of Arian Amedie.

DJ Mag Top 100 DJs

The magazine enjoys a lot of attention in the scene thanks to its selection of the top 100 DJs . This has been carried out every year since 1997 and in 2010 registered over 500,000 voters from 235 countries. Because of its popularity, attempts have also been made to manipulate the election. The ranking is often criticized because it only shows the popularity of the DJs, but does not say anything about their skills.

The following DJs have already been in the top 5 or at least once in the top 3 several times:

country	DJ	1990s			2000s										2010s										#1
		97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th
	Carl Cox	1	2	2	5	7th	8th	7th	11	10	11	7th	12	18th	22nd	31	45	46	59	63	74	62	53	35	1
	Paul Oakenfold	2	1	1	2	5	6th	8th	9	11	14th	12	14th	23	51	69	69	92	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
	Sasha	3	5	3	1	2	2	4th	4th	4th	7th	5	7th	13	27	63	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	Judge Jules	4th	3	4th	6th	11	7th	9	14th	15th	16	21st	32	44	18th	67	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	John Digweed	12	7th	6th	3	1	3	5	8th	6th	8th	3	9	17th	29	55	98	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	Danny Tenaglia	50	13	8th	7th	3	10	18th	40	34	58	43	47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Paul van Dyk	42	6th	5	4th	4th	4th	2	2	1	1	4th	3	5	6th	11	16	32	38	41	60	51	55	87	2
	Tiësto	-	-	-	24	6th	1	1	1	2	3	2	2	2	3	3	2	4th	5	5	5	5	6th	8th	3
	Armin van Buuren	-	-	-	-	27	5	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	3	4th	4th	3	4th	4th	5
	Ferry Corsten	-	-	77	22nd	19th	9	6th	5	5	6th	8th	6th	7th	9	18th	22nd	42	91	85	99	90	75	59	-
	Above & Beyond	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	39	19th	9	6th	4th	4th	5	5	8th	17th	25th	29	47	27	51	22nd	-
	David Guetta	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	39	31	10	5	3	2	1	4th	5	7th	6th	6th	7th	5	3	1
	deadmau5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	6th	4th	4th	5	12	16	25th	31	49	59	71	-
	Avicii	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	39	6th	3	3	6th	7th	11	28	15th	-	-
	Hardwell	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	6th	1	1	2	3	4th	3	12	2
	Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	79	38	6th	2	1	2	2	2	1	2
	Martin Garrix	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	40	4th	3	1	1	1	2	3

DJ Mag Top 100 Clubs

There is also a choice of the top 100 clubs . The election (still Top 50 clubs until 2007 ) was launched in 2005 and initially determined by selected DJs, and since 2011 also by public reader voting.

year	1.	2.	3.
2006	Fabric	the end	Turnmills
2007	Space	Fabric	Pacha
2008	Fabric	Space	Amnesia
2009	Berghain	Fabric	Space
2010	Sankeys	Fabric	Amnesia
2011	Space	Fabric	Green Valley
2012	Space	Green Valley	Pacha
2013	Green Valley	Space	Pacha
2014	Space	Green Valley	Pacha
2015	Green Valley	Space	Hakkasan
2016	Space	Green Valley	Amnesia
2017	Space	Fabric	Green Valley
2018	Green Valley	Ushuaïa	Zouk
2019	Green Valley	Echo days	Ushuaïa

Web links

• Official website (English)
• Internet presence of the German edition
• Top 100 list from 2004 (English)
• Top 100 Clubs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DJmag 2010 Review . Retrieved July 15, 2011.
2. ↑ Named, shamed and disqualified! djmag.com; Retrieved November 23, 2009.
3. ↑ DJmag Top 100 DJs 2010 Cheating Investigation . ( Memento of August 24, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) posterous.com; Retrieved July 15, 2011.
4. ↑ The major trends that could influence this year's TOP 100 CLUBS results DJ Mag , accessed on July 23, 2019
5. ↑ Vote for Space Ibiza as the “Best Global Club” at the DJ Mag Top 100 Clubs Poll. In: spaceibiza.com. 2014, archived from the original on October 20, 2016 ; accessed on October 22, 2019 (English).