Beatport Insider: Top-Selling Tracks, Artists, and Labels of 2021

Fred Again.. and The Blessed Madonna settle in with the top-selling and most-streamed track of 2021 with their “return to the dance floor” ballad, “Marea (We’ve Lost Dancing),” followed by Majestic’s viral tech house remix of “Rasputin” and the Deeper Purpose remix of Piero Pirupa’s “Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good).”

Defected continues to hold firm as the store’s number one music label, with Anjunadeep and Toolroom hot on their tail once again. In addition, Brazilian superstar Vintage Culture comes in as the top-trending act of the year, and Chicago’s dance music golden boy, John Summit, takes home the crown as Beatport’s Best Selling Artist of 2021.

Check out all of Beatport’s best-selling and top-streamed tracks, artists, and labels below!

Top 100 Best-Selling Tracks of 2021

Top 10 Most LINK-Streamed Tracks of 2021

Top 10 Best-Selling Labels of 2021

1. Defected
2. Anjunadeep
3. Toolroom
4. Ultra
5. Drumcode
6. SPINNIN’ RECORDS
7. Anjunabeats
8. Glasgow Underground
9. Hospital Records
10. Armada Music

Top 10 Most-Streamed Labels of 2021

1. Defected
2. Toolroom
3. Anjunadeep
4. Hospital Records
5. Drumcode
6. SPINNIN’ RECORDS
7. Repopulate Mars
8. RAM Records
9. Catch & Release
10. SPINNIN’ RECORDS

Top 10 Best-Selling Beatport HYPE Tracks of 2021

10 Most-Streamed Beatport HYPE Tracks of 2021

Top 10 Best-Selling Artists of 2021

1. John Summit
2. David Penn
3. ARTBAT
4. Biscits
5. Charlotte de Witte
6. CamelPhat
7. Space 92
8. Ben Böhmer
9. Cloonee
10. Break

Top 10 Most-Streamed Artists of 2021

1. David Guetta
2. John Summit
3. David Penn
4. ARTBAT
5. Tiësto
6. FISHER (OZ)
7. CamelPhat
8. Charlotte de Witte
9. Biscits
10. Joel Corry

Top Trending Artists of 2021

• Of the Top 100 artists in 2021 who had the highest percentage increase of tracks sold in the last 12 months, compared to the 12 months before.

1. Vintage Culture

2. Charlotte de Witte

3. Riva Starr

Old Gold (2021)

• The best-selling tracks of 2021 that had been released before 2010.