House music charts from the DJ booth
A monthly DJ chart for house music
Jack Your Body shows the new house music DJs actually play. Every month we go through the tracklists of hundreds of radio shows and the charts DJs publish themselves, and count which records turn up again and again. A track only makes the chart when at least two DJs play or chart it.
Store bestsellers and paid promotion play no part. What counts is what ends up in a DJ's bag and then on the decks.
Track IDs from the record bag
Heard a track on the radio or in a DJ mix and still need the ID? Every entry lists artist and title and the shows that played it, so you can name it, preview it and buy it. Each month adds new track IDs to the archive, from deep cuts to the records everybody is suddenly playing.
Deep house, classic house, disco
House is house. Deep house, Chicago house, soulful, jackin and leftfield house share the list with disco, boogie and edits. The chart is for new releases from the last twelve months. Classics that are still in heavy rotation get their own corner.
New house music on vinyl and download
Every track links to the stores that sell it, as a vinyl record or as a download, from Bandcamp and Juno to Traxsource and Beatport. Many of these records come out in small runs, so buying straight from the label or the artist often makes the most sense.
Underground house music, picked by DJs
This is not a sales chart. The records here come from small labels, white labels and self released 12 inches, played by DJs from clubs like Panorama Bar, Robert Johnson, Nowadays and fabric and from radio stations like NTS. Underground house, Chicago jack tracks, New York garage, Detroit deep house and dusty disco edits sit next to each other, as long as the people behind the decks keep playing them.
How the chart works
Every DJ who plays a record on the radio or puts it in their monthly chart gives it ten points. DJs who regularly play the clubs we follow give it five more, and a record someone both plays and charts gets an extra five. Own records and own labels don't count. Release years are checked against Discogs, so reissues and classics land in Still in the bag instead of the Top 20.