EDM
EDM, short for electronic dance music, is a broad term for beat-driven electronic music made for clubs, raves and festivals.
The name covers house, techno, trance, dubstep, drum and bass and many other styles built with synthesizers, drum machines and computers. The initials came into wide use in the early 2010s, when the American music industry and music press adopted them as dance music moved from clubs to large festivals and into the pop charts. DJs usually play the tracks blended together into one continuous set.
Artists it is known for: Calvin Harris, Avicii, Skrillex, David Guetta.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A broad heading
- From
- Term popularized in the United States, early 2010s
- Also called
- electronic dance music, dance music
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 17%
About 14,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have edm among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
EDM artists
Calvin Harris
David Guetta
Zara Larsson
Ellie Goulding
The Chainsmokers
Avicii
Flo Rida
Fred again..
Marshmello
Jason Derulo
The edm artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.