House
House is electronic dance music with a steady four-on-the-floor kick drum, off-beat hi-hats and a tempo of roughly 115 to 130 beats per minute.
It began in Chicago clubs in the early 1980s, where DJs such as Frankie Knuckles reworked disco records with drum machines and synthesizers. The name is often traced to the Warehouse, the club where Knuckles played. House is warmer and more song-like than techno, often with soulful vocals, piano chords and deep basslines, and it has split into dozens of styles including deep house, acid house and tech house.
Artists it is known for: Frankie Knuckles, Marshall Jefferson, Larry Heard.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Chicago, early 1980s
- Also called
- house music
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 9%
About 7,800 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have house among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
House artists
Calvin Harris
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KETTAMA
John Summit
Prospa
Tiësto
Disclosure
FISHER
Cloonee
CHRIS STASSYThe house 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.