Most Played Track, Biggest Artist & More Key Takeaways From WARM’s 2026 Dance Insights Report
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WARM ranked the Global Top 100 dance tracks over the first half of 2026 using data from more than 200 dance radio stations in nearly 40 countries.
The World Airplay Radio Monitor has released its 2026 Dance Insights report, which compares the first half of 2026 to the first half of 2025 across artist performance, label share, collaborations, gender, genre and geography.
For the report, WARM ranked the Global Top 100 dance tracks over the first six months of 2026 using airplay data from 218 dedicated dance radio stations in 39 countries. The panel of stations includes BBC Radio 1 and NTS Radio in the United Kingdom, SiriusXM’s BPM and Diplo’s Revolution and Ibiza Global Radio in Spain.
ANOTR’s “Talk to You,” featuring 54 Ultra, was the most played track of the half of 2026 with 15,087 plays. The song, which spent 17 weeks at No. 1 on the weekly WARM Global Dance Airplay chart, edges out Sonny Fodera, D.O.D and Poppy Baskcomb’s “Think About Us” (No. 2; 12,908 plays) and HUGEL and SOLTO’s “Jamaican (Bam Bam)” (No. 3; 11,791).
Artists from 26 countries across six continents are represented in the top 100, though the U.K. and U.S. are the anchors, as U.K. artists account for 25.6% of artist appearances and U.S. artists account for 20.7%. Still, the rest of the world makes up the majority, with 53.7% of appearances. France (9.4%), Germany and the Netherlands (6.9% each) head up that group, while acts from countries including South Korea, Brazil, Nigeria and Zimbabwe also earn spots.
On the genre side, dance pop leads with 40 tracks, or 38.8% of the chart. House (17 songs) and tech house (12) follow, and together the top three genres make up two-thirds of the list. In all, the top 100 spans 17 genres, with Afro house (10 titles) close behind the leaders.
Here are our five key takeaways from the report.