last time i checked, being a dj consisted more than the world of trance and electrohouse.

there's no way in hell richie hawtin, sven vath, or ricardo villalobos make that much less than these guys.

Judge Jules $40 MM? I don't think so...

lol, exclude carl cox from the list and they are all rubbish!

Apparently Richie blew it all on plugins.

I have no doubt that Villalobos makes far less than most of the Djs featured on said list due to his limited to near non-existant presence in the United States which, for better or worse, is undoubtedly one of the most valuable markets for wealth accumulation. Sven Vath is, given the nature of Cocoon, a far more surprising omission.

Then again there is no information as to how the list was compiled so I'm going to take its findings with a hefty pinch of salt.

Skrillex was touted as being worth $15m recently on the Forbes music rich list

Nonsense information

Sure Hawtin, Väth and Ricardo made in excess of 2M, look what revenues are made in Ibiza. But they make far less than they could make, because they still care about the music and the people and do not want to become pop musicians like David Guetta. Ricardo plays at the Robert Johnson four times a year, Väth recently played at Kater Holzig, this is a strategy to have a lot of fun, not to get rich.
Also Kalkbrenner should be on the list, he constantly plays big shows.
We love Club Culture, and for most of us, theres is nothing greater than having a nice party in an intimate location, but there is no money to be made if you play for 200 people.

I think there's a decent chance the list focuses on people related to the demographic of the website. It seems slanted.

what has all this got to do with music?

I'm not sure how reliable this list is, but I'm glad none of the DJ's i hold in high regard are on thsi list.

A multi-millionaire underground artist doesn't really sit well with me