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Monthly bouyon beatmakers top: the people building the beats

By TIITII NBA, artist of the New Bouyon Wave collective.

The ranking of Guadeloupe's most streamed bouyon beatmakers on Spotify, updated every month. Monthly listeners, rank, and each profile.

⚡ The essentials in 30 seconds

Ranking of Guadeloupe's bouyon beatmakers by Spotify monthly listeners, updated every month.

Leading at the latest count: DJ Skycee, 1T1, YSN.

Beatmaker and producer are two jobs: this one counts the people building the beat.

Every name links to its profile: island, role, releases, listening links.

Five known beatmakers are missing: no usable Spotify page, not an oversight.

This month's ranking

Spotify count · August 2026.

  1. DJ Skycee1.2Mmonthly listeners
  2. 1T1980Kmonthly listeners
  3. YSN303Kmonthly listeners
  4. Lewismelo248Kmonthly listeners
  5. DJ LEGUSTE61Kmonthly listeners
  6. Qwann31Kmonthly listeners
  7. DJ Luchshiy12Kmonthly listeners
  8. J2MO6Kmonthly listeners
  9. DJ Skaytah4Kmonthly listeners
  10. Deejay Guyguy3Kmonthly listeners

The outsiders: three names just below

The ranking stops at tenth place, but it keeps going underneath. One release that catches on at a party and the order changes next month. For DJ Skaylone, the counter could not be read on his page: the figure shown is not a real audience, only a fallback value.

  1. DJ Boko3Kmonthly listeners
  2. DJ Dirtee265monthly listeners
  3. DJ Skaylone1monthly listeners

How to read this ranking

A monthly listener count measures an audience on one platform, not the value of a beat. A beatmaker can sign the record everyone sings at a party and still sit low on this list: production credits do not always surface on a Spotify artist page.

The distinction matters too. Here, the beatmaker builds the beat, the producer carries and funds the project. Two jobs, two rankings. This one counts the first group only.

Five names well known on the Gwada scene are missing for lack of a usable page, and that is not an oversight. Dinho has three scattered profiles at zero listeners, his credits badly merged by distribution. DJ Weez cannot be found, the only namesake traced is from Martinique. Vador has no solo page, he only appears through the Yellow Gaza collective. Neither does DJ Joe. Diixly falls outside the scope: he comes from France, not Guadeloupe.

VJ Ben drops off this list for a different reason: he is a DJ and a producer, not a beatmaker. He carries projects, he does not build the beats. That is exactly the mix-up this ranking sets out to avoid.

Following the scene before it tips

Beats land before records do. Watching who produces what this month means seeing what comes next one step earlier.

FAQ — common questions about bouyon beatmakers

Who is the most streamed bouyon beatmaker in Guadeloupe?

At the latest count, DJ Skycee leads, ahead of 1T1 and YSN. The ranking is read from official Spotify artist pages every month.

Why are some well known beatmakers missing?

Because they have no usable Spotify page: duplicate profiles, credits badly merged by distribution, or no solo page at all. The ranking measures what can be measured, it does not judge the work.

Can an artist appear in both rankings?

Yes. 1T1 and Lewismelo both sing and build their own beats. So they show up in the artist ranking and in this one.

How often is it updated?

Every month, same as the artist ranking.

Sources

Monthly listeners read from official Spotify artist pages, Guadeloupe territory. The site's artist profiles cross-check this data with Apple Music, Deezer and official Instagram accounts.

Further reading

The ranking of the most streamed bouyon artists lives on its own page, refreshed at the same pace. The chapter on producers and connectors tells the other half of the story: the people holding credits and bridging artists.

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