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The playlists

Every playlist is maintained automatically: new releases land the day they drop, older tracks rotate out, and the Top 100 charts rank the proven favourites of each genre.

Release radars

Top 100s

Two kinds of playlist

HDRR runs two kinds of Spotify playlist, one for discovery and one for the classics. The Release Radars catch every new release in a genre the day it drops, so each one is a live feed of what is fresh in hardstyle, hardcore, uptempo, frenchcore, happy hardcore or hard techno. The Top 100 charts do the opposite: they rank the most-streamed tracks of a scene, recalculated daily from real listening data.

Both are maintained automatically. New releases are pulled in as they appear on Spotify, older tracks rotate off the radars after a few weeks, and the charts rebuild every day, so nothing here is a frozen editor’s pick from months ago. Every playlist mirrors to a public Spotify playlist you can follow, and every track links back to its full details, artists and genre on this site.

The difference from Spotify’s own playlists is scope. Spotify’s Release Radar is personal to each listener and refreshes once a week from artists you already follow. These radars are genre-wide and identical for everyone, refreshed daily, built to surface a whole scene including the artists you have not discovered yet.

Questions,answered

What is the difference between a Release Radar and a Top 100?

A Release Radar collects every new release in a genre, updated daily, so it is built for discovering fresh music. A Top 100 ranks that genre’s most-streamed tracks right now, so it is built for the proven favourites. Most people follow one radar for new music and one chart for the hits.

How is this different from Spotify’s Release Radar?

Spotify’s Release Radar is personalised and refreshes every Friday from artists you already follow. HDRR’s Release Radars are genre-wide, updated every day and the same for everyone, so they surface the entire scene rather than only the acts already in your library.

How often are the playlists updated?

Every day. New releases are added to the radars as they appear on Spotify, tracks rotate off after a few weeks, and the Top 100 charts recalculate daily from current streaming data.

Which genres have playlists?

There are Release Radars for hardstyle, uptempo hardcore, hardcore, frenchcore, happy hardcore and hard techno, plus Top 100 charts for hardstyle, hardcore and hard techno. Rawstyle and euphoric hardstyle releases flow into the hardstyle playlists.

Are the playlists free to follow?

Yes. Every HDRR playlist is a public Spotify playlist anyone can follow for free. Follow the ones you want and they keep updating themselves in your library, with no account needed on this site.