yeh but from releasing such songs as Adagio For Strings to having Post Malone, Rita Ora etc feature on his singles is just a bit sad and he's got enough of a legacy and fan base to not be chasing for chart success, by doing that he's actually throwing a fair amount of his fans away as his sets are just full of commercial pop.

I was a big Tiesto fan myself in the very beginning, when he released tracks like Traffic, Adagio for Strings and his remix of Silence

I was living in The Netherlands then and he was like God, one of his songs was played a a bar and people would go bonkers and start jumping around like crazy

I even went to some of his gigs that were like 8 hours long DJ-sets when he was only playing his songs and remix

 

not sure why all these DJs prefer commercial than critics/fan success

not sure why all these DJs prefer commercial than critics/fan success

Is it not obvious?

 

All the big DJs try to follow where the money's going, that's just how the industry works.

 

As soon as trance stopped being mainstream Tiësto jumped ship. The old Tiësto's never coming back.