The chart success of Lady Gaga, Daft Punk, Black Eyed Peas and Calvin Harris demonstrate how pop and house have been skilfully joined together in some instances. The influence of house can also be found today in mainstream pop and dance music. Typical characteristics of house in general include the use of a repetitive 4/4 beat, rhythms delivered by electronic drum machines and artificial bass lines. Sinnamon’s 'Thanks to you', D Train’s 'You're The One For Me' and The Peech Boys' 'Do not Make Me Wait' captured a synthetic sound scattered with dub effects and drop-outs, which had never been heard before. Initially, Chicago house spread rapidly through the underground scene in the US. House music not only has roots in US disco music, but eurobeat aswell: European electronic pop music from Depeche Mode, Soft Cell or Giorgio Moroder, for example, was extremely popular in the clubs of New York and Chicago. In doing so he created a deeper, raw style, known as Chicago house, which got the crowds dancing even more.

When Knuckles realized that the instrumental parts of his music sent his audience wild, he began to focus on mixing these sections, of old disco classics in parcicular, with new elements such as eurobeat, while leaving out the remainder of the songs. From the late 70s onwards he regularly featured on set at the Chicago Club 'Warehouse', which eventually gave its name to the genre. In part, these DJs have the 'Godfather of House' Frankie Knuckles to thank for their success. have turned house’s creators into superstars, bursting their busy schedule at the seams. Big hits from the likes of David Guetta, Armin van Buuren, Avicii and co. It is hard to find any other music genre, in which DJs are so highly regarded like they are with house.

House - probably the most popular type of electronic dance music fills clubs from Chicago to Paris, Tel Aviv to Tokyo.

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