Resident Advisor

---

title: "Resident Advisor" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["online-music-magazines-published-in-the-united-kingdom", "dance-music-magazines-published-in-england", "magazines-established-in-2001", "magazines-published-in-london", "2001-establishments-in-australia"] description: "Online music magazine and community platform" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Advisor" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Online music magazine and community platform ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox website"]

Field	Value
name	Resident Advisor
logo	ResidentAdvisor logo.png
logo_size	190px
company_type	Privately held company
foundation
founder	Paul Clement
Nick Sabine
area_served	Worldwide
location	London, England, UK
homepage
num_employees	100
launch_date
website_type	music website
::

| name = Resident Advisor | logo = ResidentAdvisor logo.png | logo_size = 190px | company_type = Privately held company | foundation = | founder = Paul Clement Nick Sabine | area_served = Worldwide | location = London, England, UK | homepage = | num_employees = 100 | launch_date = | website_type = music website

Resident Advisor (also known as RA) is an online music magazine and community platform established in 2001 and dedicated to showcasing electronic music, artists and events across the globe. Its editorial team provides news, music and event reviews, as well as films, features and interviews. Resident Advisor also provides global event listings and ticket sales platform, club and promoter directories, artist and record label profiles, and the RA Podcast.

The company has its headquarters in London, with additional offices in Berlin, Los Angeles, New York and Melbourne. The website won a People's Voice award in the 12th Annual Webby Awards in 2008.

History

Resident Advisor was founded in Sydney, Australia in 2001 by Paul Clement and Nick Sabine as a website for providing news and information relating to the Australian dance music scene.

As Resident Advisor grew both Clement and Sabine initially kept their day jobs and hired staff to help with the site. In 2006, after Clement and Sabine had moved to the UK, they both began working full time on Resident Advisor and incorporated the company in the UK, with an office in Berlin opening 2007.

RA Tickets was unveiled in 2008 to allow promoters of electronic music to sell tickets. RA Tickets launched a face-value ticket resale system.

In January 2014, the first complete redesign in the site's history was announced, adding mobile support, responsive design, a new logo, full SoundCloud integration on artist pages and other features. At that time, Resident Advisor started to have more than two million users per month.

An article in The New York Times, published in July 2015, mentions Resident Advisor as "one of the most influential EDM-focused sites".

The company launched its first consumer-focused iOS app in 2015. The RA Guide, free in the App Store (iOS), takes the site's listings for clubs, festivals and concerts to the mobile market. Apple featured RA as a curator, with the launch of Apple Music, to contribute electronic music playlists to the streaming service.

In October 2020, following the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on British arts and culture organisations, RA received £750,000 from the Arts Council of England as part of the UK's Culture Recovery Fund initiative.

At the start of 2021, Resident Advisor launched a redesign of their existing website. The new design also coincided with a change to their domain name, migrating from residentadvisor.net to ra.co.

Other media

The RA Podcast is a weekly mix of electronic music from top producers and DJs. It launched on 6 March 2006 with a mix from Troy Pierce. In 2010, Resident Advisor started a second podcast series titled the RA Exchange. The site defines the RA Exchange as a series of conversations with artists (e.g., Guy Gerber, Morgan Geist, and New Order), labels (e.g., Defected Records, Future Classic, and Rush Hour), and promoters (e.g., Decibel, MUTEK, and Sónar) shaping the electronic music landscape.

Resident Advisor launched RA Films in 2011, starting with a documentary series called Real Scenes that covered music culture in Bristol, Berlin and Detroit. Over the following years, RA continued to produce a variety of video-based content including; live performances, interviews, and both short and long-form reporting.{{cite web |title=Resident Advisor channel on YouTube |website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/residentadvisor |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601013809/https://www.youtube.com/user/residentadvisor/ |archive-date=1 June 2023}}

Annual polls

From 2006 to 2016 Resident Advisor conducted two annual voting polls at the end of each year under the name RA Poll. The first polls the publications readers, who are asked to vote for their top 100 DJs and live acts of the year.

Resident Advisor ceased the polls in 2017 due to concerns about diversity and their growing influence on the music industry.

Album of the Year

::data[format=table]

Year	Artist	Album	Source
2006	Booka Shade	Movements
2007	Burial	Untrue
2008	Shed	Shedding the Past
2009	DJ Sprinkles	Midtown 120 Blues
2010	Caribou	Swim
2011	Nicolas Jaar	Space Is Only Noise
2012	Voices from the Lake	Voices from the Lake
2013	James Holden	The Inheritors
2014	Andy Stott	Faith in Strangers
2015	Floating Points	Elaenia
2016	Babyfather	"BBF" Hosted by DJ Escrow
2019	FKA Twigs	Magdalene
2020	DJ Python	Mas Amable
2021	Space Afrika	Honest Labour
2022	D. Tiffany and Roza Terenzi	Edge of Innocence
2023	Kelela	Raven
2024	Loidis	One Day
::

For 2017 and 2018, Resident Advisor published entirely non-ranked album lists. ::data[format=table]

Decade	Artist	Album	Source
2000s	Ricardo Villalobos	Alcachofa
::

For the 2010s, Resident Advisor published a largely non-ranked album list.

References

References

1. Jackson, Jasper. (2016-09-12). "Resident Advisor founders: 'Fabric helped shape us'".
2. "General Website: Music". The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
3. Sisario, Ben. (2015-07-12). "Influential Site Inhabits Fringe of an Electronic Dance Music Culture". The New York Times.
4. Malt, Andy. "Resident Advisor launches face-value ticket resale service". Complete Music Update.
5. (26 January 2014). "Resident Advisor relaunches site".
6. Dredge, Stuart. (24 June 2015). "Electronic music website Resident Advisor takes its club listings mobile". The Guardian.
7. Dredge, Stuart. (30 September 2015). "Is Apple Music worth paying for?". The Guardian.
8. (5 January 2021). "RA launches new website".
9. Matos, Michaelangelo. (8 July 2010). "In pod we trust". The Guardian.
10. (9 December 2015). "Resident Advisor Reveals Its Top 100 DJs of 2015".
11. (10 December 2015). "Resident Advisor Releases Its Top 40 Live Acts of 2015".
12. (22 November 2017). "Opinion: Why we're stopping the RA polls".
13. "RA Poll: Top 5 albums of 2006 · Feature ⟋ RA".
14. "RA Poll: Top 10 albums of 2007 · Feature ⟋ RA".
15. "RA Poll: Top 20 albums of 2008 · Feature ⟋ RA".
16. "RA Poll: Top 20 albums of 2009 · Feature ⟋ RA".
17. "RA Poll: Top 20 albums of 2010 · Feature ⟋ RA".
18. "RA Poll: Top 20 albums of 2011 · Feature ⟋ RA".
19. "RA Poll: Top 20 albums of 2012 · Feature ⟋ RA".
20. "RA Poll: Top 20 albums of 2013 · Feature ⟋ RA".
21. "RA Poll: Top 20 albums of 2014 · Feature ⟋ RA".
22. "RA Poll: Top 20 albums of 2015 · Feature ⟋ RA".
23. "RA Poll: Top 20 albums of 2016 · Feature ⟋ RA".
24. "2019's Best Albums · Feature ⟋ RA".
25. "2020's Best Albums · Feature ⟋ RA".
26. "The Best Albums of 2021 · Feature ⟋ RA".
27. "The Best Albums of 2022 · Feature ⟋ RA".
28. "The Best Albums of 2023 · Feature ⟋ RA".
29. "The Best Records of 2024 · Feature ⟋ RA".
30. "2017's Best Albums · Feature ⟋ RA".
31. "2018's Best Albums · Feature ⟋ RA".
32. "RA Poll: Top 100 albums of the '00s · Feature ⟋ RA".
33. "2010-19: Albums Of The Decade · Feature ⟋ RA".

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::