Radio Record House Hits streams a non-stop mix of commercial house music, catchy beats and vocal-driven dance tracks live from Saint Petersburg, Russia. Press play on Radio Shuffle and it's on instantly, free, no account needed.
Russia's First Dance Station, Still Splitting by Genre
House Hits runs inside Radio Record, which launched on August 22, 1995 in St Petersburg and became, according to the station's own Wikipedia entry, the first Russian radio station to switch entirely to a dance music format, a decision reportedly driven by a vote of its own listening audience rather than a programming committee. The station went national by satellite in 2004, then expanded its single signal into dozens of genre-specific channels starting in 2018, letting fans of one particular sound, from drum and bass to trance to house, tune into exactly that rather than sitting through genres they would rather skip.
How House Became Hits, Not Just Underground Club Music
House Hits leans into the side of the genre built for crossover appeal rather than underground club nights, and that commercial lineage traces back to a specific turning point in the genre's own history. After helping originate house music at Chicago's Warehouse club in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Frankie Knuckles moved to New York and formed Def Mix Productions with David Morales, where the pair began applying house treatments to mainstream pop stars, remixing tracks for Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan and Whitney Houston, according to a history of Knuckles' career. That remix work is the clearest bridge between house's club roots and the vocal, hook-driven, chart-friendly sound that a channel literally named House Hits is built around today.
One Genre Slice of a Much Bigger Catalog
House Hits sits alongside sister channels like Record Deep, Future House and a Minimal/Tech stream inside Radio Record's wider electronic lineup, each one narrowing in on a specific house subgenre rather than blending them together. That structure gives listeners who specifically want the big, recognizable, radio-friendly side of house a dedicated home, distinct from the deeper or more experimental channels running elsewhere on the same network.
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