Robin Schulz

A club night in Osnabrück, then a remix that went everywhere

Robin Alexander Schulz was born on 28 April 1987 in Osnabrück. He began DJing at 17 and had his own club night within three years, which is the unglamorous part of the story: a decade of local and regional work before anything travelled.

What travelled was a remix. In February 2014 his reworking of Mr. Probz's "Waves" went to number one in Austria, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and was nominated for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical at the 57th Grammy Awards. He repeated the trick in June the same year with Lilly Wood and the Prick's "Prayer in C", which took a diamond certification in Germany and multi-platinum awards elsewhere. Both were the same move — a slow, melancholic song rebuilt on a deep house frame — and both established the template he would work for the next decade.

An album artist in a singles genre

Most producers who break through on remixes stay in the singles economy. Schulz went the other way and kept making albums: Prayer in 2014, Sugar in September 2015, Uncovered in 2017, IIII in 2021 and Pink on 25 August 2023. The title track of Sugar, featuring Francesco Yates, has passed a billion Spotify streams on its own.

Pink, his fifth, ran to 17 tracks and leaned hard on guest vocals and co-signs — "Young Right Now" with Dennis Lloyd, "On Repeat" with David Guetta, "Sun Will Shine" with Tom Walker. It remains the most recent full-length; three years on, there is no announced successor.

The trophies came early. He took the Echo prize for Best National Dance in 2015 and Best National Act Abroad in 2016. His DJ Mag Top 100 placing peaked at 60 in 2018. He co-founded Lausbuben Records and has released through Tonspiel, Warner and Big Beat.

Ibiza changed what he makes

The pivot that matters right now started on 10 May 2025, when Schulz opened his first Pacha Ibiza residency. He had been on the island for years — first as a support booking, later fronting Pure Pacha — but a residency of his own meant a full season of seven-hour rooms rather than 90-minute festival slots, and the records followed the rooms.

He came back in 2026 with a split residency: nine Saturdays in two blocks, 16 May to 6 June and 5 September to 3 October, priced from about €30, on a format Pacha has adopted to keep the peak summer months less predictable. Guests across the season have included NERVO, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano, Melanie C, Jax Jones and Oliver Heldens.

The new material is noticeably less radio-shaped. "Arizona", made with Marten Hörger and released on Warner in June 2026, is a straight four-on-the-floor peak-time record and the pair's first proper studio collaboration after a remix together in December 2024. On 14 August 2026 he put out "Take It Slow (Bullit)" with Watermät via Spinnin' Records. Neither is trying to be "Sugar".

The year so far, in releases

2026 has been a singles year: "Embers", "Flames" with Bandit, "Better Times" with BARBZ, "Arizona" with Marten Hörger and "Take It Slow (Bullit)" with Watermät. 2025 was similar in shape — "Thinking About You" with Arkey, a Hypaton remix of "AM to PM" with Zoe Wees, the In The Mix 3 DJ mix, and a tenth-anniversary reissue package around Sugar.

The scale claimed on his own site is large and worth reading as the artist's own accounting rather than an audit: more than 20 billion streams worldwide, two billion of them in Germany; over 150 million Shazams; more than 28 million monthly Spotify listeners; 27 entries on the German singles chart including 12 top tens and three number ones. Whatever the precise figures, the commercial base is domestic-plus-Europe and it is not shrinking.

Of his Pacha quote from the start of the 2025 season — "the club always feels like home — the energy, the people, the staff — it's all so familiar and full of love" — the operative part is that he now talks about a venue rather than a chart.

Where the diary sits

The touring model is festivals and one-off open-airs through the summer, Ibiza Saturdays around them, and scattered indoor dates in autumn. In 2026 that has meant both Coachella weekends at the Heineken House in Indio on 10 and 17 April, the opening night of Summertime on Norderney on 29 July at the Summertime-Arena am Nordstrand, and the Autostadt Sommerfestival in Wolfsburg on 7 August. 2025 covered similar ground: Weekend Festival in Espoo on 2 August, Glücksgefühle at the Hockenheimring on 13 September, Creamfields Chile at Santiago's Club Hípico on 11 October.

What remains on sale is short. Two Pacha Saturdays close out the residency — 26 September with Tita Lau, Noel Holler and Wave Wave, and the 3 October closing party with Oliver Heldens, Lovra and Alle Farben, both 23:00 to 06:00. After that, the Bohemia Beach Club at FIVE Palm Jumeirah in Dubai on 10 October and the Konzert- und Kongresszentrum Harmonie in Heilbronn on 31 October. There is no announced 2027 arena run.

What the set actually does

The Wolfsburg show in August gives the clearest recent picture of the festival version. Schulz played the Lagunenbühne on the Friday night to a crowd in the thousands, after a warm-up from DJ Tapesh, and worked through a mix of his own catalogue and other people's — "OK", "Young Right Now" and "Unforgettable" all landed, stitched together with contemporary remixes rather than played as the original radio edits. Local coverage described a field that danced and sang from the first record and applause audible across the Autostadt grounds.

The Ibiza version is a different job. A Pacha Saturday runs to six in the morning across three or four DJs, which gives Schulz room to play the harder end — the Hörger and Watermät records exist because that room exists. Anyone arriving for a greatest-hits show at four in the morning is in the wrong building.