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Skrillex
Skrillex became the artist most responsible for bringing dubstep to mainstream American audiences, winning multiple Grammy Awards for his aggressive, heavily distorted "brostep" sound that diverged significantly from the genre's more minimal, bass-focused UK origins. His 2010 EP "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" became one of the most commercially significant and influential dubstep releases ever made, its distorted, mid-range-heavy "wobble bass" sound establishing a specific American variant of the genre that came to dominate festival main stages throughout the early 2010s. Skrillex's role helping popularize electronic dance music's broader mainstream American festival boom during the early 2010s extended his influence well beyond dubstep specifically, making him one of the most commercially significant electronic music producers of his generation regardless of genre. His combination of "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites'" genre-defining commercial breakthrough and his broader role driving American EDM's mainstream festival explosion has made Skrillex almost universally regarded as the most commercially significant dubstep artist in the genre's history.
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Nero
Nero, the London duo of Daniel Stephens and Joe Ray, brought dubstep into direct commercial dialogue with mainstream pop and rock production, winning a Grammy Award and achieving significant UK chart success with their 2011 debut album "Welcome Reality." Their sound, incorporating soaring, anthemic vocal hooks and rock-influenced song structures alongside dubstep's characteristic bass drops, gave their music considerably broader mainstream radio accessibility than the genre's more purely instrumental, club-oriented origins. "Welcome Reality" reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart reflected dubstep's genuine mainstream commercial breakthrough in its country of origin, a level of chart success matched by relatively few other dubstep-associated releases in the UK specifically. Their combination of their Grammy-winning, chart-topping commercial success and their pop-and-rock-influenced approach to dubstep production has made Nero one of the most commercially significant acts in the genre's mainstream crossover era.
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