You will hear this claim a lot in DnB circles: "drum and bass has the highest BPM-to-audience-loyalty ratio of any electronic genre." It is repeated in podcasts, articles, conference panels. We tried to source it. We could not.

Where it might have come from

Possibly a 2017 Resident Advisor article on dance music demographics. Possibly a DJ Mag editorial from around the same time. Possibly somebody made it up and it stuck because it sounded plausible.

Is it true?

Probably. DnB audiences are demonstrably loyal, BPMs are demonstrably high, and most audience-loyalty research lines up with the claim directionally. But "highest" requires a comparison that nobody has actually run. The next time someone cites it, ask them where the number comes from.

Lesson

Healthy skepticism about scene-internal stats. Most of them are vibes-based. The vibes are usually correct but the numbers behind them rarely exist.