Belarus on the Board: A Techno-Forward Scene Pushes Up the DJ Radar Rankings

Belarus has 36 DJs on the DJ Radar board, and the top of that list reads like a snapshot of a scene that refuses to settle on a single sound. Hard dance, dubstep, techno and electronica all sit inside the country's top eight, and the spread tells you something: this isn't a one-genre export. It's a network of distinct lanes, each with its own audience.

At No. 1 is Lida, a hard dance artist with a credit score of 699 and 5,869 votes — the highest vote total in the country's top tier. The streaming footprint backs up the ranking: 710,555 monthly Spotify listeners, 513,579 Spotify followers and 21,000 YouTube subscribers. That's a reach well beyond a regional club circuit, and it makes Lida the clearest crossover story Belarus currently has on the board.

Right behind, at No. 2, is 9mice, working in dubstep with a credit score of 603 and 2,096 votes. The profile here is built on different rails — 225,000 Instagram followers and 53,190 on SoundCloud — pointing to an artist whose momentum runs through bass culture's social and upload-driven channels rather than the playlist economy.

The middle of the list is where the scene's identity sharpens. Three of the top eight are techno acts. Cliche Morph lands at No. 3 with a 540 credit score and 1,577 votes, carrying 2,330 SoundCloud followers and a foothold on Resident Advisor with 524 followers. Neiroll sits at No. 5 (513, 1,448 votes), and Special Zip at No. 6 — and Special Zip is worth a closer look, because his 2,785 votes are the second-highest in the entire top eight, trailing only Lida. That vote count outpaces every act ranked above him except the No. 1, a reminder that the credit score and the crowd don't always move in lockstep.

That trio gives Belarus a genuine techno cluster rather than a lone standout. Different follower bases, different platforms, but a shared lane — exactly the kind of density that turns a country from a name on a chart into a scene with a reputation.

Three electronica artists round out the eight. Katya Ocean, the highest-ranked woman on the Belarus board, comes in at No. 4 with a 515 credit score, 1,500 votes and 15,507 Instagram followers. Diffuzion follows at No. 7 (494, 1,328 votes), and TomZigota closes the group at No. 8 (455, 1,152 votes). It's a softer, more textural counterweight to the hard dance and techno up top — proof that the country's listeners support more than peak-time intensity.

Look across the eight and a pattern emerges. The credit scores compress tightly from No. 3 down — 540, 515, 513, 508, 494, 455 — meaning the gap between fourth and eighth is narrow enough that a strong season could reshuffle the order. The two clear outliers are at the top: Lida and 9mice both pull away on raw audience size, while the techno and electronica acts compete on votes and credit in a far tighter band.

With 36 DJs charting in total, the eight profiled here are the visible edge of something deeper. The story isn't a single star — it's the balance: a hard-dance frontrunner, a dubstep social-media force, a real techno cluster, and an electronica wing holding its own. That's a scene with range, and range is what keeps a country climbing.