Belgium on DJ Radar: Techno Rules the Summit, Range Rules the Rest

Belgium has 313 DJs on the DJ Radar board. Its top eight are more varied than you might expect. Two techno artists hold the top two places. Below them, the list moves through big room, deep house, drum & bass, house, electro house and melodic house & techno, so the eight names cover seven main genres between them.

Charlotte de Witte is No. 1 with a credit score of 992. That is the highest in the country and 63 points clear of the next name. Her profile lists 85,330 votes, 1,755,352 Spotify monthly listeners, 6,475,688 Instagram followers, 1,020,000 YouTube subscribers and a festival count of 202.

Amelie Lens is No. 2 on 929. She has 14,389 votes, 1,198,266 Spotify monthly listeners and 57,352 Resident Advisor followers, which puts her close to de Witte's 60,037 on that platform. Her festival count of 218 is the higher of the two in this group that list one.

Both are female techno artists, so Belgium's board opens with the same genre at No. 1 and No. 2.

Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike are No. 3 on 917. Their main genre is big room, and they are the only entry in the top eight in the commercial genre family. The profile shows 12,914 votes, 13,904,436 Spotify monthly listeners, 3,714,244 Spotify followers and 4,706,709 Instagram followers.

Lost Frequencies is just 7 points behind on 910, with deep house as main genre. His 20,653,601 Spotify monthly listeners and 1,216,420 Last.fm listeners are both the highest figures in this top eight. Having the biggest streaming numbers still leaves him fourth, which shows that the ranking measures more than streaming reach.

The closest race on the Belgian board is between fifth and sixth. Netsky has 866 and Dimitri Vegas has 865, a gap of exactly one point.

Netsky is the only drum & bass artist in the group and the only one in the bass genre family. His profile lists 7,293 votes, 1,690,351 Spotify monthly listeners, 675,904 Last.fm listeners and 26,425 RA followers.

Dimitri Vegas, listed under house, has 7,893 votes. That is more than Netsky, even though Dimitri Vegas sits one place lower. He also shows 14,551,840 Spotify monthly listeners and 3,048,380 Instagram followers.

Like Mike is No. 7 on 854, with electro house as main genre. His 7,976 votes are the most of anyone from fifth to eighth, yet he ranks seventh among those four. In this data, rank follows credit score rather than raw vote totals.

Coone closes the top eight on 851, three points behind Like Mike. His main genre is listed as melodic house & techno. He has 7,211 votes, 1,829,595 Spotify monthly listeners and 264,388 Instagram followers.

Belgium's standout trait on DJ Radar is how wide its top tier spreads across genres. Techno takes the two highest places, and Coone's melodic house & techno extends that thread further down. Around them are a big room act, a deep house artist with the largest streaming numbers in the group, the country's drum & bass representative, and two house-family names with Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike.

The gaps show the shape of the board. At the top, de Witte has a clear lead. From third place down, scores sit close together: 7 points between Nos. 3 and 4, one point between Nos. 5 and 6, and three points between Nos. 7 and 8.

With 313 Belgian DJs on the board, the eight leaders account for only a small part of the country's presence. Watch the close middle of the table, where a few points of credit score separate one place from the next.