I Hate Models: What 13,850 Votes Say About France's Techno Draw

Some artist names need explaining before the music has a chance to speak. I Hate Models is one of them. It's blunt and a little confrontational, and once you've read it you don't forget it. A name like that gets attention. Keeping that attention depends on the following behind it, and the following behind I Hate Models is strong on every platform in his profile.

I Hate Models has a DJ Radar credit score of 938, based on 13,850 votes.

The score gets the headline, but the vote count tells you more. A credit score is a summary. The 13,850 votes are a measure of participation: each one is a fan who chose to back this artist. A score like this comes from a crowd that cares enough to say so.

His profile lists Techno as both his main genre and his genre family. There's no hybrid tag or crossover label to work out. On DJ Radar he is a techno artist through and through, and he represents France.

That clarity matters when reading the rest of the profile. Every number below belongs to an artist working in one genre, not to one whose audience is spread across several scenes.

Start with Spotify. I Hate Models has 483,418 monthly listeners and 338,645 followers. Look at how those two figures relate. Followers equal about 70% of the monthly audience. A reasonable reading is that much of his listening comes from people who chose to follow him, not from people who heard a track once on a playlist and moved on.

Instagram is the largest single number in the profile, at 1,201,121 followers. YouTube is next with 635,000 subscribers. Together they point to an audience that follows I Hate Models through video and images as well as through audio.

Then come the specialist platforms. He has 193,537 SoundCloud followers, 125,038 Last.fm listeners and 43,576 followers on Resident Advisor. These numbers are smaller, but they come from different parts of the audience. Some of these people log every play, some go through uploads, and some follow club listings. Each platform shows a different kind of engagement, and all of them register here.

DJ Radar's data also records a festival count of 421 for I Hate Models. It's a reminder that this profile isn't measured only in streams and follows.

No single figure is what stands out. The consistency is. No one platform carries the profile on its own. Streaming, video, social and specialist channels all show substantial audiences, and his DJ Radar standing of a 938 credit score from 13,850 votes rests on that whole spread, not on one spike.

The name I Hate Models sounds like a provocation. The numbers make a quieter case that is easier to trust: this is a French techno artist whose reach is spread wide, not borrowed from a single platform.