Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike’s Management Respond To iPad Voting Allegations

Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike caused quite the uproar after the Belgian duo were voted #1 DJs in the world in DJ Mag’s Top 100 poll.

With widespread allegations about the duo employing a team that went from person to person with iPads at Tomorrowland, asking people to vote for DVLM, with even Hardwell and Dannic tweeting in disgust about the tactic. Now, the duo’s manager, Debby Wilmsen has released a statement, regarding their win.

We have indeed conducted ??promotional campaigns, like all the other DJs. But Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike have deservedly won. Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike now travel all around the world. Wherever they are, they sell out the show in no time. That’s why they have won, not because the of the iPad votes. It’s fun to win, not to lose.

In an interview with Het Laatste Nieuws, one of the girls employed to get votes for the duo on the iPads said:

We were sometimes 60 girls across the locality and the most effective areas were the schools. We visited in the breaks and asked students to vote. I earned 10 euro per hour doing it.

This open revelation, combined with the lack of admittance from DVLM’s management does indeed raise the question of ethics or the lack of, in the run to become World’s No. 1 DJ.