# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/virtual-riot
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:53:53.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/virtual-riot"
name: "Virtual Riot"
slug: "virtual-riot"
description: "Christian Valentin \"Val\" Brunn, better known by his stage name Virtual Riot, is a German DJ and electronic music producer. He has released seventeen extended plays and three studio albums, most notably his 2016 extended play Chemistry, which peaked at 20 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic Albums charts and 2018's extended play German Engineering, which peaked at No. 11 on the Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart. He was signed to the independent music label Disciple Recordings in 2014. On 16 April 2019, he announced a publishing deal with Skrillex's OWSLA."
tagline: "German electronic music producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Virtual_Riot_2025.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1994-07-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           66.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.601517333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 534000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Virtual_Riot"
    handle:    "Virtual_Riot"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/officialvirtualriot/"
    handle:    "officialvirtualriot"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/virtualriotmusic"
    handle:    "virtualriotmusic"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4FXGRMSHh2JjHxVwS8dhH1"
    handle:    "4FXGRMSHh2JjHxVwS8dhH1"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVtJOq_ziepf5MpjsTWxJeg"
    handle:    "@virtualriot"
    followers: 534000
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "ڤيرتوال ريوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Riot"
    title: "Virtual Riot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Riot"
    title: "Virtual Riot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Riot"
    title: "Virtual Riot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B2%84%EC%B6%94%EC%96%BC_%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4%EC%97%87"
    title: "버추얼 라이엇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Riot"
    title: "Virtual Riot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Riot"
    title: "Virtual Riot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Riot"
    title: "Virtual Riot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/33db34de-5419-4d4c-a45b-3dfd6b7d8a72"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17125764"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump