Famously the site where Lil Nas X bought the $30 trap beat he used in ‘Old Town Road’, BeatStars has continued to grow its business.
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Musiio signs BeatStars as a client, tagging 20k tracks a day
AI music analysis startup Musiio has announced its latest client: BeatStars, the beats and samples marketplace.
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Production marketplace BeatStars gets into music publishing
BeatStars is more than just a production marketplace: it’s moving into music publishing in partnership with Sony Music Publishing
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Beats marketplace BeatStars expands into distribution
BeatStars is the online music marketplace that famously sold Lil Nas X the $30 trap beat that he’d use for ‘Old Town Road’.
By June 2019, the company had paid out more than $50m to its community of producers supplying beats for sale, and that had grown to $70m by April 2020, when BeatStars signed a deal with Sony/ATV for the latter to provide its community with publishing and administration services.
Now there’s a new figure for payouts – $85m – and the announcement of a move into traditional distribution.
BeatStars Distribution will offer services for its 2m+ musicians to put their music on more than 30 download stores and streaming services, according to MBW, charging a flat monthly fee of $1.99 with musicians keeping 100% of their royalties.
The company says it signed up more than 4,000 artists for the new tool in its first week after launching.
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Sony/ATV teams up with music production marketplace BeatStars
Music Ally first wrote about production marketplace BeatStars back in June 2012, when we noted that it had already been dubbed ‘the iTunes of beats’. Eight years on, it’s now famous as the website […]
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Beats online-store BeatStars has paid out $50m so far
BeatStars is one of the websites where artists and producers can go to buy beats to use in their new tracks, and it’s currently enjoying a spell in the limelight […]
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Lil Nas X bought the underlying trap beat for Old Town Road for $30
Rolling Stone has an interesting feature on the backstory to ‘Old Town Road’ by Lil Nas X (a song we presume you’ve heard at least 853 times by now). It broke, […]
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BeatStars is “the iTunes of beats”
BeatStars is a new virtual audio production marketplace where songwriters, producers and vocalists can either sell their productions or buy a beat, hook or chorus for their next masterwork.