x

What if Beatport doesn't have it (yet)???

Home 2023 › Forums › The DJ Booth › What if Beatport doesn't have it (yet)???

Viewing 10 posts - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • July 21, 2014 at 2:44 pm #2044586
    Marco Solo
    Participant

    I think they are regarded as pop and therefore not available. Unless there is an album available you probably won’t find it. I don’t personally experience this as I don’t really care for pretty much anything that’s in the top 40 😛
    If I wanted to find one of these tracks you have so many options it’s silly. There’s itunes, 7digital, the top40 website itself, amazon, the website of the label, the website of the artist, or you just buy their cd (yes, they still make those!).

    July 21, 2014 at 3:40 pm #2044598
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    Ok, just to be clear. This is not the regular TOP 40 website I was talking about (I only keep an eye on that because of my mobile DJ-ing), but this is an actual DANCE chart.

    Tracks on it are based on what is played in clubs. It’s significantly different from what’s in the TOP 40 charts.

    Quite a few of the tracks are of artists that have multiple tracks for sale on Beatport, just not those.

    Oh well, I’ll be hitting the other sites. Just odd if you think that Beatport portrays itself as the primary site for mainstream dance tracks, to the point that the Beatport Top 10 is almost considered POP or TOO commercial by some of our brethren here.

    July 22, 2014 at 10:31 am #2044869
    Lamid45G
    Participant

    If I’m 100% relying on Beatport chart to spin in my home country, i prolly resign as a DJ
    Since 50% of the local clubs music policy limited/restricted the use of the type of music we found in Beatport chart, kind of annoying in a way especially if we got behind in our music updates and we have our upcoming gig in one of those 50% clubs next week or something

    July 22, 2014 at 3:04 pm #2044917
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    Hey Rizki, my point wasn’t so much whether or not BeatPort (in general) is a good place to buy stuff, but why they are not as up to date as I expected they would be. I think it’s ridiculous of a club to limit/restrict music based on what is certain charts, but that is just me personally.

    July 24, 2014 at 10:11 am #2045471
    Lamid45G
    Participant

    Yeah, club music Policy its just gettin retarded everyday, i mean we the artist right ? so let us paint whataver picture we want wihout dealin with the club politics,

    Share me your secrets Chuck what would be other place besides Beatport? so I wont be one of those Beatport Top 100 DJ’s *_*

    July 25, 2014 at 1:11 am #2045724
    Marco Solo
    Participant

    Is it from this site?->http://www.dutchdancelists.com/
    If so, Koala is not out yet (August 4), Hat Tricks, Right Here and Down On My Luck can be considered pop, 4 & 5 are in the Dutch language, and the rest is on beatport. So nothing too shocking if you ask me. Some of them were even exclusives on beatport, like the one from Sander Kleinenberg.

    July 25, 2014 at 1:14 pm #2045865
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    Hey Marco,

    Cheers and yes, that’s the site. At the time of checking, there were 13 songs not on Beatport (out of the entire TIP 15 the TOP 10 and the newcomers (only 3 this week) in the TOP 40. I already cut them the slack for tracks 4 & 5 being Dutch songs so logically not on Beatport. You explained away 4 more (won’t discuss pop or not as I think that’s not all too relavant. It’s a chicken and an egg question really, isn’t it. Is it a dance track with such a wide appeal that it get’s played on radio and bought enough to hit regular Top 40 charts and thus becomes a pop track? Or is it a pop track that is so danceable that people want to hear it in venues and thus becomes a dance track), leaving 7 more unaccounted for from a grand total of 28. I didn’t check but I am willing to accept the rest of the Dance TOP 40 was on Beatport.
    7 out of 28 means 25% and since I am somewhat of a statician, that qualifies as significant 😀

    It’s very well possible that some of those tracks already hit BP in the meantime.

    At the end of the day it’s neither a complaint nor a serious question, more like curious and what do people do when they want tracks that are already played out in their country but can’t be found at BP, assuming they qualify as dance tracks.

    Greetinx m8 & keep spinning!

    July 25, 2014 at 4:40 pm #2045951
    Marco Solo
    Participant

    I can’t really define why exactly, but I just categorise them as pop in my head. I see other people doing the same. But I admit that I have seen tracks on beatport that I would put in the pop box. Nobody has the same criteria, and you kind of showed that in your investigation. I think that a better distinction would be if they were widely available, although it would be a pain to test that.
    Beatport can do whatever they want and if they don’t see it as a beatport kind of track, they won’t provide it.

    Maybe you can ask them what their criteria are for putting tracks up for sale. That would be interesting information.

    July 25, 2014 at 7:20 pm #2046003
    Marco Solo
    Participant

    I went ahead and asked them myself:

    Q: “This is just a question out of curiosity, not a complaint. The charts these days have a lot of EDM inspired tracks in them, yet cannot be found on beatport.
    What are the criteria for beatport to put tracks up for sale or not?”

    A: “Thank you for contacting us. It depends on the type of contract the distributer holds. For example, if they have an exclusive agreement with iTunes, they might not be able to release content on other websites for a period of time after the track is released.”

    So they might have an exclusive deal with itunes, just like the exclusives you see on beatport.

    July 26, 2014 at 9:29 pm #2046378
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    Guess that answers that. Thanks, Marco!

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 10 posts - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)
  • The forum ‘The DJ Booth’ is closed to new topics and replies.