If a label on Beatport goes under?..

lunabass · Post by **lunabass** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:27 am

if a label doesn't sell enough units on beatport and beatport removes the label from their site for example, does that mean the tracks you've signed to that label will disappear from beatport also?

has this happened to anyone here?

toph · Post by **toph** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:21 am

Yes, the tracks definitely get removed with the label. - I speak from my own experience, but don't care.

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:56 am

Yep, me too. One day you look and POOF! they're gone. Good thing it was my first releases

Slightlydelic · Post by **Slightlydelic** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:44 pm

what is th criteria beatport use to boot labels off?

toph · Post by **toph** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:58 pm

I don't know in details, but it seems like it has to do with sale amounts and release frequency of the label.

Slightlydelic · Post by **Slightlydelic** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:03 pm

toph wrote:I don't know in details, but it seems like it has to do with sale amounts and release frequency of the label.

ah right, so you have sales targets to meet. and presumably as a tune gets old and sells less you need to release more tunes to keep the labels sales figures up at an acceptable standard?

contakt321 · Post by **contakt321** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:28 pm

I am too lazy to search, but someone actually posted that part of Beatport's contract on here at one point.

Can't remember, something like making a minimum of $500 gross per quarter or something similar.

Da hand · Post by **Da hand** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:02 pm

lunabass wrote:if a label doesn't sell enough units on beatport and beatport removes the label from their site for example, does that mean the tracks you've signed to that label will disappear from beatport also?

has this happened to anyone here?

Of course, they will disappear. The tracks are released on the label.

briandervish · Post by **briandervish** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:06 pm

$500 gross per quarter is correct. They used to have a probationary period of a year (and the gross was $300), but I'm not sure if they do that anymore.

Of course, all my tracks that were removed from Beatport are still on JunoDownload, DJdownload, MOS/Mixmag, Amazon, etc.... Don't let Beatport be the sole gatekeeper of electronic music!

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:11 pm

I think this is a good thing.

It's way easy for anybody to create a label.

It thins down the clusterfuck that is beatport.

Elitist DJs can still claim "limited pressing" if they got the track before it went bye bye.

Khazul · Post by **Khazul** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:37 pm

Turning this around - does anyone actually find beatport to be a useful outlet?

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:49 pm

Khazul wrote:Turning this around - does anyone actually find beatport to be a useful outlet?

It's the iTunes of Electronica, love or hate either, they get the largest amounts of traffic and there is some status associated.

contakt321 · Post by **contakt321** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:28 pm

beats me wrote:
Khazul wrote:Turning this around - does anyone actually find beatport to be a useful outlet?
It's the iTunes of Electronica, love or hate either, they get the largest amounts of traffic and there is some status associated.

Agreed.

That said, I shop there, but also Boomkat (the most), and Juno.

It's tough that no single site seems to carry all the records I am looking for - it's a little too much like real record stores

Bleep Blop Ima Robot · Post by **Bleep Blop Ima Robot** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:33 pm

i use beatport all the time and so do a lot of people i know.

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