Today’s the day (1 July) for Beatport’s leadership transition, with CEO Robb McDaniels handing over the electronic-music brand’s reins.
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Beatport saw surge in subscriptions from Latin America in 2025
Beatport’s business is growing rapidly in Latin America. The electronic-music service saw its user registrations in the region grow by 25% in 2025, and its paying subscriptions increase by 41%. […]
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Beatport launches its own Shazam-style ‘Track ID’ feature
It’s hard to remember a time when Apple’s Shazam had any kind of serious competition in the music-identification space – certainly for consumers. The new ‘Track ID’ feature in Beatport’s mobile […]
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Beatport CEO Robb McDaniels will step down in early July
There is a change at the top of electronic-music brand Beatport, with its CEO Rob McDaniels [pictured] revealing he will step down on 1 July after nine years leading the […]
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Beatport’s Beatsource to merge back into its parent platform
Back in 2019, Beatport teamed up with DJ City to launch a spin-off service called Beatsource focusing on ‘open format’ DJs – those who throw all manner of genres into their sets […]
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Emerging dance talent picked out in Beatport Next Class of 2026
It’s now six years since electronic-music brand Beatport launched its ‘Beatport Next’ scheme to support emerging artists.
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Beatport expands into ticketing with a Weeztix partnership
Electronic-music brand Beatport is getting into the ticketing space. It is launching Beatport Tickets as a partnership with Weeztix.
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Beatport talks open formats and why DJs are ‘more genre-fluid’
Beatport has built its brand on a deep catalogue of electronic music. But in September, the company added a group of ‘open format’ genres.
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Beatport launches a ‘Ray of Light’ remix contest with Madonna
27 years on from its release, Madonna’s ‘Ray of Light’ remains a verified banger. Now Beatport is hoping to fuel some new versions of the track with a remix contest. It’s […]
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Beatport’s ‘The Block’ gives emerging DJs a stage to shine on
Music Ally isn’t really the place to get your shipping-container news (that would be Container News, of course!) but today we have a story.
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Downtempo music gets its own category on Beatport
Here’s a pub debate for you: what’s the difference between Downtempo electronic music and Organic House? Beatport can tell you.
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Beatport’s streaming service now offers lossless FLAC audio
The latest streaming service adding hi-res audio is Beatport Streaming. That’s the service offered by Beatport to DJs, for whom audio quality is clearly more than just a gimmick. Lossless […]
