Beatport is taking applications for the 2027 class of its year-long artist development program, Beatport Next, through this Friday, November 6.
Beatport has opened applications for the 2027 class of Beatport Next, its artist development programme, with the entry window closing November 6, 2026.
Beatport has split "Indie Tech" out of its broader indie dance category into a standalone genre with its own Top 100 chart, a taxonomy call that will steer which producers and labels get found.
Beatport has secured new capital from Square Nine Capital, a firm founded by Peter Ma, in a debt deal that refinances its existing credit facility and funds platform and product expansion, with the amount undisclosed.
The Beatport Awards 2026, handed out April 23 at IMS Ibiza, split cleanly between sales-chart winners like Chris Lake and Defected and culture picks like Josh Baker and Cecille Records, exposing a real gap between what the platform's customers buy and what its own panel wants to crown.
Beatport will livestream all four stages of Pepsi MAX presents Creamfields 2026 from August 28 to 30, per Beatportal, extending its business from download store and streaming service into live festival broadcast.
Apple Music will start showing listeners a visible "Made With AI" label on tracks later this year, but the whole system runs on labels and distributors self-reporting, with no independent detection behind it.
Beatport Connect returns to the W Hollywood on September 25, 2026, with a first wave of speakers focused on sync licensing, diversity in festival programming and building a sustainable DJ career.
Beatport will withhold fully or majority AI-generated tracks at ingestion under updated Content Guidelines, using an expanded detection partnership with fraud-tracking firm Beatdapp to flag them before DJs ever see them.
Spotify erased more than 500,000 fake streams used to rig a $3 million Kalshi prediction-market bet on June's most-streamed US song, exposing a financial incentive to manipulate any chart, electronic music's included.
Rekordbox 7.2.16, out July 9, lets Phase timecode vinyl connect wirelessly over HID mode, finally freeing DVS scratch DJs from the USB tether that used to run to the booth.
Beatport's new free Greenroom hub gives any artist or label with music on the store real-time access to downloads, DJ-follower growth and streaming numbers that used to be scattered or invisible.
Beatport's mid-year 2026 review confirms tech house on top, but the movement is elsewhere: afro house going mainstream, Brazilian funk and Latin electronic breaking through, and UK garage crossing to American floors.
Beatport has launched Greenroom, a free hub that finally shows artists and labels their real Beatport numbers: DJ downloads, streams, followers, chart moves and features, all in one dashboard.
Beatport launched Greenroom, a free hub where artists and labels claim and run their own profile and, for the first time, see downloads, DJ followers and DJ streams in one dashboard.
The house and soulful download store is removing fully AI-generated music and labelling everything else, the hardest line a major platform has drawn on AI.
Beatport's Track ID is a music-recognition tool inside its mobile app built specifically to name electronic tracks in noisy clubs and through pitch-shifted, time-stretched DJ blends, and the company says it could eventually feed accurate setlist data to recover unpaid performance royalties.
Juno Download, the digital store that served DJs and collectors since 2006, is closing, its COO blaming streaming’s dominance and the rise of direct-to-fan platforms.
At Rio's Hot Beats conference, Beatport pitched Brazil as one of the world's top-10 electronic markets, pushed its Brazilian Funk genre to the local trade, and rolled out a 60 percent discount in reais to win the buyers it has been losing.
Beatport's new Track ID looks like a Shazam for clubs, but its CRO frames it as early infrastructure for setlist reporting, the same uncollected-performance-royalty problem that sank DVS1's Aslice in 2024.
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