Its both a good and a bad thing. How do new small new labels get started? How can you build that critical mass?

Itunes does something very similar. You must have a UPC for anything that you want to sell with them. I think its even more of a filter.

Maybe some of these labels will start considering alternative methods of distribution and help refine a music marketplace outside of the Beatport environment.

I'm not against the mainstream music marketplace, but I am against the Beatport factor... where regardless if your song is a hit or not. The value of a label is purely on their availability on Beatport.

A lot of new labels cannot enter to Beatport, maybe because they are saturated...
But they have very bad manners...They even do not ask a single mail.
Now select their suppliers by setting a limit sales...
I think that the policy of beatport is more like a major label to a store.
In a short time they only sold remixes of Cristina Aguilera and Enrique Iglesias :D
I don´t know why they have so many troubles to deal with the people...
maybe because they are the newbies?
They are not interested in the electronic or dance music scene, they handle a drugstore...
La culpa no es del chancho, si no del que le da de comer....

Truth is there is a lot of crap on Beatport. But not only in new releases, in the genre charts also; anything new (meaning 3 days old max) is supposed to be good.
I don't know where the problem is if they just try to improve their business. Maybe this is not the solution. They try, we'll see. About bad manners, in their forum, there are lots of complaints from labels trying to reach the to sell their music there... Beatport must have a hell of a success to ignore potential business partners.
Muy buena, Pablito R la del chancho

Maybe somthin like whats on junodownload where each track needs to be approved by the someone from juno download before it goes online.

they are SO rude.

Another example of "CORPORATE GREEDY MENTALITY".
with one purpuse only to sell and to make as much profit possiblE,AND FORGET QUALITY.
this is why the "majority" of music is so shit and sounding the same,

labels that want to produce something witch reflects quality cant do it because they have to make something more "comercial" to keep beatpork happy,or to keep to the figures up,And pay for the expenses,like, the house in caribean.and the the shallow bitch with the expensive coke habit.

not me.i havent fed the monster once.

Every DJ and Dance music fan has the same music because Beatport only promotes top labels. If you want music that is truly undergrownd and amazing then use Juno Downloads or Trackitdown !!!!

I totally agree with the complains about Beatport,

there is always a destruction after a creation: the democratic system of independent producer now has to be regulated by the web lobby.

They force you to you brokers to be in a shop, pay and then you can sell.

THe musicina was starting to be independent finally but the dream is gone.

The only way is to sell from your own website without any mafia system.

p.s.

confirm that juno and t.i.d. and dj download are the real producer partners. Hopefully they will remain like this.

good music everyone BOYCOTT BEATPORT ITUNES and the mafia system

Has anyone noticed that the have changed the currency from $ to Euro?...Without changing the price! That means some 25% raise on all of their tracks...

Didn't use BeatPort for quite some time. Changing from USD to EUR is the one thing, but leaving the prices unaffected is just gross...

Sounds as if some private equity company bought BeatPort and is now trying to increase dividend :-/

@Ex. Beatport Fan: Where do you live? I'm in New York and all prices are in USD.