I stumbled upon this interesting discussion recently over at GU forums. Jay Epoch (label manager for Proton Music) has kicked off an interesting thread worth checking out.
Jay writes:
I've watched sales dwindle each month as Beatport adds more and more labels releasing more and more music. During the month of December, Beatport set a last minute deadline for labels to get releases to them if they wanted to get music out by the end of the year. As a result, there were far fewer releases on Beatport in December. We managed to get our releases turned in on time, but many labels didn't. Sales for these releases we got turned in were about 2-3x that of the normal releases. This got all of the releases into genre top 100 charts.
Anyway, here's the money line:
Anyway, I'm sharing this because I just got this notification from Beatport: "Any label that cannot produce $300.00 in GROSS sales each quarter will be put on a probationary status. If the label is unable to hit the $600.00 mark by the second quarter then that label will be cut from the Beatport system [...] by increasing your promotions outside of the Beatport store and providing a consistent new release schedule we are confident that many of our low producing labels will be able to achieve the quarterly sales goal."
Thank you very much. Maybe there's finally some sort of quality control being implemented. I'm sick of browsing through loads of crap everytime I log in to Beatport. But let's not be so fast here: I know that there's plenty of amazing small labels on Beatport that can't produce those proposed numbers. What about them?
Less crap in the future? Maybe not.
Jesse Brede Jan 21, 2008 | 11:28 AM |
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. |
Vergel E Jan 21, 2008 | 05:44 PM |
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. |
PablitoR Jan 25, 2008 | 05:06 PM |
A lot of new labels cannot enter to Beatport, maybe because they are saturated... |
Minotronic Jan 26, 2008 | 06:00 PM |
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. |
Tom Feb 07, 2008 | 01:19 PM |
Maybe somthin like whats on junodownload where each track needs to be approved by the someone from juno download before it goes online. |
Ant_ Feb 15, 2008 | 07:13 AM |
they are SO rude. Another example of "CORPORATE GREEDY MENTALITY". 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. |
Beatport SUCK! Feb 17, 2008 | 11:07 PM |
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 !!!! |
Gigi Feb 20, 2008 | 06:54 AM |
I totally agree with the complains about Beatport,
They force you to you brokers to be in a shop, pay and then you can sell.
p.s.
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Ex. Beatport Fan Feb 26, 2008 | 05:19 AM |
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... |
Florian Feb 27, 2008 | 10:14 AM |
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 :-/ |
Sotek ![]() Feb 27, 2008 | 02:08 PM |
@Ex. Beatport Fan: Where do you live? I'm in New York and all prices are in USD. |