Beatport
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| Opened | January 7, 2004 |
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| Platforms | Cross-platform (web-based application) |
| Format |
MPEG Layer 3 (.mp3) @ 320 kbit/s, WAVE Audio (.wav), Audio Interchange File Format (.aiff) |
| Restrictions | None |
| Preview | Ad-free streaming of all songs |
| Website | www.beatport.com |
| Alexa rank |
 4,248 (February 2016[update]) |
Beatport is an electronic music-oriented online music store owned by LiveStyle. The company is based in Denver, Colorado with offices in Los Angeles, California, San Francisco, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Berlin, Germany. Beatport is oriented primarily towards DJs, selling full songs as well as resources that can be used for remixes.
Established in 2004, the service was acquired in 2013 by Robert F. X. Sillerman's company SFX Entertainment for a reported price of slightly over $50 million. In 2014, as part of an effort to widen its audience, Beatport expanded into original content oriented towards fans of electronic dance music, covering EDM news and culture, and offering on-demand music streaming from its catalog and live streaming events.
SFX Entertainment filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on February 1, 2016, and Beatport was subsequently put up for sale. However, in May 2016, SFX suspended its proposed auction of the company, and cut its streaming and original content operations in order to focus on its core music sales business. SFX has since emerged from bankruptcy as LiveStyle, and continues to operate as an online music store.
The first version of Beatport's web store, Beatport 1.0, was released on January 7, 2004 and consisted of 79 electronic music record labels in its catalog. Half a year later, Beatport was beginning to become recognized after a few collaborations with well-known DJs and partnerships with the technology company Native Instruments. In January 2005, a revised Beatport 2.0 was released, with a catalog of over 100,000 tracks supplied by 2,700 signed labels. Beatport was also made accessible through a scaled-down GUI embedded within DJ software: Traktor DJ Studio by Native Instruments. On August 7, 2006 Beatport released Beatport 3.0 Fully Loaded, the third version of its original store, which featured improvements to navigation, customized content subscription via My Beatport, and new payment options.
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