If you’re searching for dance music with an infectious beat that will get everyone moving, Beatport, Traxsource and Junodownload may all offer options online.
This website offers royalty free tracks that have been approved for DJ sets. Furthermore, users can take advantage of their free service that enables them to download high-quality digital music files.
Beatport
Beatport was established in 2004 to become the go-to source for electronic music DJs and their fans worldwide. Offering premium digital formats in addition to personalized DJ discovery tools created specifically by and for DJs. Headquartered in Denver, Los Angeles and Berlin with consumer brands such as Loopcloud (sales of sound packs subscription) and Plugin Boutique (selling musical plug-ins), Beatport serves a range of services for music industry professionals as well as DJs themselves.
Since Beatport launched, over $300 million has been distributed to independent dance music labels through royalties payments – with 259 million tracks being sold via its platform. This success can be attributed largely to its immense popularity amongst dance music fans and producers; Beatport is dedicated to supporting independent musicians while upholding musical integrity; it paid out over $71 million through royalty payments alone in 2019.
Beatport recently introduced Beatport LINK, a subscription service that allows users to stream audio directly into performance software and hardware. Available either as a stand-in app or packaged with Beatport CLOUD for DJs, this offering allows users to seamlessly integrate music streaming directly into performance software and hardware.
Beatport provides an alternative retail model by teaming up with digital distributors such as RA and Kwettr to distribute tracks via their platforms, enabling it to increase attention and grow its audience despite stiff competition from DSPs like Spotify and SoundCloud. In addition, its Hype platform helps boutique labels gain more traction on Beatport with organic search results for their releases on Hype.
Traxsource
Producers in the dance music scene remain busy during winter months as they produce what could become next year’s hits. Once released, these releases will appear on Traxsource charts that showcase artists, labels and DJs over time; providing producers with information to assess how successful their marketing efforts have been.
Traxsource is an electronic music store offering a diverse selection of electronic tracks. They provide services for musical artists including free distribution and playlist promotion; additionally they have an A&R team available to help promote your music and generate revenue streams; finally the site hosts many charts such as Weekend Weapons, Hype Chart, What’s Hot and Genre Essentials that provide artists with additional opportunities.
All services, music, materials and other content provided on the Website (collectively known as “Site Content”) are owned or licensed to Traxsource and subject to intellectual property rights laws of both the US and other countries. No part of Site Content may be copied, distributed, modified or reproduced without first receiving express written approval from Traxsource.
Traxsource provides both standard and premium music distribution services; with this latter one offering access to over 150 additional digital stores at a fraction of their usual costs while offering other perks such as ad removal and cover art creation services for an affordable fee.
Traxsource provides musicians looking to enhance their visibility with Traxsource with the option to register a label name registration, making this premium distribution service even more useful for them. In order to register with Traxsource as a label name registration service provider, first create an account with iMusician and have several releases in your catalog before registering them on Traxsource through your release details page in your dashboard dashboard.
Junodownload
Junodownload is one of the world’s leading independent digital music stores, providing MP3 and WAV downloads around the globe every week and streaming via its website. Offering over 5 million mp3, wav and aac titles spanning dance and electronic genres alike using its search function; weekly updates in terms of new releases, promos and DJ charts on its homepage as well as genre pages; you can purchase individual tracks or full albums make Junodownload an invaluable option.
Juno’s editorial team selects and promotes several releases each week for exposure on their website, social media networks and newsletter. Furthermore, podcasts or DJ charts may discuss them to reach a wide audience – providing musicians an ideal way of reaching a larger target market.
An effective way to increase your odds of being featured by Juno Download is charting your release on DJ charts. These charts measure downloads, streams, and plays of your release; more DJs or fans that chart it will help it rank higher on these charts. To create one yourself you can submit it via Juno’s DJ Chart submission form.
As a label or artist, the ideal strategy for distributing releases to multiple digital service providers at once is the easiest way to reach a wider audience. An efficient release management system such as LabelGrid will save time and effort when delivering releases manually to each platform, and enable you to manage your catalogue across platforms with ease.
SoundCloud
SoundCloud is one of the world’s premier music streaming platforms, and their team of professionals are dedicated to helping you leave an indelible mark with your audience. Their tools will assist independent musicians or established artists alike reach new listeners and build solid fan bases; furthermore, SoundCloud will give insight into how your tracks are performing so you can improve and expand.
SoundCloud once competed directly with services like Spotify and Apple Music, but has recently pivoted towards providing tools music creators need. This strategy may prove fruitful; many artists who began their careers on SoundCloud have gone on to become major talents like Snoop Dogg discovered Iza Lach on SoundCloud before signing her to his label and Post Malone having his song White Iverson gain significant traction garnered Republic Records deals after seeing plenty of plays on it.
SoundCloud streaming is free, yet they also provide premium subscription options. Their Pro plan provides unlimited uploads and downloads as well as monetization tools; their Pro Unlimited plan gives access to additional platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music; in both cases SoundCloud’s Audio Mastering service is included with these plans.
SoundCloud Communities allow you to follow specific playlists or channels of music that fits your taste. You can create your own community to share with others or follow existing ones such as Scenes, Hustle, AURAS Circuits etc. Additionally, SoundCloud hosts regular events including its Live series.
Bandcamp
Bandcamp is an online music distribution platform that gives artists complete control of their releases. They can decide the price for songs, albums or bundles as well as customize each release with album art, track credits, lyrics and an ISRC number for tracking purposes. Furthermore, their pages can be set as public or subscriber-only pages where merch can be sold or proceeds given directly to charity – unlike digital distributors like DistroKid or CD Baby who send returns later; Bandcamp sends artist returns immediately which can be particularly helpful to smaller independent artists.
One of the hallmarks of Bandcamp’s strength lies in its encouragement for fans to tip their favorite musicians. This can take many forms – from paying just one dollar up front or making a donation as part of their purchase to buying songs in any currency and adjusting prices with FOREX exchange rates – enabling your music to reach listeners around the globe and paying you in any currency of your choosing!
Bandcamp stands out in part by its dedication to independent artists. It serves as an antidote against artistic monoculture created by digital life’s consolidation into the hands of few companies; ultimately it serves as a place where listeners can discover unique and beautiful sounds that might otherwise go unseen by mainstream audiences.
The platform is user-friendly and requires no technical expertise – simply sign up, fill in your details, and upload your music for the process to begin. After uploading it to the website, you can view its performance through various tabs that display sales history for seven days, 30 days or all time sales; additionally you can download a detailed sales report so you can keep tabs on its success more closely.