Sillerman's SFX Entertainment, a conglomerate focusing on EDM properties such as festivals and promoters. In February 2013, Beatport was acquired by Robert F.X. 2013–2015: SFX, pivot towards original content The annual revenue of Beatport for 2012 was reportedly around $15–18 million, with losses of $2 million. Beatport officially added AIFF downloads as an option on their platform on September 9, 2011. On July 14, 2011, Beatport launched their HTML5 website with new features, designs and a new platform. As a newer version of the store, it integrated the use of an Adobe Flex 3 web application provided by RealEyes Media. Multiple features were added to the site including embedded artwork in purchased music, a new user-preference system named 'My Beatport', keyboard shortcuts and sitewide multilingual support. The third version of the online store, named 'The New Beatport', was released on January 21, 2009. The nominees for the BMAs are based solely on unit sales at Beatport. The BMAs are broken down into 19 categories, including Best Artist categories from each genre, Best Remix, and Best Single. Each year Beatport users can vote for the best electronic music artists in an effort to trace the progress of these artists over the years or determine which has the largest growing fan base. Following up on the idea of the community-oriented site, Beatport introduced the Beatport Music Awards on March 18, 2008. In August 2007, Beatport launched a community-oriented music site, Beatportal, whose stated mission is '.to provide music lovers with up-to-date information about the world of electronic music'. Built using Adobe Flash and HTML, the player gives users the ability to create custom, dynamic playlists from song previews of Beatport's catalog to be embedded into nearly any HTML website. In February 2007, Beatport launched the Beatport Player, a viral marketing web widget to play back relevant content by Artist, Label, Genre, and Chart. 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. Beatport was also made accessible through a scaled-down GUI embedded within DJ software: Traktor DJ Studio by 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. 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. The first version of Beatport's web store, Beatport 1.0, was released on Januand consisted of 79 electronic music record labels in its catalog. Previous Beatport logo used from 2004 to 2021. Beatport emerged from the bankruptcy debt free and profitable and continues to operate as an online music store. SFX has since emerged from bankruptcy as LiveStyle.

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 Entertainment filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on February 1, 2016, and Beatport was subsequently put up for sale. 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. Sillerman's company SFX Entertainment for a reported price of slightly over $50 million. Įstablished in 2004, the service was acquired in 2013 by Robert F. Beatport is oriented primarily towards DJs, selling full songs as well as resources that can be used for remixes.

The company is based in Denver, Los Angeles, and Berlin. American electronic music-oriented online music store Beatportīeatport is an American electronic music-oriented online music store owned by LiveStyle.

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