No one saw Lil Nas X coming. His race to ubiquity came impossibly quickly, and it’s a rare instance of an artist’s industry story — the making-of chronicle of an underdog star — becoming to wide ...

That Lil Nas X spent all of $30 to purchase the beat for “Old Town Road” has become the stuff of music-industry legend. As the story goes, a 19-year-old Dutch trap producer, Kiowa Roukema, who goes by ...

Music marketplace BeatStars is opening up administrative publishing deals, made in partnership with Sony Music Publishing, to all. By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer The BeatStars team has spent the ...

This acquisition builds on a partnership between BeatStars and Lemonaide, formed in 2023, to provide ethical AI tools to BeatStars creators. By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer Last week, BeatStars, the ...

“Old Town Road” is the little country/trap fusion that could–and almost didn’t. And it all stems from a teenage producer from the Netherlands and a website you’ve probably never heard of. In 2016, ...

Before the internet, even superstar producers like Dr. Dre went to extreme lengths just to get their beats heard. The story goes that for Dr. Dre’s track, “Ask Yourself A Question,” to land on ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. BeatStars and Lemonaide AI leadership announce acquisition aimed at integrating ethical ...

"Last night we've seen very unusual behavior with someone trying to enter into our servers, trying to access the database, trying to run code," Batshon said during the live stream on Tuesday, December ...

Austin-based company Beatstars Inc., the largest digital platform for buying and selling beats, is partnering with Sony/ATV in a joint venture allowing its users access to the latter’s publishing ...