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Originally posted by Yohan yeah, but not when it is so blatantly wrong. like having a prog house tune classified as trance lol

or house in breaks

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Originally posted by El K Dee or house in breaks

Or Electro House in Electronica (just to keep things going)

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Originally posted by Yohan LOL. Shows how much beatport knows about genres...

not overly impressed w/ only the 'techno' names that appear

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Originally posted by Shade Or Electro House in Electronica (just to keep things going)

or chillout in dnb

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Originally posted by El K Dee or chillout in dnb

Or progressive house in chillout

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Originally posted by Shade Or progressive house in chillout

or the existance of beatsource

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Originally posted by LKD or the existance of beatsource

wait...that didnt go with the flow

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Originally posted by Shade The labels generally decide when they ask for it to be categorized. Many labels will label tracks things they're not in order to generate sales, however (and others just don't care).

Yup thats the way it works but beatport can still change it to whatever they want.

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Originally posted by El K Dee wait...that didnt go with the flow

Conceptually, I like this whole awards for artists thing but it's not really accurate at all, so it's kinda useless.

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Originally posted by El K Dee wait...that didnt go with the flow

beatsource is sick lol

hmm dub/grime

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Originally posted by Yohan LOL. Shows how much beatport knows about genres...

i'm pretty sure it's the label that labels them.

sometimes it's simply to get an EP into a few different genre catagorys.

like one release with 4 tracks will have 2 in trance and 2 in progressive house...when all four should probably go into prog house.

EDIT: upon further review of the thread, someone already beat me to my above post. lol

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH But...wouldn't the tracks with the most sales be the most popular; thus more than likely receive the most votes?

i'm assuming that's how they already did the best tracks based on sales, but to do that for best artist categories would make it statistically biased.

a few examples;

if someone sells an album 1000 copies the ten tracks do 10000 sales but 7 of the tracks may be only average

if one producer does 300 tracks in the year and they all sell a few hundred but are pretty weak it stacks against someone who released only a few absolute top quality smashes

and in the case of a huge track (say adam k and soha's twilight which won prog category) with two or more producers would you split all the numbers or would they each get the full amount of points?

things like these would stack the odds against good producers with people who can turn out a lot of volume. quantity vs quality, and the "best" implies it should be about quality.