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Originally posted by cryophonik Followed by the most epic drop of all time.

lol

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So if you add up the stats of deep-house, tech-house, house and progressive house, well the house scene is totally annihilating the other genres.

I am making up a new genre and calling it Cottage. It's a bit like House but more cozy with oozey melted cheese, hovering around 135bpm or so.

I would just like to suggest a lot of people may be buying some of the radio friendly and commercial EDM tracks off iTunes or listening to them on streaming services, resulting in Beatport selling less of those genres, even though they are still bigger overall.

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Originally posted by Trancelover03591 I would just like to suggest a lot of people may be buying some of the radio friendly and commercial EDM tracks off iTunes or listening to them on streaming services, resulting in Beatport selling less of those genres, even though they are still bigger overall.

Yeah, looking at BP stats alone is not very accurate. You'd need to take stats from several sources and put them together.

Could also be perhaps that dubstep producers were the least likely to buy hundreds of copies of their own song?

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery Yeah, looking at BP stats alone is not very accurate. You'd need to take stats from several sources and put them together.

Agreed. But having said that I suppose beatport being it's own beast and the largest DJ-centric download platform it is useful in it's own right.

The breaks thing is interesting though and I think it suffers from the same problem at macro level (i.e. sales and interest in the genre as a whole) as it does on micro level; it's get tired after about 30mins.

I love me some breaks, and from time to time i hear a track that I think is amazing but after I listen to a few tracks in a row, I'm desperate for a switch in to something else. I don't really get that with any other main genre (trance/house/deep house/Techno/Tech-house etc). Dubstep too but I knew the first time I head a dubstep track it was a phase. It'll still be around as a genre but in terms of popularity, it was a flash in a pan.

So You Think You Can Dance has even stopped using Dubstep now

Dubstep really is/was a one trick pony and it got tiresome pretty quickly. The genre itself may die, but a lot of the sounds will get incorporated into other styles.

The irony is that this simply isn't an accurate reflection of what people are really buying. Skrillex's album was absolutely massive in the mainstream charts like on iTunes. Trap is selling like crazy in the mainstream charts.

That's not to say that dubstep hasn't died in popularity a lot, but the interesting thing is that dubstep was never really that popular on Beatport. It was very popular on YouTube with UKF and other channels similar to it. It kind of got popular on Beatport for a bit as a result of Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, but most of the attention to the genre was paid elsewhere.

Skrillex's album is #3 in the iTunes dance charts, higher than Deadmau5's arguably better album at #7. It's #83 overall.

The vast majority of the music that charts and sells on Beatport doesn't even grace the iTunes charts at all.

Idk. I just think it's interesting more than anything.

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after 8 weeks in ibiza, deep house and headphone music are the way to go I think.

something weird has happened to trance recently, or maybe it's just my ears - stuff that sounds rich and lush on my studio setup doesn't sound good on club systems. the exception to this is the kind of askew/tyas/psytrance tracks that have a hyper produced bassline and kick.

it was interesting to truly immerse myself in the music culture on the island this summer.

back for closing!

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Originally posted by optik after 8 weeks in ibiza, deep house and headphone music are the way to go I think. something weird has happened to trance recently, or maybe it's just my ears - stuff that sounds rich and lush on my studio setup doesn't sound good on club systems. the exception to this is the kind of askew/tyas/psytrance tracks that have a hyper produced bassline and kick. it was interesting to truly immerse myself in the music culture on the island this summer. back for closing! t

Hmmm that sounds interesting as i haven't heard any Trance in clubs in ages, can you elaborate on the issue?