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Scrolled through the Beatport Top 100 for trance...
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
...and I noticed that Tiesto's remix of Delerium's "Silence" is (still?!) at #45. :wtf:
And it seems like fully 75 - 80% of the top 100 tracks are on labels owned by Tiesto, Armin, or Paul van Dyk.
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What makes these three guys and the producers they sign so perennially attractive to people? They really seem to have the market cornered in mainstream trance... |
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| chesco |
| peoples lack of imagination. |
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| Sykonee |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
What makes these three guys and the producers they sign so perennially attractive to people? |
Marketing monopoly, mostly. Common folks associate the word 'trance' with their names, thus their DJ sets; and which labels do you figure these guys are gonna mostly hammer out? |
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| Jono404 |
| Beatport doesn't stock that many trance labels, so the ones it does stock chart higher. Also Vandit, Armada etc are all big labels anyway so the effect is bigger. If you looked on the trackitdown or Audiojelly charts you'd probably get a better representation. |
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| MichaelBoogerd! |
| re-re-re--re-re-releasing the same track 10-fold, but on different compilation "packs" is Armada's trick. It keeps their trakcs in new releases section, and contributes more sales to dieing / dead releases that would otherwise be just a blip in the BP database. |
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| a98 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jono404
Beatport doesn't stock that many trance labels, so the ones it does stock chart higher. |
what are you talking about? there are load of trance labels in beatport, most of them just don't sell anything.. |
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| enydo |
| I think it's mainly the stranglehold type situation those jocks / labels have on the genre in general. When most people get into trance it's through something put out by said jocks / labels, and instead of branching out and sampling others genres and lesser-known artists people tend to stagnate in that boring little sliver of the edm spectrum. |
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| elFreak |
| i think that unicorns have threatened to horn bad boy bill in the anus,,loltrance. |
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| Sadface |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
...and I noticed that Tiesto's remix of Delerium's "Silence" is (still?!) at #45. :wtf:
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I look through the top 100 every couple of weeks or so to see what's up, and "Silence" hadn't been there until a month and a half ago or so. I don't know why it got in there to begin with, but at this point I think its being kept up by everyone scanning the top 100 and deciding to buy it for nostalgic purposes. |
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| Jono404 |
| Actually thinking about it it's probably because of that remix of Silence that's doing the rounds, probably got people buying the other older mixes too. |
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| Trance-MB |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
...and I noticed that Tiesto's remix of Delerium's "Silence" is (still?!) at #45. :wtf:
And it seems like fully 75 - 80% of the top 100 tracks are on labels owned by Tiesto, Armin, or Paul van Dyk.
:conf:
What makes these three guys and the producers they sign so perennially attractive to people? They really seem to have the market cornered in mainstream trance... |
Distributors also have a lot of influence, nowadays maybe more than labels. These three are popular so....
Also they probably have arranged things well from a commercial point of view. |
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| the_gamemaster |
| I wouldnt take any notice of the beatport charts if I were you. |
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