At 18, Hennessy Music is already Grammy-nominated 🏆
The Belarus producer landed a credit on Glorilla's "Glorious" album (Best Rap Album nominee) with his production on "Glo’s Prayer." That's what's possible when you stay consistent, are a part of the right platform and surround yourself with the right people.
Join Hennessy Music on BeatStars: https://t.co/I1A0qqdlwR
It’s time - The Sinking City 2 Kickstarter is officially live 🦑🔥
We’ve poured our hearts and minds into this game, and now we need you to help shape its future. Back us today to support the project and unlock exclusive rewards 🎁
https://t.co/1LoKvo46GR
Friday, January 12th, 2024 was the biggest Marketplace sales day in our company’s 15+ year history.
Our goal of $400 million paid to creators this year is starting off in the right direction. Let’s go fam!
#BeatStarsRevolution 💪💪💪🅱️
#BeatStars x @VolocoApp 🤝
we’re bringing the world’s best beat catalog into the world’s most powerful mobile recording studio🔊🎙️
learn more about the partnership in our blog below👇
https://t.co/EQBH0ohDJS
I see a lot of love, confusion and frustration about our announcement yesterday at @BeatStars. We could have done a much better job explaining the impact of everything that’s going on and I sincerely apologize for that. But here is a break down of some of the important changes and why.
1. Marketplace plan is now Starter plan and is only $19.99/year vs $89 and now includes Publishing producer royalty collection and Seeds by Lemonaide. It still includes unlimited uploads of tracks, sound kits and services.
2. Pro Page is now called Professional and the price hasn’t changed. But now includes access to free ProKits from top members, 5% discount on all Promote campaigns, $50 in Promote credits, 3 monthly Beat ID credits and 250 credits for Lemonaide. We are adding much bigger perks to Pro this year. Can’t wait to show you guys.
3. We’ve removed Stripe and added a much more enhanced version of PayPal. We removed Stripe because they have not been able to handle the millions of collab sales. This blocks producers from being paid and buyers are being blocked from purchasing. The new PayPal integration we added includes payment methods like Venmo, Pay Later and on website Credit Card purchases that handles collab sale splits. We have plans to unveil an alternative global payment system this year that will unlock sales even more.
4. We’ve added a 12% buyer service fee only on the Marketplace to basically cover the millions of dollars in annual storage, delivery and discovery costs that the buyers have been enjoying for free for 15 years. Other marketplaces are charging the sellers up to 20% of transactions. This fee helps us keep the lights on and allows us to further expand on marketing, engineering and support. BeatStars unfortunately has reached a point financially where we will not be able to serve and operate to the best of our ability without making this change. We know how hard this change is for everyone including us but with the current economic climate it is a change we are forced to do in order for the company to survive and grow. We are currently working on new revenue generating offerings for producers that will help make this burden lighter for artists soon and will drive more sales.
5. Pro Page and Blaze players do not include a buyer service fee on transactions.
6. BeatStars has also been covering the sales tax for our sellers and buyers on transactions and have paid millions of dollars on behalf of our community to global tax authorities. Because we’ve always paid 100% of sales to sellers (and still do) this has also created a massive burden on our company that will not be sustainable for us to operate.
All in all yesterday was a really bitter sweet day for me because I know how frustrating it was for our creators to learn about these changes. But it was also the beginning of a new era at BeatStars that allows our company to go even harder for the community and provide even greater support. We may not see the positive impact of these changes immediately but I promise you our mission to empower creators worldwide has not wavered. If anything this moment will make the company and community stronger and will allow us to create even more disruptive opportunities for you. I’m sorry we failed at communicating everything clearly and I’m sorry you are dealing with bad product quality and support. I own that completely, and I am addressing all of this internally and have a game plan to come out better. But these are the growing pains of every company our size and we couldn’t be more thankful that we have a community that supports us through our challenging moments and our glorious ones. I promise you we are going to address all of our biggest obstacles and to continue making BeatStars a home where you all can build successful businesses for yourselves for many years to come. I love you all and I will not stop pushing forward even when the world is trying to stop us. Now it’s time for us to level up for you!
@DjStuntofficial @BeatStars With BeatStars, you are your own business. BeatStars does not control your path. So if you work hard and push for the top from a business and entrepreneur prospective you are well on your way in making sales and growing your career as a seller.👍
@MaxLaMaster2@Demzy_rhyne@BeatStars That's the art of mixing and mastering. You need to find the perfect balance between them all, and that can be achieved by using the EQ as stipulated in the image and once you are happy with all areas then that's the master you use.
@Demzy_rhyne@BeatStars Hi, you can apply the EQs respectfully and switch between them, or better yet, you can create these as presets on your EQ plugin and switch between presets for your listening pleasure. 🎶
A producer named Jamison just walked up to me at the airport just to say “thank you”. He said “thank you for building a platform where we can all get paid for our music.” This was a beautiful gift to start my day.
I thank God every day I get to serve good people like Jamison ❤️
@realmudzo @ChrisExcel102 Still robbed them blind. Does not matter how big of a co-sign theft is theft. If you see value in something don't degrade the artist just because they are not well known.
@SonySantaMonica@KindaFunnyVids@PlayStation Hi Team will VRR ever be fixed on God of War Ragnarok? I want to finish the game but this VRR issue is not making the experience great at all.
@xMBGx Elden ring will win however I don't like Elden ring personally. It will win because it was multiplatform and God of War already took game of the year 2018, doubt they will be honest in this win but hey that's how it goes.
@SonySantaMonica FIX VRR it's just silly to be turning off my settings just for God of War when every other game on PS5 with VRR is working with no issues.