Banned Releases From Beatport: Ultra, Dim Mak, Armada, Magik Muzik, Big Beats & 36 More Labels Caught Cheating!

Beatport recently posted an article on their blog about the consequences and costs of manipulating the charts, some artists and labels still don't seem to care about those consequences, charting seems to be too important. Many releases were caught trying to cheat on beatport to make their songs get in the Top10 and Top100 charts.

At first you might think only smaller labels and less known artists would do such a thing, but you're wrong. Some of the worlds' most influential labels like Ultra, Dim Mak (Steve Aoki), Armada (Armin Van Buuren), Magik Musik (Tiesto) have been caught and got their releases taken down.

Here's a list of labels that have been caught only once cheating to get their tracks in the charts:

 Dim Mak, Magik Muzik, Coldharbor Recordings, Cinq 7, Housesession Records, Shinshy Records, Zero Urban Records, Fluo, 2sonic Records, Starside Records, C4C Recordings, Marcro Records, Hysterical, FFRR, Hollister Records, Sinitation Records, Miniaturerecs, Twin Turbo Records, Marfil Records, Preston Recordings, Amazing Records, Sphera Records, The Groove Society, PRMD, Bonnies Records, Parlophone UK, Zouk Recordings, Armind, Material Records, Sound Division Records, Samui Recordings, Maracaido Records, Evolution Music, Euphonic Records, Move Rec, Enormous Tunes, Molto Recordings and Groovejet Records.


Some of them don't learn from their mistakes and have been caught more than once like:    

Big Beats Recordings,  Tiger Records, Oxyd Records and Armada Music.


The banned releases includes artists like:

Galantis, David Guetta, Avicii, Mark Knight, Chuckie, Robbie Rivera, Thomas Newsound, Blasterjaxx, Armin Van Buuren, Joe Ghost, Dakota, Denis Sheperd and many many more!


Something is surprising though, Spinnin' Records is either clean or didn't get caught yet, maybe they are more legit than people actually think!

To verify that this list is actually true and accurate, we verified a few banned songs and you can see that most of them removed the beatport links from their soundcloud and added only the itunes links instead. If you look for the track on beatport, you get an error message saying:

The question is: 

Are the repercussions for cheating heavy enough? 

What consequences do labels actually get from doing that (except get the track taken down)? 

Is having their release banned from beatport enough? 

It seems pretty light to me and it doesn't seem to prevent some of them from cheating again and again.

If you want to check out the full list of the banned releases, please visit Beatport Banned Official Tumblr

[We can't say if this list is 100% accurate, it does seem to be but until we have the word from beatport, some of these releases might have been accidentally taken down]

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