It's no secret that dance music megastore Beatport struggles with people trying to 'game the system.' Last month inthemix interviewed a 'dance music marketing' company' that claimed it could get a track into the top 30 of the main Beatport Top 100 chart for an investment of around $3000, by employing people around the world to purchase the track en masse.
Beatport is more than aware of the existence of these scams and delivered a stinging rebuke on their news page recently to would be scammers, warning that, 'When we spot a boosted record or track, we remove it from the store, and we'll continue to do so. Our next step is to permanently ban the offending artists and labels...'
So when a Tumblr called Beatport Banned Tracks started doing the rounds online, it's understandable that many people took it at face value. Trance veteran John '00' Fleming was one of many to post the Tumblr page to Facebook, adding, 'Eventually one of the big companies has made a stand against people cheating... well done Beatport for making a stand against people rigging the sales charts.'
Unfortunately, it appears that the Tumblr isn't a real thing: a search of the list of supposedly banned tracks reveals that the majority of them are still available for sale on Beatport, and Beatport itself hasn't made any statement on the veracity of the page.
The purpose behind the Tumblr isn't quite clear: neither their Facebook page nor Twitter reveal any 'About' information; inthemix reached out for comment but had not received a reply by the time of publication. Is it an exercise in snark, calling out tracks they feel should be banned by Beatport? Or just someone with too much time on their hands? Only time will tell, but it does serve as a valuable lesson about not believing everything you see on Tumblr.
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