Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That Lil Nas X spent all of $30 to purchase the beat for "Old Town Road" has become the stuff of music-industry legend. As the ...

Music marketplace BeatStars is opening up administrative publishing deals, made in partnership with Sony Music Publishing, to all. By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer The BeatStars team has spent the ...

Global music marketplace BeatStars, where Lil Nas X found his "Old Town Road" beat, has paid out more than $50 million to producers who license and sell their work on the platform. By Chris Eggertsen ...

AUSTIN, Texas, March 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, BeatStars is disrupting the music industry once again by making the clearance of intellectual property rights more streamlined, affordable, and ...

Before the internet, even superstar producers like Dr. Dre went to extreme lengths just to get their beats heard. The story goes that for Dr. Dre’s track, “Ask Yourself A Question,” to land on ...

That Lil Nas X spent all of $30 to purchase the beat for “Old Town Road” has become the stuff of music-industry legend. As the story goes, a 19-year-old Dutch trap producer, Kiowa Roukema, who goes by ...