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How to get a Beatport Number 1

Rebecca Smart Bakken
6 min readNov 29, 2023

Every electronic music producer’s wet dream… Getting their music release to chart the Beatport number 1 spot. First, the release’s genre chart but then climbing up that coveted Top 100 overall *drool*.

This means that the track is the most downloaded music release by other DJs, electronic music producers, and avid music collectors.

Ensuring your music is being played all over dancefloors worldwide… and is spreading like fire.

But how do you get a Beatport number 1? Of course, creating quality music is the first and main part of this recipe. The music needs to be *chefs kiss* GOOD.

Let me share how we got that sweet number one spot with BLOND:ISH’s track Tra Tra and the long journey it took to get there.

1. Music Collaboration

With this specific track BLOND:ISH was collaborating with music producer Hugel and reggaeton artist Nfasis. When you collaborate with other artists, you get access to new audiences through their fanbase.

Hugel is growing fast in the Latin House genre and Nfasis is a big reggaeton artist from the Dominican Republic. This was a great way for BLOND:ISH to tap into a new audience through their brands and vice versa.

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Rebecca Smart Bakken
Rebecca Smart Bakken

Written by Rebecca Smart Bakken

Founder of SMART Music Agency. Driving change in the new music industry through innovative marketing strategies. Specialising in content marketing for musicians

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