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 ...

This acquisition builds on a partnership between BeatStars and Lemonaide, formed in 2023, to provide ethical AI tools to BeatStars creators. By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer Last week, BeatStars, the ...

“Old Town Road” is the little country/trap fusion that could–and almost didn’t. And it all stems from a teenage producer from the Netherlands and a website you’ve probably never heard of. In 2016, ...

Throughout 2018, Lil Nas X purchased a slew of backing tracks from BeatStars, an online music licensing platform where recording artists buy beats from producers. His most significant purchase came on ...