Beatport Announces Winners for Beatport Awards 2014

[Cupe]

Beatport, an SFX Entertainment company, is the world’s largest community and music store platform for providing music, a plethora of resources and tools for DJs to build and manage their careers. The Beatport charts have crossed over onto the mainstream, holding weight for those who reach the #1 spots. Released today slowly through their various social channels, the winners of 2014 Beatport Awards include a variety of different honorees such as Martin Garrix for “Animals” for Best-Selling Original Track Of The Year (Beatport Sales), Flume for Beatport’s Best New Artist (Beatport Editorial), Spinnin’ Records as Label of the Year (Community Choice) and much more.

“On behalf of all of us here at Beatport, I’d like to congratulate all the winners of this year’s Beatport Awards,” said Beatport CEO Matthew Adell. “2013 was a pivotal year in the evolution of dance music, something each of the names on this list contributed to with their talent, passion, and creativity. They certainly deserve all the recognition they are now receiving, and I’m incredibly honored to present them with the honor of a Beatport Award.”

Check out the full list of awards below, which includes categories such as Beatport Sales Awards, Beatport Editorial Awards and Community Choice Awards with subcategories such as Best-Selling Album of the Year, Beatport’s DJ of the Year, Track of the Year and much more. Congratulations to the winners!

For more information, visit http://beatport.com/awards.

Beatport Sales Awards

(Based on unit sales from January 1 – December 31, 2013)

- Best-Selling Album of the Year: Random Access Memories (Daft Punk)

- Best-Selling Original Track of the Year: “Animals” (Martin Garrix)

- Best-Selling Remix of the Year: “Got A Feeling (Bontan Remix / Pleasurekraft Edit)” (Josh Butler, Bontan, Pleasurekraft)

- Best-Selling Compilation of the Year: Toolroom Ten (Various Artists)

- DJ Choice Award (for the track appearing in the most Beatport DJ Charts): “Animals” (Martin Garrix)

Beatport Editorial Awards

(Selected by a panel of Beatport staff experts)

- Beatport’s DJ of the Year: Nina Kraviz

- Beatport’s Musical Collaboration of the Year: Borderland (Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald)

- Beatport’s Best New Artist: Flume

- Beatport’s Lifetime Achievement: Cajmere (a/k/a Green Velvet)

- Beatport’s Track of the Year: “Jack” (Breach)

Community Choice Awards

(Selected by online fan voting taking place from Feb. 13 – Feb. 28)

- Album of the Year: Intense – Extended Versions (Armin Van Buuren)

- Track of the Year: “Mammoth” (Dimitri Vegas, Like Mike, Moguai)

- Label of the Year: Spinnin’ Records

- Artist of the Year: Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike

[Mitch]

Editorial picks are reasonable

Sales and community picks = :puke:

[Addi]

Editorial picks are reasonable

Sales and community picks = :puke:

Was thinking the same thing.

[BeatLeSS]

Didn't even know what Animals was til the mau5 macdonald mash. Heard it, but didn't know name/artist.