WhoSampled

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WhoSampled
Whosampled logo small.png
Type of businessSubsidiary
Type of site
Music website, music samples database
Available inEnglish
Founded2008;17 years ago (2008),
in London, England
Owner Spotify
Founder Nadav Poraz
URL whosampled.com
CommercialYes [1]
RegistrationOptional
Launched1 October 2008;17 years ago (2008-10-01) [2] [3]
Current statusActive

WhoSampled is a website and app database of information about sampled music or sample-based music, interpolations, cover songs and remixes. As of November 2025, the website contains 1,247,256 songs and 387,578 artists in its catalog. [4]

Contents

In November 2025, it was acquired by Sweden-based media firm and streaming service provider Spotify. [5]

History

Nadav Poraz [6] founded the site in London, England in 2008, as a way to track musical samples and cover songs. Mobile apps were released in 2012 and 2014 for iPhone and Android, respectively. [7]

The website's database is user-generated and reviewed by moderators before the content goes live. As of 2024, the site's most sampled track is "Amen, Brother" by the Winstons, which contains the most sampled drum break in music history, having been sampled in more than 7,000 songs. [8] [9]

In 2016, a year after adding support for movie and television clips, [10] it partnered with Spotify [11] and introduced 6D, a six degrees of separation-inspired game, that tracks relationships between artists, producers, and their tracks. [12] In 2017, WhoSampled partnered with KPM and Ableton and organised the third 'Samplethon' competition at Point Blank Studios in London. [13] [14] [15]

WhoSampled was acquired by Spotify in 2025. The platform and brand are to continue operating, and all subscription fees were removed. [16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "We speak to whosampled.com". DJ Mag. 24 September 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  2. ↑ "WhoSampled is 8 Years Old!". WhoSampled .
  3. ↑ "WhoSampled.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS . Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "About Us | WhoSampled". WhoSampled.
  5. ↑ "Spotify Technology S.A. acquired Whosampled.Com Limited". MarketScreener UK. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
  6. ↑ Khan, Basheera (1 December 2009). "Say it isn't so – WhoSampled reveals the rip-offs in music". TechCrunch . Retrieved 11 September 2010.
  7. ↑ Dredge, Stuart (23 September 2014). "With 1 million users, WhoSampled brings its music DNA exploration to Android". The Guardian . Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  8. ↑ Goldenberg, David (22 September 2016). "It Only Takes Six Seconds To Hear The World's Most Sampled Song". FiveThirtyEight . Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  9. ↑ "Sampled in More Than 6000 Songs". WhoSampled . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  10. ↑ Solomon, Katie (15 May 2015). "Get to the chopper! WhoSampled adds movie and TV sample clips". TechRadar . Archived from the original on 3 December 2019.
  11. ↑ Sawers, Paul (8 February 2016). "WhoSampled taps Spotify to show you who covered, remixed, or sampled your favorite songs". VentureBeat . Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  12. ↑ Pugsley, Adam (6 July 2016). "WhoSampled's new Six Degrees tool shows you how your favourite artists are connected". Chart Attack . Archived from the original on 7 July 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  13. ↑ "WHOSAMPLED PRESENTS 'SAMPLETHON' COMPETITION AT POINT BLANK LONDON WITH KPM & ABLETON". DJMag.com. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  14. ↑ "WhoSampled presents third Samplethon contest hosted by Point Blank Studios". www.solvdmag.com. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  15. ↑ "WhoSampled teams up with Sony/ATV for new Samplethon | Complete Music Update". www.completemusicupdate.com. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  16. ↑ Perez, Sarah (19 November 2025). "Spotify acquires music database WhoSampled". TechCrunch. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
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