WhoSampled

WhoSampled is a website and app database of information about sampled music or sample-based music, interpolations, cover songs and remixes. As of April 2025, the website features 1,155,375 songs and 355,929 artists in its catalog.

WhoSampled

Type of site	Music website, music samples database
Available in	English
Founded	London, England
Owner	Nadav Poraz[1]
URL	whosampled.com
Commercial	Yes[2]
Registration	Optional
Launched	1 October 2008; 16 years ago (2008-10-01)[3][4]
Current status	Active

History

Nadav Poraz 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.^[5] 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 6,600 songs.^[6][7] In 2015, the site added support for film and television clips.^[8] The following year, it partnered with Spotify^[9] and introduced 6D, a six degrees of separation-inspired game, that tracks relationships between artists, producers, and their tracks.^[10] In October 2017, WhoSampled partnered with KPM and Ableton and organised the third 'Samplethon' competition at Point Blank Studios in London.^[11][12][13]

See also

• Interpolation (popular music)
• Discogs
• Pandora Radio
• SecondHandSongs, a similar website that is focused on cover songs