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WhoSampled
Website cataloging sampling in music From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
In November 2025, it was acquired by Sweden-based media firm and streaming service provider Spotify.[5]
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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 2025, 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]
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See also
- Interpolation (popular music)
- Discogs
- Pandora Radio
- SecondHandSongs, a similar website that is focused on cover songs
References
External links
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