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# Bop.fm Adds Beats To Versatile, Shareable Agnostic Music Service Platform
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/bopfm-adds-beats-to-versitile-agnostic-music-service-platform/
- Published: 2014-03-03T14:24:08.000Z
- Updated: 2014-03-03T14:24:08.000Z
- Description: (UPDATED) Want to listen to Dr. Dre's landmark album The Chronic on Beats Music? You can't, despite Dre being a major partner in the new music streamer. A glaring catalog omission. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/03/bopfm-adds-beats-to-versitile-agnostic-music-service-platfor
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Music Tech, Streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:38

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(UPDATED) Want to listen to Dr. Dre's landmark album The Chronic on Beats Music? You can't, despite Dre being a major partner in the new music streamer. A glaring catalog omission like this is just one of the many annoying bi-products of an antiquated and decentralized licensing system. Today [Bop.fm](http://bop.fm/?ref=hypebot.com) took a major step towards circumventing it with the addition of Beats Music, to its agnostic music platform which already includes Spotify, Deezer, Rdio, YouTube and SoundCloud.

A graduate of startup incubator Y Combinator, [Bop.fm](http://bop.fm/?ref=hypebot.com) appears to be the first to connect with the Beats

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API. "We are a marketing channel through which they can acquire new users," Bop.fm co-founder Shehzad Daredia told Hypebot.

[Bop.fm offers](https://www.hypebot.com/bopfm-connects-music-services-to-make-music-more-shareable/) tracks and playlists that source songs from these multiple services. making it easier to play and share music across licensing and geographic boundaries. The platform also has a player for web publishers that's currently in use on Rap Genius.

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