Editorial Policy

Independence

BeatsVine is owned and operated by Raging Orangutan Holdings, a sole-trader entity registered on the Isle of Man. We have no ownership ties, equity arrangements, or commercial agreements with any music distributor, record label, streaming platform, or media company. No external investors, no parent media group, no editorial direction from upstream stakeholders.

Where a streaming platform appears on a track page, the order is determined by the visitor's preference (set per-account or defaulted by region), not by paid placement. We have no mechanism for a platform to pay for priority placement; the codebase has no such concept.

Chart positions

Chart positions on BeatsVine's discovery walls are factual data points sourced verbatim from upstream charts: Last.fm scrobbles, Deezer editorial, Apple Music feeds, MusicBrainz, the MIT-licensed utdata/rwd-billboard-data Billboard archive, and Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. We don't insert, remove, or reorder entries based on commercial relationships. We don't hide tracks for content reasons. We don't favour artists who pay us (we have no mechanism for that). Where the upstream source publishes a chart in a particular order, the wall reflects that order exactly. Provenance is on the wall page above the title.

Editorial walls + curator transparency

Some discovery walls are editorial — picked by a curator rather than auto-populated from a chart. Where this is the case, the wall page credits the curator (or the editorial team behind a public playlist URL we're mirroring). We don't accept payment for editorial placement on BeatsVine-curated walls. If we ever do — which is not in the plan — every paid placement will be explicitly labelled at the wall + entry level, not buried in fine print.

Affiliate disclosure

A small number of pages may carry affiliate links to physical merchandise (vinyl, CDs, tour merch, ticketing). These earn BeatsVine a small commission from the seller at no extra cost to the visitor. Every affiliate link is marked at the page level — see the Disclosurespage for the full list of affiliate networks we're part of and how the relationship works.

Streaming platform links — Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, Deezer, Bandcamp, etc. — are not affiliate-coded. They open the streaming platform with no tracking handshake.

Correction process

If a BeatsVine page contains an error — wrong title, wrong artist, wrong release date, broken streaming link, misattributed cover art, incorrect chart position — the fastest fix is the report formlinked from every page footer. We'll review every reported issue, fix verifiable errors, and surface the correction in the page's edit log where appropriate. Response time: usually within 48 hours, sometimes longer for complex catalogue corrections.

For takedown requests (DMCA / NTD / right-of-publicity), the process is documented at /legal/contact and responses are reviewed by the founder, not outsourced.

What we don't do

• We don't sell advertising. There are no banner ads, no programmatic ad networks, no third-party tracking pixels for ad attribution.
• We don't broker user data. Email addresses, IP ranges, listening behaviour, and account metadata are never sold, shared, or traded with third parties. See Privacy.
• We don't buy or trade backlinks. We don't participate in PBNs. The platform's SEO is built on real content, working software, and attribution to the upstream sources we use.
• We don't auto-generate filler content for SEO. Pages on BeatsVine are either created by humans (artists, fans, venues, curators), populated from verifiable upstream charts, or imported from licensed datasets with full provenance.
• We don't use dark UX patterns: no fake-scarcity timers, no pre-checked subscription boxes, no confirmshame copy, no auto-renewal traps. Refunds: 14 days, no qualifiers.

AI & automation disclosure

BeatsVine uses automated systems for several specific tasks: streaming-link resolution (waterfall resolver across MusicBrainz / Songlink / per-platform search), chart data ingestion (cron jobs pulling from public APIs), cover-art probing (background checks for broken images), and discovery-tag derivation (rules-based chamber + facet inference from wall metadata). Where AI models are used in pipelines (e.g. content-quality linting, draft suggestion), the output is reviewed before publication. We don't generate user-visible prose with LLMs without human review.

Read more

• About BeatsVine — ownership, who runs this.
• How we test + curate — methodology, sourcing, freshness.
• Attribution — third-party data licences + acknowledgments.
• Disclosures — affiliate networks + commercial relationships.
• Privacy— what we collect, what we don't.