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Beats Per Minute (website)

American online publication

Field	Value
name	Beats Per Minute
logo	Beats Per Minute Logo.png
logo_size	190px
screenshot	Onethirtybpm screencap.png
screenshot_size	240px
caption	One Thirty BPMs main page in January 2011.
url
type	Music webzine
registration	No
author	Evan Kaloudis
launch_date	October 5, 2008
current_status	Active

Beats Per Minute (formerly One Thirty BPM) is a New York City– and Los Angeles–based online publication providing reviews, news, media, interviews and feature articles about the music world. Beats Per Minute covers a variety of genres and specializes in rock, hip hop, and electronic music.

History

Beats Per Minute was founded in late 2008 as a five-man operation and named as a reference to the Of Montreal song "Suffer for Fashion". As of 2011, Beats Per Minute had expanded to a staff of about 50 contributors based in the U.S., U.K., New Zealand, Germany, Australia, and Sweden.

The site changed its name from One Thirty BPM to Beats Per Minute in January 2012.

Beats Per Minute's was cited by Hanif Abdurraqib in his Best of 2025 albums feature.

Ratings

It issues music ratings on a 0–100% point scale. As of May 7, 2022, Beats Per Minute music scores were described by Metacritic as typically (59% of the time) higher than most other critic scores. Metacritic reported that out of 1406 music scores given by the website, the site gave positive reviews to 1276 of them and gave negative reviews to only 18 of them (1% of the total number of scores given).

References

Hirschhorn, Jason. (July 26, 2013). "News and Notes from Mike McCarthy's Friday Presser". Acme Packing Company.
"Behind the Blog – One Thirty BPM". The Recommender.
"Rating System". Beats Per Minute.
Heaphy, Faith. (September 21, 2011). "From Busboy to Breakout Music Blogger". [[Fordham Observer]].
(January 8, 2012). "RIP One Thirty BPM...".
Abdurraqib, Hanif. (2025-12-30). "BPM's 'New Thing' track-by-track included in "115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 (This Time, With A Short Essay About Brian Wilson.)"".
"Beats Per Minute Profile". Metacritic.

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