| URL | whosampled.com |
|---|---|
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Music |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | Nadav Poraz[1] |
| Launched | 2008[1] |
| Current status | Active |
WhoSampled is a website and database of information about sample-based music founded in London, United Kingdom.
WhoSampled is an online sample-based music databases of music that compares original songs with covered songs or songs that "borrowed" samples, it serves as a historical line of where songs have come from and where they’re going.[2]
Registered users can submit information about a sample, remix or cover and subject, waiting for moderator's approval that will let the entry to be published on the site.
The visitor of the site gets a comprehensive list of who that artist has sampled and how, and how that artist him/herself has been sampled. The comparison of original song and the song that sampled, covered or remixed it, is done side by side with embedded tracks or videos. All audio and video clips shown on the site are embedded links to content hosted by third party services, such as YouTube or DailyMotion. [3]
WhoSampled was named one of PC Magazine's Top 100 Web Sites of 2010.[4]
The process and idea of the site of being a tool for research and music discovery, is similar to another project called Music Genome Project, both wanting to "explore the DNA of music." [5]