How Samples Charts Will Keep You Up On Beatmaking Trends

Music changes fast. To keep up with changing trends you need to stay up on what’s hot right now.

But knowing where to look in a library of over a million samples isn’t easy.

Here’s how LANDR’s new Samples Charts will help you find all the trending samples no matter what kind of music you’re producing.

What are Samples Charts?

Charts give you access to the hottest sounds across the best genres and instruments.

To keep up with changing trends you need to stay up on what’s hot right now.

There’s a chart for every major genre Including:

• Trap Top 50
• Tech House Top 50 
• Synthwave Top 50
• Reggaeton Top 50
• Soul Top 50
• Pop Top 50
• House & Techno Top 50
• Deep House Top 50
• Hip-hop Top 50
• Future Bass Top 50
• Dancehall Top 50
• Cinematic Top 50

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Samples Charts also gives you the top samples by instrument Including:

• Vocals Top 50
• Bass Top 50
• Drums Top 50
• Synths Top 50
• Keys Top 50
• Guitars Top 50
• Strings Top 50
• Plucks Top 50
• Percussion Top 50
• Layers Top 50
• Foley Top 50
• Brass Top 50

See what’s moving up and down in the charts

To stay on-trend and know what’s coming up Samples Charts keeps you up-to-date with the most popular samples.

If it’s hot in music, you’ll find it on charts. Need the best Keys? There’s a chart for that. Looking for the best Synth sounds? There’s a chart for that too…

Start on Charts to find the best sounds fast.

Start your Selector session with charts

Opening Selector sessions from a Samples chart is the perfect way to find the hidden heat that no one has discovered yet.

Wanna find samples related to what’s popular? Start your session from a sound on charts and use Selector, the AI sample recommendation tool, to find similar sounds.

Once you find a top sample that inspires you, just hit the Selector button and get all the similar sounds you need to build an entire track from one source.

Opening Selector sessions from a Samples chart is the perfect way to find the hidden heat that no one has discovered yet.

Stay up to date with what’s happening in all genres

It’s always helpful to watch what’s happening in other genres.

For example: future bass, hip-hop and trap are all closely related.

Make something that crosses over between each genre by checking the charts for each one and grabbing a few sounds.

Make something that crosses over between each genre by checking the charts for each one and grabbing a few sounds.

You can always find inspiration by looking at what producers in other genres are using in their tracks.

Filter results from each chart

Samples Charts makes it easy to sort samples for your specific needs.

Wanna know the best drum samples in Trap? Filter the chart for drums to find out.

Or maybe you want all the best EDM samples in a specific BPM range. You can filter for that too.

You can also sort for loops and one-shots based on the type of sample you need for your track.

No matter what you’re looking for, start with charts to find the best sounds fast.

Check back and do it all over again

Samples Charts is always updating, so there’s plenty of fresh inspiration when you need it.

Don’t stop with one track!

Samples Charts is always updating, so there’s plenty of fresh inspiration when you need it.

So stay up to date with what’s popular in the music production and start your next track with Charts.

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Alex Lavoie works as a staff writer at LANDR by day and writes indie post-punk tunes in his band UTILS while moonlighting as drummer for folk-rock outfit The Painters.

@Alex Lavoie