Beats Per Minute (website)

Beats Per Minute 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 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.