The best place to buy DJ tracks depends on what you play: Beatport for most club styles, Traxsource for house, Bandcamp to pay the artist directly and get lossless at no extra cost, and the iTunes Store, Amazon or Qobuz for pop and chart music. A track costs between $1.29 and $2.49 at the big stores in 2026. Lossless (WAV, AIFF or FLAC) adds $0.75 on Beatport, is a paid upgrade on Traxsource, and costs nothing extra on Bandcamp. Juno Download is gone. Here is what each store charges, what you get for it, and where your money is best spent.
The best places to buy DJ tracks in 2026
Beatport is the reference store for club music: techno, tech house, house, melodic house and techno, trance, drum and bass and most other dance styles. Beatsource, its open-format sister store, began merging into Beatport in March 2026, so open-format edits and remixes live there too. Beatport publishes its price list: $1.49 for catalog tracks, $1.69 for new releases and $2.49 for exclusives (€1.39, €1.59 and €2.39) as MP3. Lossless, which on Beatport means WAV or AIFF, adds a fee of $0.75 (€0.75) per track. You can buy the MP3 today and upgrade it to lossless later by paying the difference.
Traxsource is the house specialist: soulful, deep, jackin, afro and tech house, with many tracks and labels you will not find on Beatport. Tracks are listed at $1.49 to $1.99 in MP3, WAV or AIFF. Lossless is sold as an upgrade on top of the MP3 price, and you can upgrade a track you already own at any time.
Bandcamp lets the artist or label set the price. Bandcamp suggests $1.50 for a track and $9 for an album by default, but the artist decides, and many use "name your price" with a minimum. One price buys every format: MP3 320, MP3 V0, FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, AAC and Ogg Vorbis, picked from a dropdown when you download, and you can come back later and download again in another format. On Bandcamp Friday, Bandcamp waives its own revenue share, so nearly all of your money reaches the artist. The remaining 2026 dates are November 6 and December 4.
Juno Download closed on June 1, 2026 after twenty years. If you bought there, log in and save your purchases while the account pages still work.
Apple iTunes Store still sells songs as 256 kbps AAC files. Current singles cost $1.29 (€1.29). There is no lossless option, but the pop and charts catalog is huge.
Amazon Music runs a download store next to its streaming service. Purchases come as MP3 files you can copy to any DJ app. A current pop single was $1.29 when we checked.
Qobuz is the hi-res store. A new single is $1.49 in the US store and €1.79 in the German one; a hi-res album runs around $14.49 (€13.99). Lossless purchases come as FLAC, WAV, AIFF or ALAC, often in 24-bit, and lossy ones as MP3. You pick the format when you download.
Bleep and Boomkat are independent shops for electronic, experimental and left-field music, with strong editorial picks. Bleep sells a track at $1.35 as MP3 (320 kbps) and $1.99 as WAV or FLAC, with 24-bit WAV on selected titles. Boomkat prices each release on its own and sells MP3 plus lossless as FLAC, ALAC, WAV or AIFF depending on the release; buying lossless includes the MP3.
Labels' own stores. Many labels sell directly, through Bandcamp or their own shop. Check the label's page before you buy track by track: a full EP is often priced below the sum of its tracks, and some labels post their releases there before the big stores.
Official free downloads. Artists and labels give away plenty of edits and promos, legally. Our free downloads list collects the official ones per style, and this post explains how to find them.
| Store | Formats | Typical price per track | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beatport | MP3; WAV or AIFF for a fee | $1.49 to $2.49 (€1.39 to €2.39), lossless +$0.75 (+€0.75) | Techno, house, tech house, melodic, trance, drum and bass, open format |
| Traxsource | MP3, WAV, AIFF | $1.49 to $1.99, lossless as a paid upgrade | House in all its forms, afro house, soulful |
| Bandcamp | MP3 320, MP3 V0, FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, one price for all | Set by the artist (suggested default $1.50) | Paying the artist directly, EPs and albums, underground labels |
| Apple iTunes Store | 256 kbps AAC | $1.29 (€1.29) | Pop, hip hop, charts, commercial sets |
| Amazon Music store | MP3 | $1.29 for the single we checked | Pop and charts |
| Qobuz | FLAC, WAV, AIFF, ALAC (24-bit when available), MP3 | $1.49 (€1.79) | Hi-res lossless, full albums |
| Bleep | MP3, WAV or FLAC, 24-bit WAV on selected titles | $1.35 MP3, $1.99 WAV or FLAC | Independent electronic |
| Boomkat | MP3; FLAC, ALAC, WAV or AIFF by release | Set per release | Experimental and left-field electronic |
| Label stores | Varies by label | Often a bundle price per release | Full EPs, one label's catalog |
Prices checked October 2026.
Pay for lossless only when it matters
Lossless means the file keeps every bit of the master (WAV, AIFF, FLAC, ALAC). Lossy means some detail is thrown away to shrink the file (MP3, AAC). On a club system a good 320 kbps MP3 is very hard to tell from the WAV, so on Beatport and Traxsource the lossless fee is worth it only for tracks you will play on big rigs, edit or re-export, or keep for years. Where lossless is the standard product (Bandcamp, Qobuz) take the FLAC and keep it. More in the best audio format for DJs.
Buy what you will play ten times
The most expensive track is the one you never play. Before you pay, listen to the preview, think about where it sits in a set, and ask whether you will play it ten times. On Digger Digger every track shows how many recorded DJ sets it was found in, so a track found in 88 sets is a safer buy than one found in 2. Save candidates with the crate button, let them sit a week, then buy the ones you still want.
Label sales and bundles
When you want two tracks from a release, price the whole release: the release price is often lower than its tracks added up. Follow the labels you buy from most; sales are announced there first. Bandcamp Friday is the easy win: on November 6 and December 4 your money goes almost entirely to the artist, and many labels time discounts and new releases to it. On Beatport, streaming subscribers can re-download their purchases without limit, which matters if you buy a lot and change computers often.
If you need many open-format edits a month (clean versions, intros, acapellas), a record pool can cost less than buying track by track. DJ music subscriptions compares the pools and what they cost.
Keep receipts and back up your purchases
Juno Download disappeared overnight. Beatport lets you re-download a purchase five times, Bandcamp and Boomkat as often as you like, but no store promises to exist forever. So download right after you buy, keep a second copy on another drive or in cloud storage, and keep the email receipts: they are your proof of purchase. Buying a file does not give you the right to play it in public; that comes from a license, the rules differ by country, and your local collecting society can tell you what applies to you.
Why this beats ripping streams
Ripping a stream or a video gives you a file that was already compressed once and is now compressed again, often the radio edit instead of the extended mix, with wrong tags and no cue points worth keeping. It also pays the artist nothing, breaks the terms of the service, and in many countries breaks the law. A bought track costs about the price of a coffee, arrives as the right version in the right format, and still sits on your drive in ten years. Your sets sound better and the people who made the music get paid.
Every track on Digger Digger links to these stores, so you can hear the preview and buy where it is cheapest. Start with your style.