Beatstar has 30 million downloads.
Beatstar has 38 million downloads.
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Space Ape Games’ Beatstar hits 38M installs and $73M in revenue

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Space Ape Games said its Beatstar mobile rhythm game has been downloaded 38 million times in its first year. It has also generated $73 million in revenue and 2.5 billion song plays.

London-based Space Ape said that it has shared $16 million of the revenue with music labels and publishers.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.