Affiliate disclosure

CrateRadar earns affiliate commission on click-throughs to specific stores — listed below with their current status. When commission is taken, the price you pay is unaffected; it comes out of the store’s margin, not your pocket. On stores where we’re not in an affiliate program, we earn nothing on the click-through.

We disclose per-store rather than the usual blanket "we may earn commission" because most of our outbound clicks today don’t earn anything, and that should be visible. The table below is the source of truth and updates whenever a relationship changes.

Per-store status

• Beatport

  not enrolled

  We don't currently earn commission on Beatport click-throughs.

• Bandcamp

  not enrolled

  We don't currently earn commission on Bandcamp click-throughs.

• Hardtunes

  not enrolled

  Hardtunes doesn't operate an affiliate program. We don't earn anything on Hardtunes clicks.

• Black Reaper Records

  not enrolled

  Direct relationship with the label; no formal affiliate program.

How it works in practice

Outbound store links on CrateRadar route through /go/[listingId] — a redirect endpoint that logs the click and adds the affiliate parameters where applicable, then 302s you to the store. Links carry rel="sponsored nofollow" . Cookies that result from the click belong to the destination store, not us.

Editorial independence

Affiliate status doesn’t influence ranking. Search results sort by query relevance + recency; per-store offers on a track page sort by price ascending. A store we earn nothing on can — and frequently does — show up as the cheapest option and win the “best price” treatment.