Beyoncé Remix Joins SoundCloud

It’s final, the news is out. There is now a winner for Beyoncé’s End of Time Remix competition. Yes, so for all those who had set their sights on winning this big chance of becoming famous—better luck next time. So who’s the big winner? A big applause to Los Angeles based producer, Jimek. This Poland native was selected as the best remix over nearly 3,000 mixes received within the four weeks of the contest duration.

All entries were uploaded on to the leading social sound platform, SoundCloud. With over 12 million registered users on this media platform, there’s bound to me some heavy competition for this title. Who wouldn’t? Did you know that over 1.7 million fans visited the micro site in the first 10 days of the competition? By the end of the competition, all the stems were downloaded 351,000 times and 1.65 million fans listened to at least two mixes.

Now that’s one way to get your music out in the open. The 25 international countries that competed in this competition were: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Initial voting was from fans, DJs, and remixers in the SoundCloud community that helped narrow down the Top 50 entries. All eligible entries were voted on the basis of originality, creativity and musicality. The final winner was selected by an international panel of judges, British musician Isabella Summers of Florence & The Machine, Dutch music producer and DJ Afrojack, the duo DJ and producing team from Poland, WAWA, New York premier DJ Jus-Ske and Oscar winning producer/composer Giorgio Moroder, and not to forget, the star of the music track…Beyoncé herself!

The winner, Jimek, born Radzimir Debski, took home $4,000 USD and will have his remix appear on 4: The Remix, The EP, filled with fan-favorite remixes, including “Countdown” by Isa Machine and an extended version of “End of Time” by WAWA that will digitally available on April 24, 2012.

Jime, is the son of classical and film composer, Krzesimir Debski. He has a Masters degree in composition from Chopin Music Academy Warsaw and has studied film scoring and orchestration at UCLA, Los Angeles. He has worked in film and TV and is currently working on his solo debut indie album.

Because of contest, many people have seen the power of SoundCloud music. Expect to find more collaboration from different artists on this music platform. This could very well be only the beginning to the potential of what SoundCloud can provide the music industry.