Trap Nation is an American YouTube music promotion channel based in Los Angeles that showcases trap and future bass.

Trap Nation serves as the flagship channel in The Nations network, which includes channels Chill Nation, Bass Nation, Rap Nation, Indie Nation, R&B Nation, and House Nation.

As of November 2018, The Nations are the largest music channel network on YouTube with over 38.1 million subscribers collectively.

The flagship channel, Trap Nation, is currently the 28th most-subscribed channel on YouTube.

History

Trap Nation was founded in September 2012 by Andre Willem Benz when he was 15 years old, [1]

Trap Nation's subscriber base grew when an upload of San Holo's remix of Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode" gained 23 million views in just seven months.

By the end of 2016, Trap Nation was included in the ten fastest-growing YouTube channels by Tubefilter, receiving an average of 70 million new plays a week.[2][3]

On January 23, 2017, a YouTuber named Vexxed released a video about Andre Willem of Trap Nation of spreading malware and not paying their artists and claiming he has close ties to Lizard Squad.[4] Trap Nation released a statement as a YouTube comment noting that "a lot of the information provided in the video is incorrect and not correctly presented."

Andre also claimed that somebody stole his account and used it to "scam people".[5] Vexxed then released a follow-up video with another YouTuber called Glink (who did a separate "investigation" and came to the same conclusion) saying that Trap Nation offered him a $10,000 bribe to his accusation video taken down.[6]

As of 2018, Trap Nation has more than 20 million subscribers and averages 560,000 new subscribers a month.[7] On Spotify, Trap Nation's playlists have over 1 million followers and an average of 200,000 monthly listeners.[8]

In September 2016, Lowly Palace was founded, Trap Nation's independent record label.[9] In less than a year, the channel has amassed almost 100,000 subscribers.[10]

In 2016, Trap Nation made its first live-event debut at Danbury, CT, where Botnet and Lukas performed.[11]

Trap Nation participated at the SXSW event in March 2017, featuring artists Illenium, San Holo, Whethan, and more.[12][13]

In June 2017, Trap Nation held the largest art car event at EDC, reaching a crowd of over 4,000 people.

The lineup featured acts such Alan Walker, Troyboi, Boombox Cartel, Autograf, and others played.[14][15]

In 2015, Trap Nation was included in YouTube's top 10 preferred Google / YouTube music partners.[16] Trap Nation is also in the top 1% of Google's preferred electronic-dance music channels.[17]

In June 2017, Trap Nation was the 44th-most-subscribed channel on YouTube[18] and had accumulated more than five billion total views.

Trap Nation was also ranked by Billboard as the #1 dance curator on YouTube alongside Monstercat, MrSuicideSheep, Proximity, and Majestic Casual.[19]