Trap Nation

Andre Willem Benz (born: ) is a music promoter and YouTuber who runs Trap Nation, originally AllTrapNation. The channel, which is the largest trap music channel in the world, is known for uploading "trap" songs, whether remixes or basic work made by trap artists. It is currently YouTube's 53rd most-subscribed and 101st most viewed channel of all time.
==Channel==
The Trap Nation channel was made in September 2012 in the United States by Andre Benz, who was 15 at the time. He himself, who is a fan of Trap Music, uploads songs of Trap Music that he likes and gets written permission from the artist or the company affiliated with them for every upload so he does not get copyright claimed.
Trap Nation is similar to "NoCopyrightSounds", a music channel with over 26.7 million subscribers and 8.1 billion views. But "NCS" releases all types of Electronic Dance Music. However, Trap Nation only promotes trap music. Instead of uploading the music video of the artist or artists' songs, there is a circle in the middle and the waves to keep the beat just like NCS. He does this to avoid copyright infringement because often, the artist or company won't tolerate it if he or anyone did so. He gets his video backgrounds from Unsplash and Adobe Stock. All the background or either paid, licensed, or royalty-free.
Many save his videos and use it for their own videos but there are not always downloadable links for them. As well, many of their videos get copyright claimed because they didn't ask the artist or company affiliated with the song. Though he now gets permission for every upload, either through submissions or by him directly asking to promote a song on the channel.
==Growth==
His channel reached 100 thousand subscribers in 2014, 1 million in 2015, and 10 million in 2016.
Due to this and getting tens of millions of video views a month, his channel is among the fastest growing of all time due to his increasing frequency of uploading mostly new and popular Trap Songs.
== Hacking/Termination ==
On February 17, 2022, Trap Nation was terminated after it and Rap Nation were hacked by an exploit believed to be a scam for a streaming service. 
On February 19 2022, Trap Nation got their channel restored. Around February 23 2022, Rap Nation got restored too. 
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
*1 million subscribers: February 25, 2015.
*2 million subscribers: July 3, 2015.
*3 million subscribers: October 8, 2015.
*4 million subscribers: December 25, 2015.
*5 million subscribers: February 29, 2016.
*6 million subscribers: April 28, 2016.
*7 million subscribers: June 21, 2016.
*8 million subscribers: August 13, 2016.
*9 million subscribers: September 26, 2016.
*10 million subscribers: November 9, 2016.
*11 million subscribers: December 23, 2016.
*12 million subscribers: February 9, 2017.
*13 million subscribers: March 31, 2017.
*14 million subscribers: May 30, 2017.
*15 million subscribers: August 4, 2017.
*16 million subscribers: October 17, 2017.
*17 million subscribers: December 24, 2017.
*18 million subscribers: February 10, 2018.
*19 million subscribers: April 2, 2018.
*20 million subscribers: May 23, 2018.
*21 million subscribers: July 8, 2018.
*22 million subscribers: August 24, 2018.
*23 million subscribers: October 13, 2018.
*24 million subscribers: December 9, 2018.
*25 million subscribers: February 8, 2019.
*26 million subscribers: April 14, 2019.
*27 million subscribers: July 27, 2019.
*28 million subscribers: January 20, 2020.
*29 million subscribers: July 28, 2020
*30 million subscribers: April 4, 2021
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