How many DAWs are getting 30,000 downloads a month? Not many, right?
FL Studio is hitting that figure every single day, according to its maker Image-Line. Even CEO Constantin Koehncke admits that number is “pretty staggering” and “definitely insane”.
But it’s not downloads alone that put it among the world’s most popular DAWs. Myriad music fans with even a passing interest in music production have heard about it. That includes the millions of viewers who watch FL Studio users “speedrun” beatmaking on TikTok, plus fans of Grammy-winning producers like Mustard, Kaytranada, Hit-Boy, and the late Avicii, who’ve all expressed their reliance on the software. Known as FruityLoops before 2003, the DAW has long been the gateway to music-making for millions of…