Otherwise, the Hype Machine’s chart is just going to keep on getting RickRolled.
If there was a way to figure out who are the music experts or influencers on Twitter and give their Tweets more weight, that would create a more interesting list. Ranking music based on roughly on how many Twitter followers someone has is just as lame as any of the other methods the Hype Machinists are trying to replace. But the bigger problem with ranking songs based on someone’s popularity on Twitter is that just because someone has a lot of followers doesn’t man they have good taste in music (TechCrunch and myself excluded, of course). To be fair, it just launched, and as more people start voting, the system should self-correct. No single person should be able to affect the rankings so easily. Every time I Tweet out a song link, it counts for 266 points, noyt enough to get a song to the top spot with one Tweet, but enough to move “Superteen” by The Care Bears On Fire from the No. Okay, so maybe it wasn’t fair to use the TechCrunch account, but what else am I gonna do on a Saturday morning plane ride back to New York (gotta love Virgin America’s WiFi in the sky).Įven before I Tweeted the link with the TechCrunch account, I Tweeted it first through my personal account, which only has 7,224 followers, and was able to get the song to debut on the list at No. A single Tweet was enough to put the song at the top of the chart, above Michael Jackson’s and Telepopmusik’s “Remember The Time” (1,972 points). The TechCrunch account has 916,735 followers, which gives each Hype Machine Tweet 2,997 points. I just RickRolled the chart by Tweeting a link to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” from the TechCrunch Twitter account. It seems straight-forward enough, but it is way too easy for people with a large number of Twitter followers to game. The songs with the most points, move up the chart. They came up with a formula which gives people with more followers on Twitter more points for every song they Tweet.
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It encourages people to Tweet out links to their favorite songs on the Hype Machine, where you can listen to the full audio stream. “The website helps smaller independent artists like myself make a splash in the popular music world.The folks at the Hype Machine, the popular music tracking site, think that all of the Twitter music charts out there are “lame,” so they decided to make their own Twitter Music Chart. “ can possibly get helped substantially by The Hype Machine whether they agree or not,” E-603 wrote in an e-mail. Mashup artist E-603 sees it differently though. The folks at the Hype Machine, the popular music tracking site, think that all of the Twitter music charts out there are lame, so they decided to make their own Twitter Music Chart. “It‘s not cool to post a track in super quality months or weeks before the official release… If it continues like this I’m not sure how long my label, BNR, can survive.” “ blogs and mp3s are cool,” Boys Noize wrote in an e-mail interview with The Miami Hurricane.
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While electronica artist Boys Noize, who also operates his own label, doesn’t think it’s The Hype Machine’s fault for pointing music fans to blogs where they can download songs for free, he has had to request to have his songs taken down on numerous occasions. However, users do have the option to purchase music from Amazon or iTunes through, which supports both The Hype Machine and the artist. Local concert schedules are also listed for each artist.Ĭritics contend that the site is just used to download music without having to pay for it. You can search for musicians ranging from Bob Dylan and Daft Punk to Jay-Z. The diversity of music on the website is remarkable. There is also a search feature, which enables you to look for songs from your favorite artist. Another section has the most popular songs on the site from the last three days, which gives everyone the opportunity to be exposed to new artists. The site’s homepage lists the latest songs that have been uploaded. Each song posted has a link to the original blog, where you can often download the song for free. Started in 2005 by New Yorker Anthony Volodkin during his sophomore year of college, The Hype Machine is a website () that aggregates select music blogs and posts songs from the blogs onto its own Web site. “Lately I’ve been hunting the Internet for music, and this will make my life that much more easier,” DeOliveira said. When sophomore Danny DeOliveira recently heard about The Hype Machine, he was in awe. Have trouble finding new music? Ever wonder when your favorite band is coming to town? If the answer is yes to either question, you should check out The Hype Machine.
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