Billboard is partnering with Twitter to
launch its first ever real-time music charts.
The Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts will
roll out in the next several weeks, and provide up-to-date rankings of songs
and artists' popularity based on social media conversations. Billboard will house the chart on its
website and on its Twitter account through its new Twitter Amplify partnership,
providing in-tweet chart data for social media users.
Trends will be ranked on a real-time basis
and over extended periods of time to track longevity of top songs and artists'
popularity.
Twitter's music boss Bob Moczydlowsky said
in a statement: "Twitter is where the music of the moment is discovered
and discussed - every day, new songs and new artists are breaking on the
platform.We're partnering with Billboard to
create a ground-breaking chart to track the conversation around music as it
happens. This means when artists share songs
and engage with their audience on Twitter, the buzz they create will now be
visible to fans, other musicians and in real time."
The move continues Billboard's efforts to
expand the ranking qualifications of its charts beyond radio airplay and sales.
Now, excuse me - I'm off to write 10.000 tweets about Debbie Gibson...
3 comments:
It would be funny if it wasn't so damned stupid.
Mind you, if I were on Twitter I reckon I could single-handedly revive the "chart" careers of Raffaella Carra, Dalida and Mitzi Gaynor - and that really would put a lot of modern shit to shame... Jx
I can just see it now - Miss Carra topping a chart in 2014 (one can dream...)
Just as long as she's not teaming up with bloody Avicii. Jx
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