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November 19, 2009

MySpace Adds Music Charts...

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CNet:

In the wake of acquiring smaller digital music services iLike—and now, it looks like, Imeem—MySpace continues to attempt to align itself as the foremost player in the digital music industry. On Wednesday, the News Corp. division rolled out a music charts page to track the most popular music getting listened to on the social site.

The design, regrettably, isn’t very user-friendly and requires quite a bit of scrolling. And in a world of finely tuned “music discovery” and personalized recommendations, charts can seem a little bit static. A blog post from MySpace Music head Courtney Holt assures that it’s “just the beginning of a product and platform evolution that reinforces the key messaging, vision and direction of the new MySpace Music.”

Prefix:

The new system, MySpace Music Charts, uses the same data to rank artists in the same categories, as well as overall, and also will include information on the most popular songs, albums and videos across MySpace. In addition, there is a “Movers” category that charts the biggest jumps in popularity across MySpace. The chart also allows you to filter by region or genre, though how Seether and Shinedown qualify as “Indie” is a mystery.



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