YouTube Views Now Factored into Billboard Music Charts

Google announced today that they have struck a deal with Billboard and Nielsen to play a role in the calculation of their weekly music charts. Continue reading

Google announced today that they have struck a deal with Billboard and Nielsen to play a role in the calculation of their weekly music charts. Continue reading

Pandora Radio has created this fun little infographic that give U.S. holiday music listening stats and trends. Continue reading
In case you wanted to spruce up your blog posts with a song, album or artist, Wordpress announced recently that you can now embed Spotify and Rdio music. Continue reading
Augmented Reality app-maker Blippar is at it again. This time, they have added augmented reality to the CD casing for ‘Now Thats What I Call Music! 80′ -the latest offering from the pop music compilation series. Continue reading
Here is an interesting read from Econsultancy about how digital music sales has surpassed physical music sales in 2011. Nielsen and Billboard teamed up for the report that showed 50.3% of all music sales to be digital. Continue reading
Last month, Billboard launched a new way to measure music popularity- a chart based on social media activity. The Social 50‘s rankings reflect social media statistics like new weekly artist page likes and views, new followers, song streaming, etc. on … Continue reading