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Billboard’s Twitter music charts go live

By | Published on Wednesday 28 May 2014

Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts

Billboard and Twitter yesterday officially launched the previously reported Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts, which logs the ups and downs of popular songs on the social network over the previous hour, 24 hours, and seven days.

The complicated system takes into account US-based tweets featuring combinations of artist names, songs titles, Twitter handles, hashtags, words like “listen” and streaming links to work out who’s hot and who’s cooling down like a hot egg in a bucket of ice cream. Should you really want to know more about the system the charts are employing, there is a detailed FAQ right here.

One of the first acts to join the exhausting merry-go-round of tweet lists was Austin Mahone, who performed at a launch event for the new charts and told Billboard: “I am thrilled to be one of the first artists to see my songs move on the Billboard Twitter Charts. For me, it’s always about my fans, and I love seeing what all my Mahomies are saying about the new EP – it’s exciting that there’s finally a platform that tracks what the fans are saying about music in real-time”.

Nope, Mahomies still doesn’t really work, does it? I vote he renames his fans something else. How about the Austin-tatiouslies? Yes, that’s much better.

Anyway, I digress. As well as all the big popular popstars, there will also be charts for emerging artists having their music shared on Twitter – the little guys with fewer than 50,000 followers. Have a look at the ‘Trending 140’ chart here, and the Emerging Artists chart here.



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