Official UK singles chart to include streaming services

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27924176

by nicky0 • 12 years ago

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Kiro• 12 years ago

How does Spotify deal with fraud? What prevents me from just putting my own song on repeat and cash in/manipulate the charts?

andyhmltn2• 12 years ago

The same system I would think is stopping you from clicking your own adsense sites

sleepyhead• 12 years ago

So Google stops Spotify fraud?

johneth• 12 years ago

Towards the bottom of the article: "Each track will have to be played for 30 seconds before it counts as one stream. To avoid fans "gaming" the system, only 10 plays will be counted per user, per day."

mathnode• 12 years ago

We should probably just work on a procedural media algorithm and call it "pop cache"; but it's not really a cache it just generates the same garbage over and over again with slight iterations and adapts to current trends in news, politocs, social economics etc. This would save a ton of I/O. Once again, computer science is the ring master for the Bread and Circus.

Just automating Max Martin really.

iamben2• 12 years ago

"Just automating Max Martin really."

Can I invest?! The returns on that one would be phenomenal... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin

iamben2• 12 years ago

I'm looking forward to the first "How I gamed the UK charts with Mechanical Turk" blog post.

orcdork• 12 years ago

How we growth hacked our band and pivoted into the top spot.

tobias__• 12 years ago

This might interest you - http://www.itnews.com.au/News/362462,hacker-uses-bots-to-top...

smackfu• 12 years ago

A while back, the US ones added Youtube video plays to the Hot 100, and the Harlem Shake immediately went to the top of the charts: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1549388/baauers-harle...

SixSigma• 12 years ago

"Because it's really important for the kids to know who makes the most money each week."

Rik - The People's Poet

Official UK singles chart to include streaming services

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