Traditional music charts are based on shipped albums, or units sold. While this may have been an accurate method to judge music popularity in the simpler times of top-down, centralized music distribution, today’s media-consumption behavior patterns do not always adhere to such direct paths. Though sales may be the ultimate indicator of the public’s love for a song, online activity – streaming, discussing and sharing can illustrate the different ways music now becomes popular.
We Are Hunted is an online music chart that uses a wide variety of sources to determine the current state of society’s chaotic music listening habits. By [...]