Billboard
Debuts Real-Time Rankings of
Trending Music on Twitter
Billboard debuted the
Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts on Tuesday morning. The four interactive
Music charts will rank
Trending songs from popular and emerging artists based on how often they are mentioned in tweets in the United States.
Twitter first teased this partnership in March, with Bob Moczydlowsky, Twitter's
Music head, describing it as "the new industry standard for tracking and surfacing the conversation around
Music as it happens."
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The ranking system is a new
Music strategy for Twitter, which earlier this year shut down its
Twitter #Music app, a short-lived service that launched in April 2013 but failed to gain mainstream attention in a market full of rival
Music apps.
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