MySpace Music Charts Debuts in Beta

It’s not quite the Billboard Hot 100, but artists with a presence on MySpace can now aspire to work their way up the MySpace Music Charts, which debuted in beta form Wednesday.

The new section includes charts by artist, song, album and video across all genres, as well as unique charts for all territories. MySpace users can also friend artists within the charts, and the Movers section highlights the quickest risers on the charts. In addition, songs, albums and videos on the charts are available via streaming free-of-charge for users in all territories.

MySpace Music president Courtney Holt said:

Every artist aspires to be No. 1. The music platform on MySpace was built on the belief that if you provide artists with the right tools to properly market themselves, then the opportunities are endless—and we understood from the very beginning that data would be one of the most important tools we could offer.

Over these past few months, we’ve gone under the hood to take a closer look at the intelligence underlining the MySpace Music platform, and we’ve been focused on making it cleaner, more meaningful and more accessible to artists.

With last month’s beta launch of our new Artist Dashboard, we now provide a comprehensive analytics tool to help give artists and labels useful intelligence about what’s resonating with fans and how their content is being socialized throughout MySpace.

Continuing that momentum, today marks the beta launch of MySpace Music Charts—a new global product that creates multiple front doors into the discovery of popular music content across all genres. Whether you’re a hip-hop act, an unsigned progressive rock band or the next electronica sensation in Germany—there’s a chart for that.

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