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10-09-03, 04:20 PM | #1 | ||
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Using p2p networks as hit detectors
Wired runs an interesting story on how a company named BigChampagne tracks and records what is being traded on public p2p networks and makes money by selling the distilled information to commercial radio and - yes! - to some labels as well. It turns out that the p2p download activity combined to geographical information makes a fairly good detector for music's hit potential - something worth paying for.
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10-09-03, 04:56 PM | #2 |
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Guess my tastes are in the bottom ten
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10-09-03, 10:40 PM | #3 |
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David Lawrence who hates peer to peer in a seriously major way went after BigChampagne recently, for supposedly withholding the scientific data behind their tracking methodology. He’s posted about both P2P & BC in a fashion that suggests he feels they’re actually evil, but he has his own tracking systems and some have suggested his animosity is sour grapes. Whatever its cause it’s pretty venomous. And wow does he hate peer-to-peer. It verges on religious obsession.
I’ve been using BigChampagne’s charts in the Week in Review for ages and I think they’re more or less accurate as far as that goes - but with the recognition that there’s a lot of hype, smoke and mirrors permeating every aspect of the business of music, and that includes all the charts that go with it.. - js. |
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