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Official UK singles chart to include streaming services
- Kiro 12y agoHow does Spotify deal with fraud? What prevents me from just putting my own song on repeat and cash in/manipulate the charts?
- andyhmltn 12y agoThe same system I would think is stopping you from clicking your own adsense sites
- sleepyhead 12y agoSo Google stops Spotify fraud?
- andyhmltn 12y agoNo. Of course not. But it was an example of how that kind of stuff can be stopped. They are both PP* on user published content.
- johneth 12y agoTowards 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 12y agoWe 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.
- iamben 12y ago"Just automating Max Martin really." Can I invest?! The returns on that one would be phenomenal... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin
- iamben 12y agoI'm looking forward to the first "How I gamed the UK charts with Mechanical Turk" blog post.
- smackfu 12y agoA 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-harlem-shake-debuts-atop-revamped-hot-100 http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1549388/baauers-harle...
- SixSigma 12y ago"Because it's really important for the kids to know who makes the most money each week." Rik - The People's Poet