Billboard and Twitter team up for real time music charts
As the digital revolution reaches its pinnacle, fans, artists and the industry alike struggle to rank music in a scene based almost entirely on social clout. To combat the uncertainty, Billboard and Twitter have partnered up to unveil the first ever Real-Time charts. The first two charts to be debuted are the Billboard Trending 140 and the Emerging Artists rankings, all dictated by fan interactions on Twitter. The Trending 140 will display the most shared tracks in the U.S. over the past 24 hours, as well as a weekly summary presented as the Billboard Twitter Top Tracks. Song shares are tracked through a variety of ways including links to Spotify, Vevo, and iTunes, hashtags like #nowplaying and #np, as well as various terms associated with the tracks playing such as "music," "song," "track," and "listen."