Rihanna Tops Billboard's Newly Launched Social Top 50 Chart
Billboard welcomes a new chart to its ever-growing menu with the launch of the Social 50, Presented by ZYNC from American Express®, which ranks the most active artists on the world's leading social networking sites. Rihanna tops the Social 50 in its debut week, followed by Justin Bieber, Eminem, Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj, respectively, to round out the top five.
Serving as a complement to Billboard's existing weekly rankings, the Social 50 chart will tally artists' popularity using a formula blending their weekly additions of friends/fans/followers, along with weekly artist page views and weekly song plays on MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and iLike. Data from these sites is gathered and provided to Billboard by social music tracking service Next Big Sound.
The chart's recipe also includes a unique metric that measures the ratio of page views-to-fans/friends on YouTube and MySpace, both of which allow such interactions.
The Social 50 emphasizes friends/fans behavior above other activities, followed by artist page views and song plays. The final ranking also includes a unique metric measuring the ratio of page views to fans.
A ranking of the most active artists on the world's leading social networking sites. Artists' popularity is determined by a formula blending their weekly additions of friends/fans/followers along with artists' page views and weekly song plays
I think this chart is interesting, Facebook, Twitter, etc... are big part of our culture right now.
At least she's charting somwehere
