We Are Hunted Digs Up The Web’s Most Popular Tracks
Looking for some new tunes? We Are Hunted is a music aggregator that pays attention to what people are actually listening to, not what the radio plays.
We Are Hunted scours the internet, peeking into the playlists of Last.fm users, Twitter rolls, torrent search engines, music blogs, and dozens of other sources to get a feel for what people are actually listening to at any given moment. Every day a list of the top 100 songs is published; you can also dig down into the last week, month, and year. A quick spin through the daily and weekly archives of We Are Hunted yields a pile of new and talented artists, and it’s an excellent departure from life on the commercialised Top 40 charts. If you’ve got a favourite way to find new music online (MixTape.me, perhaps) or just want to share a song you found via We Are Hunted, sound off in the comments below.
We Are Hunted [via TechCrunch]
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Methinks those won't always be mutually exclusively. Let's face it, the industry doesn't make money because no one listens to the music it promotes.
I'm all for new music and indie music, and understand that some like formulaic stuff which is common in commercial music, but it remains that good music is good music no matter its origins.
jupiterthunder
This is like Dogpile's audio section resurrected for today's hip youth!
I'm a bit apprehensive b/c you can download these tracks, at least some of them, using a simple Right click + Save. Decent music and good concept, otherwise.
Jay Ramachandran
This site doesn't actually work! It is fully disproven at this site with a comment from one of the founders of the site
[musformation.com]
Jesse Cannon
Apparently everyone is listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Techno.
turniptable
Without a way to filter based on genre, that means I get to listen to a lot of music I hate before finding one I might like.
Also why does the interface show the clips fading down the page but the navigation move left/right? (That kind'a thing drives me crazy.)
fiji.siv
I, too, noticed the abundance of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I like them, but I can't imagine they're that popular. Also agree that I need some sort of genre filter so I can avoid all the techno.
Also, where do the images come from? Does the site google image search the artist/track and take the first result or something? That's what it looks like.
broken. radio may not play the songs people want to hear, but people download the music they want to hear. there is no way to have such a disconnect between popular music (as evidences by music sales) and the songs this site lists.
haven't actually looked at this site, but the description reminds me of [hypem.com] which aggregates posted mp3s from blogs. Which has the same quirks as this (aka: there are a lot of blogs talking about the same hyped up stuff, like the yeah yeah yeahs)
robobot
Yeah, but does it scrobble??? Which is the main reason why I use such services as blip.fm and hypem.com.
Kr Zap
Yeah, that's what I want. I have no taste in music so I'll be like the brainless masses who like this crap so I can be one of the herd.
rockhopper