BBC Sound Index : Top 100 Songs and Artists

The BBC Sound Index is a massive online index of the hottest music tracks artists on the internet. Want to find what are currently the most popular songs and artists on the web ? The Sound Index is the right place. Check out top 100 songs and top 100 artists based on the on the song and artist popularity on some of the biggest music destinations on the web.

Top 100 Songs

Once every six hours the Sound Index scans major music and social networking sites including MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, and YouTube – to build top 100 (actually top 1000) music chart. The more blog postings, views, plays, downloads, comments etc. an artist or track has, the higher it appears on the Sound Index. Therefore, what you get on the Sound Index is a top 100 music chart determined entirely by web users.

Other features include:

(1) the option to watch listed music videos on Youtube

(2) and search feature that lets you check whether the artist or track is on the chart.

Top 100 Music Artists

Check out Top 100 Songs and Artists @ www.bbc.co.uk/soundindex/

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4 Comments Add Comment
2008-05-28 17:16:18
bryan

ugh. this just makes you realize how much crappy music people listen to.

2008-05-29 11:44:41
Stilgar91

true

2008-05-29 11:45:56
Stilgar91

especially the itunes ones are crap… though (between the youtube ones) there are a few pearls

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2008-05-31 21:28:52

well, it’s music… everyone has a different taste.

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