"But while the Ultimate Chart and Billboard are currently dominated by Rihanna and the Black Eyed Peas, MTV's chart offers a refreshing list of artists: Waka Flocka Flame, Girls, Yelawolf."
Well, 2 outta 3.
Also what’s up with no love for Number Eight lady Jazmine Sullivan? Or NUMBER ONE DUDE MIKE POSNER??? In the pantheon of dudes singing about being dudes, he is way > fucking Girls. Who aren’t even in the top ten!
also:
“The chart is based on velocity rather than absolute popularity, so it will only show artists who are rising quickly—not those who are sitting in the No. 1 spot.”
Can we talk about this? I get that MTV wants to harness some of the roller coaster momentum that the internet has sprayed like buckshot over the music industry, and it’ll be fun to watch previously invisible bands “trend” their way onto the music meter one day and disappear the next. But isn’t this going to just flatten the internet even more? Isn’t it sometimes useful to know where the buzz is coming from? To slightly modify the unnecessarily violent buckshot metaphor, this kind of strikes me as MTV shining a flashlight around a dark club to see who the glitter is sticking to most. It’ll be a nice light show, but like, WHY?
Further weirdness: some of the text in the bio segments in each artist’s “widget-style box” comes straight from Wikipedia. Some is credited to specific writers at a source called “Rovi” that I’ve never heard of before. Those ones (or at least the ones for Jazmine Sullivan and My Darkest Days) actually come from the musician’s AllMusic bios. Armen has no bio. Posner’s is long and has no credit. Was it written by an MTV staffer? A publicist? Maybe nobody cares?
That said, this is packaged really nicely and I can definitely see myself wasting hours here.
