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Billboard to Track Artists' Popularity On Facebook And Twitter
Billboard has introduced a new chart offering called the “Social 50,” which ranks the most popular artists on social networking sites. The Social 50 chart will track artists' popularity using a formula blending weekly additions of friends/fans/followers along with weekly artist page views and 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.
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