Billboard and Twitter partner to debut Hot Trending Songs music chart

Over the weekend, Billboard debuted a new ranking on Twitter that shows the most discussed tracks globally. The Billboard Hot Trending Songs Powered by Twitter offers a real-time ranking of the most discussed songs on the social network. It captures conversations over the past 24 hours and the past seven days.

The weekly version, covering activity from Friday through Thursday, will appear alongside Billboard's other weekly charts on its site and the @Billboard and @BillboardCharts Twitter handles every Tuesday.

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Discover new tracks with Billy

Billy isn’t the new resident DJ in your city. It is a new Android app designed to help you keep up with the latest music trends. It shows you the current Billboard charts and lets you sample all the tracks there using Soundcloud or YouTube. Billy will show you artwork, artist, and album details for each track and even show you official videos if they are up on YouTube.

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Twitter and Billboard partner to share trending tracks

After killing its #Music service, Twitter is taking another stab at its music strategy by announcing a partnership with music news magazine Billboard. The companies have introduced a Billboard Twitter Real-Time Chart, meant to monitor music conversation in the U.S. and create a “social soundtrack” of popular music trends. The chart will also be put up on Billboard.com so users can see the conversation happening on Twitter. You can follow @Billboard and @TwitterMusic to get regular updates on trending songs and popular artists as well.

Source: ReadWrite