Why is my MySpace Music Page not on the Unsigned Top Artist Chart?
Question by Jaguar: Why is my MySpace Music Page not on the Unsigned Top Artist Chart?
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Here is my URL: http://www.myspace.com/aronlyrdmusic
I get roughly 50,000 plays daily, but can’t figure out why I am not in the top 200 for my genre or the Unsigned overall charts. Could someone please shed some light on this for me? Artists have gotten record contracts for getting less MySpace plays than I do, so I am seriously wondering what is going on with the Top Artist Charts. My genre is Alternative (rock). I looked yesterday and the artist at number 200 on the Alternative Rock Top Artist Chart only got 2 plays all day. I am simply baffled by this.
Below are a copied e-mail from my promoter and responses from MySpace in reply to my asking them both about this matter.
http://www.myspace.com/arlenewow
http://mysp.ac/dgpgf5 (Unsigned Top Artist Chart shortened URL)
“Hey,
That is rather strange. I sent out the industry newsletter that I do to help boost up your plays and it gets set out to around 7,000 people who check artists daily. The five individuals I have worked around the clock for you average about 200+ people an hour, so im going to ballpark and say around 30,000 were from us.”
-Breaker Entertainment
http://www.breakerentertainment.com/
“Thanks for contacting MySpace.
We’re totally committed to celebrating the best in music, art, and comedy. We get really excited when we discover new talent and get to showcase their work! However, MySpace.com does not release information regarding the methods used for calculating and publishing the Top Artist Charts that appear on the MySpace.com website.”
Sincerely,
MySpace Music Support
“Thanks for contacting MySpace.
We’ll need a little more info to help us review your question.
Please reply to this email, leaving the subject line intact, and provide us with the following:
1. Your MySpace friend ID or your MySpace URL: You’ll find your ID in the Web browser bar when you visit your MySpace profile or click on your MySpace thumbnail photo; it will look something like http://profile.myspace.com/…viewprofile&friendid=0000000 or http://MySpace.com/VanityProfile
2. The precise nature of your issue and what action(s) you’d like us to take
3. Details and supporting data, including MySpace IDs or URLs of other parties involved, transcripts of chats or messages or links to content you’d like us to review if that’s relevant
4. If you’ve contacted us before regarding this issue, include that correspondence (if you have it handy) so we can get up to speed, pronto!
We’ll review your question and get back to you soon.
Sincerely,
MySpace Music Support”
Best answer:
Answer by Mars 2.0
50,000 plays/ day seems like a really high number
myspace might think you are using something to get all those plays and won’t put you in the charts for that reason. they don’t give anybody the reasons/ means they use to decide who gets on the charts and who don’t
i doubt you’ll get very many other replies in here, contacting myspace is probably your best bet, but you may not get a straight answer or anything that answers your question.
you should try posting in this myspace forum, you may have better luck getting an answer there
http://forums.myspace.com/67.aspx?fuseaction=forums.viewforum
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