![]() That app recommended songs and artists partly based on what was trending on Twitter, which maybe isn't a good sign for the success of the new Billboard chart. (Twitter’s app plummeted to the 165th ranking of free music apps last fall.) ![]() It bombed, partly because you can't actually stream music from Twitter, and partly because the recommendation algorithm just wasn't cutting it in a sea of similar music apps. Music was also supposed to harness the site’s active music “conversation,” mainly by helping users discover new names. We continue to experiment with new ways to bring you great content based on the music activity we see every day on Twitter. ![]() If you have the app, it will continue to work until April 18. Later this afternoon, we will be removing Twitter #music from the App Store. The Billboard deal comes just weeks after it officially killed its #Music app, just a year after the app launched to much hype and celebrity fanfare. The company, according to today's press release, hopes to inspire a new way of interacting with music.īut Twitter’s been hoping for that for a while now, and for the most part failing. The idea is that Twitter activity is an early sign that a song's on it's way to topping the charts. Another version of the Twitter chart is the Emerging Artists list, which will track the same activity but filter it by up-and-coming musicians, defined as artists with less than 50,000 Twitter followers that have never made the top 50 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 before.
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