Are The Billboard Charts Accurate?
Currently the Billboard Top 200 shows Hannah Montana Soundtrack, Day 26, Rascal Flatts and the Twilight Soundtrack rounding out the top four albums for this week. But how much can we really trust this ranking. The Billboard Hot 100 started on August 4, 1958 with Ricky Nelson’s song “Poor Little Fool” being the first to top the list. Since then the music industry has gone through so many changes that Ricky Nelson wouldn’t even recognize it anymore. Artists have learned through the years how to play the system in order to get their album or single to the top of the charts by timing their release during the weakest possible competition or by massively discounting the single or album to the point where each individual sale represents a financial loss. In this time where most music is purchased or discovered via the internet We Are Hunted have started using the latest technology of social networks, forums, P2P networks and Twitter in order to agregate an accurate list of the top artists tha
