What are the different charts?
The Most Popular Music chart shows, not surprisingly, the most popular pieces of music, according to how many LiveJournal posts referred to them. As an alternative, the Most Popular Things chart reflects words and phrases that show up most often, whether bands or track titles (or even non-music terms, such as ‘none’, and ‘television’). This is more likely to promote bands with wide appeal, rather than a single current hit. As a combination of these, the Weighted Popular Music chart tries to show the most popular tracks by the most popular bands.