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We Are Hunted – The Top 99 Buzzed About Songs On The Net

If you’re looking for a great way to find new music, and not just any music, but music that people are actually listening to and talking about, WeAreHunted.com is a great resource. It crawls the net for online discussion and positive sentiment around particular artists, and then delivers the 99 most raved about tracks. You can filter the results by day, week, month, or year and even tell the app whether to look for the most popular specific songs, or the most popular artists.

From there, you can stream the songs in their entirety via an embedded player, or purchase the songs through iTunes links.

We Are Hunted is the Online Music Chart. We aggregate social networks, forums, music blogs, Torrents, P2P Networks and Twitter to develop a daily chart of the 99 most popular songs online.

I actually really like this means of finding songs. Obviously, there’s no way to accurately see what songs are truly the most popular overall, but rather what’s most popular for a given demographic (in this case, social network users). The same could be said for the Billboard charts though. In an age where people are favoring streaming music or file sharing rather than purchasing albums, it seems rather anachronistic to be ranking artists and songs solely by the number of sales. What you, as the music fan, need to be able to do is figure out which ranking source your tastes fall more inline with, and track that a bit more closely. For me, We Are Hunted provides a great way to discover new artists that I likely wouldn’t hear about from other outlets.

The biggest question I have is, how do they get all those random (yet song appropriate) pictures for each track?

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