Billboard has announced that it is debuting a new chart, the Social 50, presented by ZYNC from American Express, which ranks the most active artists on the world’s leading social networking sites. The Social 50 chart will tally artists’ popularity using a formula blending weekly additions of friends/fans/followers along with weekly artist page views and weekly song plays on MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and iLike. Data from these sites is gathered and provided to Billboard by social music tracking service Next Big Sound.
The Social 50 emphasizes friends/fans behavior above other activities, followed by artist page views and song plays. The final ranking also includes a unique metric measuring the ratio of page views to fans.
The full chart is available at Billboard.com.
