A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about an outfit called TuneBoom that artificially enhances MySpace numbers.
I’ve always considered things like MySpace numbers and charts to be of no substance. They are numbers that do not reflect record sales. Numbers that have nothing to do with commerce other than somebody making $147 for [...]

Do you ever wonder how bands rack up so much support for their MySpace pages?
This is from Eliot Van Buskirk at Wired.
Labels, promoters and music reviewers often check a band’s MySpace page to see how many plays they have, as an easy way to tell whether anyone else is listening to the band. They may [...]