www.chartburst.com

I shall look into that! Thanks Simantel...

Could you possibly email me a screenshot of how this looks in your browser if you have a minute? email: info@chartburst.com

Thanks for the reply Dirk! Point noted on the background. It's been a bone of contention with us. I like it, my co-Founder less so but we will test it on the masses and get their feedback.

Regarding your other questions:

We have special access with A&R from Sony, Atlantic, Columbia, Warner Bros and more. We guarantee that if your music gets into the top 5 it will be heard by the most appropriate A&R person for that genre and feedback from them will be provided.

Any other questions?

Francis

The Musicians are the customers. They pay to upload to the charts and subsidise the listeners use of the site.

You might want to check out earbits.com (YC funded) and get in contact with Joey Flores. He's a great person and knows the industry a whole lot better than the vast majority of the HN crowd.

I shall check it out JCR. Thanks!

About time!

Alan Kay and others pioneers brought us object-orientation almost 40 years ago now, a set of organizing abstractions to enable people to conceptualize systems that could map to real world domains. What if there are even a higher order of abstractions that could place systems into semantic contexts? Perhaps this is where graphical abstractions could be useful to manage this complexity through visual constraints, thus transition the software engineering 'art' towards a true systems engineering 'discipline.' What fundamental properties restrict software engineering from such higher order tool evolution considering that visualizations have been applied to virtually every other scientific, business, and art domain?

Exactly Saiana! The big record labels don't accept unsolicited material which leaves unsigned musicians totally stuck! Our process vets the poor quality material but gives the talented people a chance to be heard. Glad you 'get it'!

Thanks for the reply huntesh! Grooveshark aren't involved with big record labels. We can get unsigned artists music heard by THE biggest labels ;)

Blazetrak (if I'm not greatly mistaken) pays their professionals and celebrities for their participation on the site. We think doing this is debateable... Our site is exclusively used by record label A&R contacts who are only using the site in order to find new talent for their respective labels. They have nothing to gain financially by using our site which gives our users peace of mind as they know that those reviewing their music are 100% committed to finding new acts.