MONTHLY E-MAIL

The Hype Machine sending me e-mails with a 'special music update', as they say. I used to get e-mails from them when I first joined but only in the past few months has there been this personal information sent to you, with things such as Weekly Activity, Top Songs, Top Blogs. 


They still keep you updated with general Hype Machine activity such as Popular songs and blogs.

You've received this message because you have a Hype Machine account. Looks weird? View this in your browser   Dearest niallant, Royksopp's Album "Senior" Premieres on Hype Machine We teamed up with Royksopp + Soundcloud to let you stream their entire new album a week before it hits stores. September's Radio Show! Download the entire show or stream online now. Featuring the month's hottest music from Ra Ra Riot, Glasser, Small Black, Vivian Girls, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool and the bloggers behind Chipped Hip, Tympanogram, and My Old Kentucky Blog. Sincerely, George Taylor McKnight Your Weekly Activity » 70 played tracks Artists you've heard the most this week 11 Benga 7 Cookie Monsta  4  4 Duck Sauce  3 Dj Cable Vs. Tempa T & Rusko  Your most played songs this week » 5 Benga - 26 Basslines 3 DJ Cable Vs. Tempa T & Rusko - Mr. Muscle's Hype 3 TC - Where's My Money (Caspa Remix) Blogs you've listened to the most 6 LIVE FOR THE FUNK 5 Fat Berri's  5 redthreat  Most Blogged Artists » The Tallest Man On Earth • Acid Washed • Kanye West •The Drums • Neon Indian Most Popular Songs » 1 Magnetic Man ft. John Legend - Getting Nowhere 2 Afrojack - Take Over Control (Adam F Dubstep Remix) 3 Electric Light Orchestra - Mr Blue Sky 4 Boys Noize - Yeah 5 - 01-Music-Sounds-Better-With-You-Eat-More-Cake-Remix Want these emails to be more personalized? You can create a custom feed of music full of your favorite tracks, artists, blogs and friends simply by clicking the hearts around the site. More Fun Contribute to the Twitter music charts or grab a badge or logo for your site. Check out our official blog for what's new, follow us on Twitter and email us with questions! This email was sent to you by The Hype Machine Inc. 2165 Brigham St Suite 3F, Brooklyn, NY 11229. Unsubscribe or adjust email preferences here. Though, we think you may have more fun with this random track.

Good good e-mails.

HYPE 2009 SURVEY

On the Hype Machine Blog I saw that they had done a 2009 survey, finding out all information of what people think of the site and how and why the use The Hype Machine.

This is the information I found.

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Our annual user survey went over really well this year. Over 2600 of you responded and we gave away some great prizes. Below are some highlights, but check out our demographics page for the full stats and charts.

Our audience

• 51% are 18 to 24 years old
• 35% are in college, 30% are college grads
• 69% are male
• 73% spend money on concert tickets
• 46% spend money on MP3s
• 30% spend $21-$40 per month on music
• 31% spend $41+ or more
• 61% attend 1-2 concerts every month!
• 20% are music bloggers
• 20% are DJs
• 24% are musicians

For the first time we asked a series of questions to better understand how and why you use The Hype Machine. Thanks to Dave Stanton at Eikos Data for helping us interpret this data!

Cluster A (52% of total respondents)
Males who use music sites to:
1. Find new music in familiar genres
2. Find music before it’s popular
3. Find music they don’t already know

Cluster B (21% of total respondents)
Females who use music sites in the same ways as Cluster A plus:
4. Find bands recommended by word of mouth

Cluster C (27% of total respondents)
These are male and females have even, heavy reliance on the above four uses plus:
6. Want to see what people are saying about music
7. Share music

How would you describe The Hype Machine to a friend?

• Great place to find music by artists you haven’t heard of yet
• the most awesomest awesome music site on the Internet
• Love in a jukebox on the internet
• The collective consciousness of the online music world.
• This website has psychic abilities, it knows which tracks are going to be hits before anyone else…and its easy to use.
• The Hype Machine is the most user-friendly MP3 blog aggregator and a fantastic tool for both bloggers and fans.
• A fine place to find new songs for an ambitious music taste.
• A place where you’ll always find what you never knew you’d like.
• The best thing the internet has ever seen, not counting porn.
• Omy freak leak loop amazingness you gotsta check out this whip snippy doodle doo music site I found. It goes by the name The Hype Machine, and they have uber huge no splooge amounts of brain tuck duck muck fuckingly spec music. Check it out, if not for the sake of friendship, at the least to braingasm spasm love happiness yourself into audible epiphany!
• Eclectic and eye opening.
• Imagine Google Reader as a playlist. Now imagine it comes ready with all the best music blogs you don’t even know exist.
• Way more fun than watching your itunes visualizer after snorting Columbian nose candy.
• If you’re into music, there’s no way you can miss this.
• HM = real time information about the music you like and will like

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I found this really interesting and seemed completely appropriate. It matched exactly what I would have thought, people left great comments of the site and really brought together the whole feeling of the site and the community with in it. 

For sure I am Cluster A. 

SHARE AND DOCUMENT YOUR LISTENING HISTORY

Some of the benefits of having a Hype Machine user account are cool new ways to share the music you discover.

Connect your account to Twitter and the machine will auto-tweet your favorite songs, bands and blogs. Connect to Last.fm and you’ll be able to keep track of everything you listen to on your Last.fm profile! Here’s how:

Connect to Twitter

Step 1: After you are logged in, hover on Dashboard, then click on “settings”

Step 2: Click on the Twitter tab and fill in your Twitter username and password. Then check the boxes if you want songs, blogs, searches and friends automatically tweeted.

Step 3: When you favorite something on the Hype Machine, it will automatically be posted to your Twitter account!

Connect to Last.fm

Step 1: After you are logged in, hover on Dashboard, then click on “settings”

Step 2: Click on the Last.fm tab and fill in your Last.fm username and password and make sure the scrobbling box is checked.

Step 3: Songs will automatically show up on your Last.fm profile page!

ZEITGEIST

Zeitgeist meaning ‘The Spirit of the Age’.
The Hype Machine do a best of the year. Artists, albums and songs, but as The Hype Machine states forget magazine editors, marketing, this music listed has been chosen by the most passionate music fans and bloggers.

50 ARTISTS

"The Top 50 Artists of 2009 according to how frequently the blogs listed on The Hype Machine posted their songs.
50 visual artists were invited to create a new piece of work inspired by and including the band name."

The designs and artworks for the top 50 are really good, they are all differ entirely from one another and try and really capture the artist themselves.

Here are the top 10 chosen for ZEITGEIST

10. FEVER RAY

by Evan Meister

09. ROYKSOPP

by Mark Silipo

08. LITTLE BOOTS

by Nick Guinta

07. MICHAEL JACKSON

by Yiying Lu

06. THE XX

by Meredith Gran

05. GIRZZLY BEAR

by Mike Perry

04. YEAH YEAH YEAHS

by Zoya Feldman

03. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

by Nicole Momaney

02. PASSION PIT

by Niky Roehreke

01. PHEONIX

by Ryan Catbird

My two favourites have to be Grizzly Bear by Mike Perry, and The XX by Merdith Gran, pretty well suited I suppose as I do really enjoy both Grizzly Bear and The XX.

I really like Mike Perry's work, and with this it is really illustrative typography, very free and flowing. His typography work kind of reminds me of Ed Fella's type. It is very illustrative and colourful, yet Perry's work is a lot more brash and bold

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I think the idea of getting designers to each develop a piece per artist is a really cool idea, makes the whole thing so much more interactive and personal. Rather than the website just doing a photo of the band with their rating, this creates such a better atmosphere, whilst getting more people involved.

Hype Machine being community driven once again.