Idolator
A 58% year-to-year increase in monthly unique visitors has resulted in imeem becoming the No. 1 destination for streaming music on the Web, according to statistics collected by compete.com in March 2008; the former No. 1, Yahoo! Music, slipped to No. 2 on a 14% year-to-year dip (9.6 million). Coming in at No. 7 on the Compete countdown with 2.3 million uniques: HM1500, a shorthand term for the aggregate unique-visitor traffic of more than 1,500 music blogs tracked by the Hype Machine. (The Machine itself is at No. 16.) One glaring omission from Compete's list: YouTube, which I use for streaming much, much more than any of the sites in the top 20. (I know, I know, pulling music-only data out is a pain in the butt, but they're an analytics company! They can analyze!) [
Did Yesterday's April Fool's Day Pranks Fool You, Too?
(Ed. note: Yesterday was April Fool's Day, which spurred several music-related prank attempts on the web. In an effort to prevent mass "WTF??!" email missives, we present this handy fact-checking guide)- The AC Gambler report that U2 has purchased the Trump Marina, which the group will use to launch such new ventures as "a high-end watch boutique" called "11 O' Clock Tick Tock": FALSE
- Bob Lefsetz's 2,000,000-word missive about Jimmy Iovine heading to Limewire: FALSE
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- The Hype Machine's announcement of a partnership with "Google, Microsoft, AOL, FBI, NSA and the US Department of Homeland Security" for a new music-recommendation strategy: FALSE
- The NME news item about a cover of the Proclaimers' "500 Miles" claiming its second week atop the British singles chart: WEIRDLY TRUE
