By: Missy Leigh
In December 2010 Billboard launched a new music chart “The Social 50″. According to Billboard.com the chart is ”A ranking of the most active artists on the world’s leading social networking sites. Artists’ popularity is determined by a formula blending their weekly additions of friends/fans/followers along with artist page views and weekly song plays, as measured by Next Big Sound.” Nearly a year later and of those 50 artist at least 6 are what we now refer to as “youtube musicians”. A few of them are currently on tour. Targeting Justin Bieber’s tween demographic by posting covers of pop music, these song birds have paved the way for a new type of celebrity. Along with cover songs which you can purchase for download on I tunes, these artist also release original music which has proven to be widely successful within the social community. Below are last weeks chart children along with links to some of their work.
21 Christina Grimmie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Grimmie
25 Boyce Avenue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Avenue
35 Maddi Jane
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_Maddi_Jane
38 Austin Mahone
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Is-young-Texan-the-next-Bieber-2283382.php
45 Tyler Ward
http://www.tylerwardmusic.com/page2.html
46 Meg & Liz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_and_Liz
Other top artists:
Tiffany Alvord
http://www.tiffanyalvord.com/#!about-me
Megan Nicole
