Billboard Launches Twitter Real-Time Charts

Billboard debuted its new Twitter Real-Time Charts yesterday (May 27th), four interactive music charts that will rank trending songs from popular and emerging artists based on how often they are mentioned in tweets in the U.S.

The Trending 140 Chart ranks songs based on acceleration of mentions in the past hour, while the Emerging Artists Chart measures tracks from up-and-coming artists who have fewer than 50,000 followers and who have never been a main artist in the Billboard Hot 100's top 50 spots.

The constantly updated real-time charts will be accessible on Billboard.com, and a recap of the rankings will be printed weekly in Billboard magazine.

The two other new charts are the Weekly Billboard Twitter Top Tracks Chart and The Weekly Twitter Emerging Artists Chart, which will display the number of shares that songs and artists accumulate every week.