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Following the news, one would think that music discovery is either dead -- or the hottest thing around. On one hand #TuneWiki announced its closure. On the other,  #SoundWave is arriving soon to a phone near you with support from some heavy hitters (like Steve Wozniak). Music streaming gained another player: Apple launched iTunes Radio. It is pretty much what you would expect from Apple, solid radio features with strong integration into the iTunes Music store, but no word yet on how it integrates with #iTunesMatch , your past purchases or your ratings (local and others.)   We have been hearing very good things about Google's #AllAccessmusic service. With the amount of data they have on us, we wouldn't expect less from Google.  The question HIVEBEATS asks is whether any of these services allow the expansion of one's taste, or simply keeps you within the same world of music you might have outgrown.  And while we are on the topic of Google, you may recall we've integrated YouTube into HIVEBEATS. Isn't it obvious that it will kill every other music streaming service? June was Daft Punk month, July is shaping up to be Kanye West month, no surprise there? (It is to us.) Don't miss the latest stats at the end of this email. We have seen Rdio pass iHeartRadio to become the second most popular service on HIVEBEATS.   And if you were wondering, we are way past 1 million data points... It's my birthday this month, please no gifts! Just invite your people to test HIVEBEATS. Burc Sahinoglu Founder Follow us on Twitter @hivebeats, we've started posting there. Get on the list here: http://hivebeats.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=1e5e7a03e94bbdaba78469948&id=2692218aa9

HIVEBEATS April News Hello, Since our last newsletter 2 major (expected) announcements in the digital music landscape: #TwitterMusic and Google #PlayMusicAllAccess . We only know that Google's product is $10.00 per month and it's a mix of #Spotify premium and #iTunesMatch . Twitter Music is about#musicdiscovery , but we think their efforts stop short of providing a good experience. HIVEBEATS provides much better discovery opportunities out of the box. You see music that is actually liked by people through our  HIVEBEATS Index™, a proprietary formula combining the number of plays and the number of people who are listening to that particular music. Through our YouTube integration we provide a whole world of discovery, content that no streaming service provides today. Live Concerts? Check. Special Appearances? Check... We're still refining it but it's blowing our socks off! As usual don't skip the latest stats at the end of this email. As of today with only 28 users, we are fast approaching 1 million data points. Burc Sahinoglu Founder Follow us on Twitter @hivebeats, we're going to start posting there, we swear! What's new We are working on HIVEBEATS what feels like 25/8. Go to the site regularly and give us your feedback. HIVE management One of the main improvements gives the user the opportunity to manage his HIVES while listening to music. Like what you hear? See who's listening to that music, and add him to your trusted HIVE. Don't like what you hear, just remove him. This approach addresses one of the main shortcomings of discovery systems. We provide a connection between what you are listening to and why plus we provide you an easy way to adjust what is suggested to you. HIVEBEATS Index™ Based on your feedback, we have tuned the ranking algorithm. We are experimenting with privileging the number of persons over total number of plays.  Some maniac listening to "Eye of the Tiger" a million times will not dominate the results. What's next We're still in alpha, but we're going to take on more users. Please spread the word, pass this email on. All a new user has to do is login at https://www.hivebeats.com with their Facebook credentials. To get ready, we are optimizing the sign-up process. We are adding new machines and made some major optimization to our backend. When we started in February, a new user had to wait 12 long hours before being able to use HIVEBEATS. Today we are down to 3 hours, and our goal is to get each new user in right away. The Numbers as of May 15, 2013 System Stats testers: 28 (+ 47%) connections: 17474 (+ 36%) percentage with public streams: 16.5% (+1.5%) music plays collected: 895,659 (+51%) unique songs: 186,326 (+30%) unique artists: 40,775 (+25%) unique albums: 71,229 (+30%) Top Services Spotify: 78% of plays (+) iHeartRadio: 8.5% of plays (-) rdio: 6.5% of plays (-) Top Tracks (April 2013) Get Lucky, Get Lucky, Daft Punk Stubborn Love, The Lumineers, The Lumineers Madness, The 2nd Law, Muse Top Artists (April 2013) Justin Timberlake Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Mumford & Sons Top Albums (April 2013) The 20/20 Experience, Justin Timberlake The Lumineers, The Lumineers The Heist, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Copyright © 2013 hivebeats, All rights reserved.

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