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Music Trends Discontinued.

Ben Allen [PersonRank 10]

Friday, April 4, 2008
16 years ago8,316 views

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Music-Trends/browse_thread/thread/5135488f4fd61eaf

http://www.google.com/trends/music

They could have improved on this. This is kind of upsetting.

Jared Cherup [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I mean, they never did much with the service to begin with. And even though Google is supposedly working on an updated GTalk client, they have really ignored it too.

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

It's not discontinued. The service currently returns a 502 error.

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

But the post on the Music Trends group sez,
"Dear Music Trends followers,
   We're sad to have to report that Google Music Trends is being deactivated."

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I didn't read that message. Anyway, the project wasn't very interesting and you can always get better rankings at last.fm: http://www.last.fm/music/+charts/track/

Zim [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Yep, I use last.fm actually, and it works well for me =)

Jérôme [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

last fm is good, but I prefer jiwa.fm. muxtape is good too, but certainly not to track tracks.

Jared Cherup [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

[put at-character here] Ben I definitely recommend last.fm if you liked Google Music trends.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Google Music Trends data wasn't updated for many months.

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

It was only a lab product anyways. I guess after almost 2 years it was time to let it go.

Ben Allen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I've been using Last.fm for some time.

Seeing your tracks that you've played in your Web History was cool. Kind of out of place, though.

Jared Cherup [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Um. I can see the tracks that I've played in my Web History still today. I never verified that this ended. I guess it was just tracking popularity of songs that ended.

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