NEWS :::: The Imperial Charts

So here’s the plan: we want to make a weekly chart of Imperial’s favorite songs and artists, not to dissimilar to the UK Top 40 (except the positions will be decided by play counts not sales).

How do we do this? Well first we need you!

There is a website last.fm and by signing up for a free account and downloading their software package it will, among other things, record the songs you listen to on your computer (iTunes, Spotify, WMP etc) and portable music device. N.B. Don’t worry, it doesn’t record anything that might incriminate you even if your mp3 library isn’t the most legitimate.

After doing this, join this group.Thats it. You don’t have to do anything else to take part.

Each week charts will be calculated for the group, and a run down of the most popular songs / artists will be published here and in the paper. Hopefully it’ll be interesting, but it heavily relies on enough people signing up to the group for any results to be worthwhile, so spread the word!

Last.fm does loads of other cool shit for you, because it knows who you like it can accurately recommend you new artists you might like, gigs you would like to go to and people who have the same music taste as you. If you like music, its an incredibly useful utility and best of all, free.