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# Hype Machine Outs Artists For Chart Manipulation
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/hype-machine-outs-artists-for-chart-manipulation/
- Published: 2009-07-02T08:26:47.000Z
- Updated: 2009-07-02T08:26:47.000Z
- Description: Music blog aggregator Hype Machine (no relation) has blacklisted more than 40 artists after discovering that they or their representatives had tried to manipulate it's "Popular" song ranking page. "We. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/07/hype-machine-outs-artists-for-chart-mani
- Author: Bruce Houghton
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[![Hype machine](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2011570abfa1b970c-120wi)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2011570abfa1b970c-pi?ref=hypebot.com) Music blog aggregator [Hype Machine](http://hypem.com/?ref=hypebot.com) (no relation) has blacklisted more than 40 artists after discovering that they or their representatives had tried to manipulate it's ["Popular"](http://blog.hypem.com/2009/06/the-new-popular-page/?ref=hypebot.com) song ranking page.

"We found several artists and blogs creating fake accounts on the site and favoriting their tracks to get higher visibility in the charts," Hype Machine editors wrote on their blog. "Because we’ve only recently switched to a chart based on the number of favorites, their efforts were not fruitful, however. We’ve locked the accounts we detected as fraudulent and suspended tracking blogs we’ve detected contributing to this." 

Hype Machine has taken steps to make chart manipulation and named the offenders.

**A full list of artists named by Hype Machine for abuse:**

> 607  
> Alexander Technique / Princess Superstar  
> Audiofun  
> Big Dope P  
> Burns  
> Caroline Reese  
> Death to the Throne  
> Decimals  
> Destructo  
> Disco Ruido  
> Emil & Friends  
> Flapsandwich  
> fragglerock  
> Foulhouse  
> Gareth Pearson  
> Girl Problems  
> Hot Knives  
> John Roman  
> Kid Legit  
> Kids at the Bar  
> La Zebra  
> Master Shortie  
> Meech  
> Messkid  
> Mustard Pimp  
> Religion  
> Richie Jamz  
> Sikki Kidz  
> Sonic Truth  
> Star Guitar  
> Streetlab  
> Super Milkmen  
> The Constellations  
> The Grenade  
> The Knocks  
> The Muscle Club  
> The Pragmatic  
> The Vanish  
> Three Fingers  
> VIKING  
> Weekend Warriors