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# Slacker Launches Digital Age Music Charts: Songs Fans Love + Songs That Suck
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/slacker-launches-eq-music-charts-measures-songs-fans-like-and/
- Published: 2013-06-06T10:45:34.000Z
- Updated: 2013-06-06T10:45:34.000Z
- Description: Music streamer Slacker today launched EQ Score, a new take on the music charts that measures not what tracks a fan likes, but also which ones they don't. Music charts. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/06/slacker-launches-eq-music-charts-measures-songs-fans-like-and.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Music Tech, Streaming, arts, Facebook, Google, music, Record chart, Slacker, Social Media, Twitter, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:43

[![image from www.blogcdn.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2019103060a28970c-200wi "image from www.blogcdn.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2019103060a28970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

Music streamer Slacker today launched EQ Score, a new take on the music charts that measures not what tracks a fan likes, but also which ones they don't. Music charts were about sales and radio airplay, but the rise of streaming and social media alongside declines in sales and traditional media have led to an almost constant reconfiguring of what constitutes a hit.

Slacker's solution is to assign a number from 1 to 100, a Slacker EQ (Entertainment Quotient) score that measures hundreds of  
millions of weekly data points that show how deeply users are engaging with a song on Slacker. Uniquely, the Slacker algorithm is based on both on positive and negative actions, including:

- **Starts**  
– the number of times a song was started on the Slacker service
- **Completes**  
– the number of times a song was listened to in its entirety
- **Hearts**  
– the number of times a user “hearts” a track, requesting to hear it more  
frequently
- **Shares** –  
the number of times a user shares a track via Facebook, Twitter, Google+,  
Tumblr, Pinterest or email
- **Skips** –  
the number of times a song is skipped before reaching completion
- **Changes** –  
the number of times a user changes the station when a song plays
- **Bans** –  
the number of times a song or artist is banned from playing again

The company produced the infographic on how EQ works:

[![image from wpcache.slacker.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201901d0ff488970b-450wi "image from wpcache.slacker.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201901d0ff488970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

Slacker [EQ scores](c:\Users\bbaer\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary%20Internet Files\Content.Outlook\P3DMPJIU\blog.slacker.com\EQ) will be released every Thursday, tracking 40 songs across multiple genres from the previous week. Slacker has also [launched a station](%20http://www.slacker.com/station/the-slacker-top-40) that counts down the 40.

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