Critical Metrics is a web-based music recommendation service. Unlike user-driven sites like The Hype Machine and Pandora, Critical Metrics features only expert-generated content. Aggregating reviews and playlists from over 150 publications, both print and online, the site also encompasses historical sources. The site then ranks the songs mathematically, based on the information gathered.

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  • Critical Metrics is a web-based music recommendation service. Unlike user-driven sites like The Hype Machine and Pandora, Critical Metrics features only expert-generated content. Aggregating reviews and playlists from over 150 publications, both print and online, the site also encompasses historical sources. The site then ranks the songs mathematically, based on the information gathered. With a methodology based in the fields of bibliometrics and sentiment analysis, Critical Metrics quantifies these positive citations and sentiments into indices for media playlisting and consumption. Streaming audio and YouTube videos are presented with the original recommendations, along with the option to purchase via iTunes or other online retailers. When the site was launched in April 2007, it hosted the streaming music itself. A licensing arrangement with Rhapsody removed the free music, but allowed unlimited listening and playlist-building for Rhapsody subscribers. Critical Metrics was founded by Joey Anuff, the co-founder of Suck. com and a former VH1 executive. The site was praised by Boing Boing, the Wall St. Journal, and Business Week. Los Angeles Times senior music critic Ann Powers referred to the site as her "favorite snobby top 40 station."
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  • Joseph Anuff
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  • March 2007
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  • Critical Metrics
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  • Critical Metrics LLC.
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  • Professional Reviews/Ratings of Entertainment Media
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  • Critical Metrics is a web-based music recommendation service. Unlike user-driven sites like The Hype Machine and Pandora, Critical Metrics features only expert-generated content. Aggregating reviews and playlists from over 150 publications, both print and online, the site also encompasses historical sources. The site then ranks the songs mathematically, based on the information gathered.
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  • Critical Metrics
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