Loser – Pitchfork – Have seen their readership fall off by a whopping 50%. Now what can that mean? Hypebot think that the likes of the Hype Machine have taken over. The Hype Machine takes the most popular songs on 1500 websites and posts them. Creator Anthony Volodkin said “I couldn’t believe there were people wasting their time writing about music”. The good news is that pretty soon streaming will sink The Hype Machine.
Winner – Bon Jovi – Bon Jovi tour too much and it has finally caught up with them. They can’t sell tickets to their July gig at the humongous Metlife and have cut their rates to lows of $15 and $25. So how does that make them a winner? It would’ve been more convenient and much more typical for a band of Bon Jovi’s size to keep quiet, their decision to discount tickets so heavily is at least in part the desire to give everybody the ability to check them out.