Reinvent Retail

We’re launching our new company site here pretty soon, and we’re hard at work building our first major release.  But in the meantime, I still waste my time reading about all kinds of interesting things.  I was shocked that I hadn’t heard about The Whitburn Project (named after music historian Joel Whitburn) , whose goal is:

“Essentially, to preserve and provide the American pop, rock, and R&B music listed in all of the Whitburn BILLBOARD charted singles books.”

Web Developer and Blogger extraordinaire, Andy Baio has some cool charts after combing through 120 years (DAMN!)  of music chart data.  Check out his initial post and his follow up on one-hit wonders and chart longevity.  Pretty OCD data collection and even cooler trends.

UPDATE: Also, I was pointed to the BBC’s Sound Index. Pretty dope.