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Digital Music Network Issues Rock, CHR, and Urban Charts of Online Song Spins Week Ended, December 7, 2001.


Entertainment Editors

BOSTON--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2001

The Digital Music Network (www.dmn.com) (DMN), which provides targeted marketing opportunities for leading record labels, portals, artists and radio stations, today issued charts of the 20 most popular Rock, Contemporary Hits Radio (CHR CHR

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), and Urban songs -- ranked by listener preference, number of unique listeners, play frequency and spin trend -- for the week ended December December: see month.  7, 2001.

Commenting on the release, DMN president, Gene Fein said, "We have two notable additions to the chart releases this week. First, based on the tremendous popularity of urban music on the Network, we have included a new Urban Chart. Second, we added a Trend column for each of the three charts, which includes information about the rise or demise Death. A conveyance of property, usually of an interest in land. Originally meant a posthumous grant but has come to be applied commonly to a conveyance that is made for a definitive term, such as an estate for a term of years.  of the popularity of the music being played on the Network. The Trend status and the DMN Power Rating further enhance our ability to convey convey v. to transfer title (official ownership) to real property (or an interest in real property) from one (grantor) to another (grantee) by a written deed (or an equivalent document such as a judgment of distribution which conveys real property from an estate).  relevant information about what is happening to users' interest in different songs. The DMN's online music charts have become a leading indicator Leading Indicator

A measurable economic factor that changes before the economy starts to follow a particular pattern or trend. Leading indicators are used to predict changes in the economy, but are not always accurate.
 for what people are listening to now, not a couple weeks down the line. The always up-to-date nature of our charts allows radio stations, music executives, and music fans to stay ahead of the curve and know about the hottest new music before anyone else."

The Charts
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             DMN Rock Chart, Week Ending December 7, 2001
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Rank  Song                  Artist                  DMN Power   Trend
                                                    Rating
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1     How You Remind Me     Nickelback              78.11       ++
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2     In The End            Linkin Park             70.98       +
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3     Chop Suey!            System Of A Down        69.31       --
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4     Crawling              Linkin Park             59.85       +
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5     My Sacrifice          Creed                   57.16       +++
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6     Giving In             Adema                   57.10       ++
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7     Smooth Criminal       Alien Ant Farm          55.92       =
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8     Alive                 P.O.D.                  53.73       --
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9     Stay Together
      For the Kids          Blink 182               49.66       +++
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10    Fat Lip               Sum 41                  49.37       -
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11    One Step Closer       Linkin Park             49.21       =
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12    Blurry                Puddle Of Mudd          48.57       +++
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13    Wait And Bleed        Slipknot                48.27       =
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14    In Too Deep           Sum 41                  47.33       -
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15    Left Behind           Slipknot                46.36       -
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16    Wish You Were Here    Incubus                 46.33       ++
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17    What I Always
      Wanted                Kittie                  45.06       +++
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18    Papercut              Linkin Park             44.81       +
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19    Down With
      The Sickness          Disturbed               44.59       -
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20    Heretic Anthem        Slipknot                43.62       =
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              DMN CHR Chart, Week Ending December 7, 2001
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Rank  Song                  Artist                  DMN Power   Trend
                                                    Rating
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1     U Got It Bad          Usher                   89.04       ++
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2     How You Remind Me     Nickelback              78.11       ++
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3     Chop Suey!            System Of A Down        69.31       --
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4     Fallin'               Keys, Alicia            64.55       +
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5     My Sacrifice          Creed                   57.16       +++
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6     Giving In             Adema                   57.10       ++
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7     I'm A Slave 4 U       Spears, Britney         56.56       =
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8     Smooth Criminal       Alien Ant Farm          55.92       =
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9     Always On Time        Rule, Ja                55.48       +++
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10    Get The Party Started Pink                    53.72       +++
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11    Whenever, Wherever    Shakira                 52.67       +++
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12    Rock The Boat         Aaliyah                 50.52       =
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13    Family Affair         Blige, Mary J.          50.35       +
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14    Differences           Ginuwine                50.18       +
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15    Stay Together
      For the Kids          Blink 182               49.66       +++
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16    We Fit Together       O-Town                  49.39       +++
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17    Hero                  Iglesias, Enrique       47.29       +++
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18    I'm Real -
      (Murder Remix)        Lopez, Jennifer         46.69       -
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19    Woman's Worth, A      Keys, Alicia            46.54       +++
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20    U Remind Me           Usher                   45.86       +++
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             DMN Urban Chart, Week Ending December 7, 2001
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Rank  Song                  Artist                  DMN Power   Trend
                                                    Rating
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1     U Got It Bad          Usher                   89.04       ++
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2     Fallin'               Keys, Alicia            64.55       +
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3     Always On Time        Rule, Ja                55.48       +++
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4     Rock The Boat         Aaliyah                 50.52       =
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5     Family Affair         Blige, Mary J.          50.35       +
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6     Differences           Ginuwine                50.18       +
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7     Ruler's Back, The     Jay-Z                   48.01       +
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8     Who We Be             DMX                     47.19       +++
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9     I'm Real -
      (Murder Remix)        Lopez, Jennifer         46.69       -
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10    Woman's Worth, A      Keys, Alicia            46.54       +++
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11    U Remind Me           Usher                   45.86       +++
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12    Trans DF Express      Dungeon Family          45.14       +++
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13    Caramel               City High               44.81       ++
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14    Livin' It Up
      (f/Case)              Ja Rule                 44.61       =
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15    Rollout
      (My Business)         Ludacris                44.57       +++
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16    Roll Out -
      (f/Petey Pablo)       Timbaland               44.27       +++
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17    Raise Up -
      (All Cities remix)    Pablo, Petey            43.84       +++
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18    Emotion               Destiny's Child         43.27       -
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19    Pass The Courvosier   Busta Rhymes            43.11       +++
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20    Girls, Girls, Girls   Jay-Z                   42.59       --
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How the Charts Are Compiled

The DMN produces weekly music reports, drawing from 7,974 unique respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy.  who generated 413,674 song plays. The Top 20 Rock Chart represents 1,677 of those unique respondents, generating 10,856 song plays in the rock genre genre (zhän`rə), in art-history terminology, a type of painting dealing with unidealized scenes and subjects of everyday life. Although practiced in ancient art, as shown by Pompeiian frescoes, and in the Middle Ages, genre was not recognized . The Top 20 CHR Chart represents 2,339 of those unique respondents, generating 11,964 song plays in the pop genre. The Top 20 Urban Chart represents 1,826 unique respondents, generating 9,837 song plays. The DMN Power Ratings are weighted rankings based on implicit ratings (the act of listening to a song), explicit ratings (actively registering a preference with the DMN), unique member song plays (the number of DMN members who listened to the song) and overall song spins.

Trend (a new addition to DMN charts)

The trend is an indication of the change in popularity of a given song over time on the Digital Music Network, calculated by comparing a weighted metric of the unique member song plays, overall song spins, and plays per member this week to the same information from the previous week, four weeks ago, and six weeks ago. The scale for the Trend is as follows:

         +++      Sky-Rocketing Popularity
         ++       Quickly Gaining Popularity
         +        Gaining Popularity
         =        Holding Steady
         -        Losing Popularity
         --       Quickly Losing Popularity
         ---      Burnt-Out; Time For A New Single!


About the Digital Music Network

Boston-based Digital Music Network is an online marketing, research and reporting service connecting the entertainment and consumer products industries to its highly segmented and receptive receptive /re·cep·tive/ (re-cep´tiv) capable of receiving or of responding to a stimulus.  consumer audiences. Its consumer-controlled Digital Music Network application empowers partners of DMN to create one-to-one one-to-one
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1. Allowing the pairing of each member of a class uniquely with a member of another class.

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 relationships with music fans, combining the power of viral Meaning "related or caused by a virus," with regard to computers and information technology, the term refers less to a computer virus than it does to information that spreads quickly via the Internet. See viral marketing and viral video.  and targeted relationship marketing to online properties more cost-effectively reach, consolidate Consolidate

To combine the assets, liabilities, and other financial items of two or more entities into one.

Notes:
This term is generally used in the context of consolidated financial statements.
, synergize, understand and increase their online audiences. Over 200 affiliates use the DMN platform as an integral part of their online marketing strategies. For more information, call 617/338-7440, visit www.dmn.com or e-mail info@dmn.com.

NOTE TO EDITORS: In the Trend Section and following legend legend

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