Google enters the Music Chart Fray

There's Billboard and CMJ as the old tenets of music chartdom. Now comes Google Music Trends. If you use Google Talk and share your listening preferences your data is updated into the Google database and compiled to show what most Google Talk users are listening to. The results? Nothing surprising: Killers, James Blunt, Panic! at the Disco. *Yawn* Doesn't look that much different from the Last.fm chart.

There's always the Tripwire chart, the KEXP chart, Elbo.ws chart, Hype Machine chart, Radio 1 chart, ad infinitum. The most puzzling chart award goes to Myspace.

So much data, so little _____.