Music Ally

Kanye? Schmanye! Country star Taylor Swift has been digging out more gold via a partnership with US cable giant Comcast, which is launching a dedicated video-on-demand collection of her songs.

It includes music videos, behind-the-scenes clips, and the recent episode of Saturday Night Live that she hosted. “Taylor Swift is hugely popular on demand, consistently having the top-performing music videos on the service,” says Comcast senior VP and GM of video and entertainment Derek Harrar.

She joins existing partnerships with Green Day and U2 for Comcast, which says music is racking up 50-60 million on-demand views a month on its network.

We’re big fans of the We Are Hunted daily music buzz chart, and co-founder Nick Crocker wrote a comment piece in last week’s Music Ally Report. Now the company has launched a Twitter music chart, tracking tweets about music on the micro-blogging site, and analysing them to produce a chart of the most popular.

Here’s today’s top 10:

1. Lady GaGa – Lovegame
2. Taylor Swift – You Belong With me
3. Eminem – We Made You
4. Green Day – Wake Me Up When September Ends
5. Jonas Brothers – Burnin’ Up
6. Coldplay – Clocks
7. Drake – Best I Ever Had
8. Paramore – Decode
9. Kings of Leon – Sex On Fire
10. Radiohead – Karma Police

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