RECOMMENDED: The Sixty-One http://www.thesixtyone.com/

Our Mission

thesixtyone makes music culture more democratic: artists upload their work for review, but, rather than allow a stuffy suit in a boardroom to decide what's good, thousands of listeners do. The best music automagically bubbles up on our homepage where you can listen to the most popular songs for any genre. It's a quick way to find new music for your iPod powered by pure excitement as opposed to some contrived marketing budget.

Think you've got a good ear? Aside from customizing your experience, creating an account allows you to earn reputation, level up your influence, and collect badges for discovering and recommending good music that others may enjoy. On thesixtyone, tastemaking becomes fun, competitive, and trackable.

We're on a quest to help people fall in love with something new while giving deserving artists an efficient channel for finding their audiences. To learn more about how thesixtyone works, please see our FAQ.

Team

	James Miao Having worked in the video game industry since high school, James became bored of making more games about shooting aliens and wondered if gaming could be harnessed to entertain people and solve real-world problems. Prior to games, James hacked hardware as a teen, designing a media hub built on a custom UI optimized for the living room.
	Samuel Hsiung Sam previously co-founded WebShaka, the creators of YouOS (operating system in your browser) and ProjectWedding. During his school years, he also did work in audio fingerprinting and music recommendation by applying machine learning to digital signal analysis data. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the California Institute of Technology.
	Ben Olson - Intern, Summer 2008 According to Facebook, Ben enjoys really bad puns, redundancy, INTERCAL, obscure references, reflexive verbs, neologisms, redundancy, regular expressions, scolopendra gigantea, prefab/modular architecture, and Phaidon Press. He recently authored "Coldplay: Hannah Montana For Adults," a groundbreaking study published by Gobias Industries.

Press

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"thesixtyone is the most interesting music website I've seen since Last.fm."

-- Shane Richmond for The Telegraph

"thesixtyone is probably one of the most feature-rich, well thought-out music sites of its kind."

-- Lifehacker

"an interesting music discovery game that connects artists and fans."

-- Boing Boing