Entertainment Weekly to Feature Promosquad HitPredictor Information as New Music Chart

Entertainment Weekly to Feature Promosquad HitPredictor Information as New Music Chart

NEW YORK, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Entertainment Weekly, one of the nation's foremost sources for entertainment news and information, will feature promosquad HitPredictor's proprietary chart information in the magazine's expanded monthly music section, Listen2This. Promosquad HitPredictor, the music industry's leader in predictive song research, lists up-and-coming new music with hit potential. Their chart will run every month in Listen To This.

According to Jason Adams, a Senior Editor of Entertainment Weekly, "We'd been hearing from our readers that they were tiring of the same old charts and would be interested in one that predicted what's going to be hot. We're glad to be running Promosquad HitPredictor's chart and expect it to be a big hit with Listen To This readers."

"We are thrilled to be working with the staff at Entertainment Weekly and to be featured in their magazine," say HitPredictor's Guy Zapoleon and Rick Bisceglia. "It's a natural fit, having music fans determine what will be hot by participating in our research, and then being able to publish it for millions of their peers to see through a magazine as popular as Entertainment Weekly."

Promosquad HitPredictor has become the undisputed #1 brand of predictive music research in the nation, with charts also featured in Billboard magazine and the Billboard Radio Monitor. HitPredictor performs online predictive music research at their website http://www.promosquad.com/ with a huge nationwide database of music fans who rate songs, with results determining their "Hit" potential before they are released to the radio and retail.

Promosquad HitPredictor has predicted hundreds of hits over the past few years, with some of the most recent examples being "Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", by Green Day, "That's What I Love About Sunday" by Craig Morgan, "Mr. Brightside" by the Killers, "Let Me Go" by 3 Doors Down, "Ordinary People" by John Legend, and "Let Me Love You" by Mario.

Many major and independent record companies, artists, and artist managers now utilize promosquad HitPredictor's music research as a regular and essential part of their rollout of new music. HitPredictor's results are incredibly accurate, and are used to guide labels in picking which singles to release to radio, and even on which artists to sign to record deals.

Entertainment Weekly, a winner of four National Magazine Awards (two for General Excellence, one for Design and one for Special Interest) is America's leading consumer magazine of entertainment and popular culture. The magazine is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., and has a guaranteed circulation rate base of 1.7 million reaching an audience of 10 million readers.

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Source: Promosquad HitPredictor

CONTACT: Sarah Garvey, Entertainment Weekly, +1-212-522-6045; or Doug Ford, promosquad HitPredictor, +1-518-792-8900

Web site: http://www.promosquad.com/ http://www.htopredictor.com/ http://www.ew.com/

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