When you want to embrace a new artist, where do you usually go?

You could totally lean on iTunes’ popularity charts. That’s what I did for the longest time — but the inaccuracy of that list is essentially why we wanted to create Rank ‘em in the first place. Who knows each artist better than their own fans?

We already get a good bit of random traffic for queries like “best STS9 songs” or “best Widespread Panic songs.” You can just sense that there’s all these fans out there that would love to dive into the catalogs, but don’t have a fucking clue where to begin.

It’s one of our internal goals to show up in the top 5 search results for every one of these queries: “best [artist’s name] songs.” Just look at the weak results that turn up for an artist like Phish. Same goes for replacing “best” with “top.” As described above, we’re already seeing that traffic coming our way, and it should only grow with time as the website becomes further established.

Forget about the common Silicon Valley startup mentality of a quick flip. We aspire to build a resource that can remain beneficial when we’re all long gone. That’s why we’ve put so much time & energy to date behind this project. We love to hear stories about helping fans find their new favorite song, especially if it was a hidden gem!