Hopefully you’ve found a use for Rank ‘em to date, but we’ve known all along that the site was void of one major aspect.

As I’ve always maintained, we never set out to create the next streaming destination. There’s plenty of choices out there such as Pandora, Slacker & Grooveshark. I’ll write a blog post breaking down my perspective of the streaming space soon enough.

Each of the sites mentioned above deal with excessive royalty rates…that is if they go the legal route from the get-go. I know a number of sites that get takedown notices from labels on a daily basis. It’s a messy situation all around, and one that doesn’t serve artists or the businesses very well.

Considering it’s our mission to properly sort the entire catalogs of each artist, 30-second clips are much more relevant to our core competency. We want to expose you to as much of the each artist’s catalog as possible, and help you discover all the songs that you were meant to hear.

With that said, we want to give you a taste & point you in the right direction, because as I’ve described before, we consider Rank ‘em to be the ideal 2nd step in the music discovery process.

In the past, our temporary solution was providing a direct link to each artist’s clips on Amazon, but then you had to find the song you were looking for. Well, no more. As of earlier this month, millions of the songs now have associated 30-second clips!

Hopefully this will go a long way to helping you easily & efficiently discover some of the great music you’ve missed to date. As always, the retail options for full song purchase are only a click away from each artist’s page.

How can it help?

• You just received a rec for an artist, but don’t know which songs to start with.
• Your friend wants you to join him at a concert tonight? You only have a little while to make your mind up and check out the fan favorites on Rank ‘em.
• You’re trying to rank your favorites but you can’t remember how the song goes.
• You want to dive into a catalog from one of your favorite artists, and want to get a taste of some music you may have missed in the past.

Those are just four examples off the top of my head, but I imagine there’s plenty more. I’d love to hear how the samples are useful for you…

In the meantime, the site just became a lot stronger & will continue to grow with our expanding community!