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What is BPI Radar? The BPI Radar is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). How do you use it? 1. You can search for artists, albums, and record labels. 2. Use the BPI Radar Indie 100 and Amazon Top 100 to help you find new music. There are also more top 10 lists broken out into genres to help you find what you like. 3. Use the "Find similar BPI-free albums" link next to any search result to find up to 10 BPI-free alternatives to the albums you know you like. Why should I use it? Just as people can currently find out where some products come from and who made them (Is this banana organic? Does this milk contain growth hormones? Were these clothes made in a sweatshop?), it is important to have that knowledge for as many consumer goods as possible. Knowledge is power, and knowing where the product came from can (and should) influence what you buy. The BPI is a group of several hundred record labels. The roster of members changes constantly (major labels create new subsidiary labels, popular artists are given their own labels, artists or labels leave the BPI due to creative or political differences, etc.) and it is almost impossible to keep track. Aside from memorizing the entire list, or having the list available and checking it while shopping, it is hard to know who is a member and who is not. How does it work? When you run the BPI Radar, it uses Amazon Web Services to get the album information. It then checks the record label data given by Amazon against a local database based on the official list of BPI members (but heavily added to beyond that), and returns the result based on a match. What if the BPI Radar result is incorrect? Since the album data is not ours, and the BPI member listings are terribly inaccurate and erroneous, it is possible that the Radar may return incorrect results. We do not claim that the data or the Radar results to be 100% correct, but we use a lot of user information and double-checking to make sure the application is as accurate as it can be by itself. The application should be used to help your purchasing research, not be it. The BPI Radar does not hold or own any of the album data, so we cannot change any of it except the result that comes up based on the record label given by Amazon. If you see a Radar result that you think is incorrect, there is a link next to every result which you can submit an item for review. Comments, corrections, or suggestions? Feel free to leave questions, comments, corrections, or suggestions in e-mail to ben@magnetbox.com. | |
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