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 points, 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.
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first off, this is a unique idea to combine RPG elements into a music streaming website, u can be addicted to it if u're a RPG fan, however, there're not a lot music to offer, if u're a RPG and a indie music fanatic, check this out, if u don't care about the RPG elements, go for RCRD LBL or other indie music websites.
Coming from a WoW addict & indie music fan, this fits me perfectly.
I've just substituted all other radios with thesixtyone!
A wonderful place when I have no idea what to listen to :)
I love The61, the Quests are fun, the music is amazing, and the ease with which you can discover new songs just makes the whole package an amazing website well worth using.
interface is unusual, and quests are annoyng. content is great!!!! i love this free service...hope that will remain free... I was disappointed with last.fm :(
Good idea and realisation. I'm was really happy when found that it's totaly "reloadless", what, as for me, is current most terribly problem of http://hypem.com.
This site is such an amazing way to find new musics. Far better than listen to radios.
It's my pearl discoverer.
Great way to find new music. It's still missing some key features but it's being upgraded pretty quickly.
Great site to discover new artists and music.
t61 is awesome and... uhm, awesome. Sorry, but it really is. Discovering new artists and music has never been as fun. :)
“The Rack” feature is great for music insights. My use case works fine:
— find what I like and listen to
— find similar to my favorites
Quests are very helpful for beginners, but they make you addictive to thesixtyone. :)
Discover new music as you complete quests, up your level and reputation same way as a game. How cool is that? brilliant!
Thesixtyone is a million times awesome. I don't like it's latest interface changes much, but the way the entire site works is great.
If the linux tracker worked, this would be my top web-app.
Love this site! I have found so much amazing music here.