We Are Hunted, the site that compiles the most popular 99 songs on the internet for your listening pleasure, has gone one step further by now providing a similar list of the top songs on Twitter. The original We Are Hunted chart already combs Facebook, MySpace, message boards, forums, Twitter and P2P networks to give you the latest music, but the “Twitter only” version provides a completely different list.

A quick comparison of the two charts shows that Twitter users are discussing older music, or perhaps the music that has stayed popular over the years, with bands like Jimmy Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Iron Maiden, Faith No More and Rage Against The Machine.

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Hey BeatCravers! Are you having trouble finding free legal music available on the Internet? To help you get the music you want, quickly and without having to jump through legal hoops, we’ve compiled our top five favorite online destinations for your free music needs.

Popular sites like Myspace, Last.fm and Pandora are lagging behind when it comes to innovation in navigating the thousands of bands available online. Our top five sites promise new ways of finding and sharing music, so check out the list below, and tell us what you think:

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Two new music services appeared recently: We Are Hunted and Twt.fm. The first collects data from social networks to serve up the best 99 songs of the day, and the latter is a tool that finds and creates pages for songs, and lets you post them directly to Twitter.

We Are Hunted tracks characteristics like “sentiment, expression, and advocacy” in comment sections, forums, blogs, P2P networks (and Twitter), and sorts out the top songs of the day. The site is nicely designed and it’s easy to navigate and listen to the chosen 99. There are links to buy the tracks on iTunes, and though many of the artists are new, I was glad to find tracks from DJ Mehdi, Holy Fuck, Mr. Oizo, and no less than six songs from Yeah Yeah Yeahs amongst the elected.

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