Attribution
BeatsVine's chart archives and discovery walls combine BeatsVine editorial work with public data from a small number of trusted third-party sources. This page lists each source and the licence under which we use it.
Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Year-end chart compilations on BeatsVine — the “Songs of 1995”, “Songs of 2004”, and similar walls — are sourced from Wikipedia. Each individual wall page links back to the specific Wikipedia article it was sourced from, and the article is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
We extract factual chart positions (which are not copyrightable per Feist v. Rural Telephone) into our wall format. We do not reproduce article prose. The attribution is provided per the licence's BY clause as a matter of respect for the editors who maintain those articles.
utdata / rwd-billboard-data (MIT)
Weekly historical Billboard chart data (Hot 100 from 2022 onward) is sourced from the utdata/rwd-billboard-data project, MIT-licensed (Copyright © 2019 UT Data).
Streaming platforms
Smart-link routing uses public APIs from Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube Music, Tidal, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, and Last.fm. Cover art is sourced from the platform that hosts each track. BeatsVine is not affiliated with any of these services.
MusicBrainz (CC0 / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Release metadata, recording-artist links, and ISRC validation are sourced from MusicBrainz. Per their license tier policy, the core data is CC0 and recording relationships fall under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
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