Spintel Syndication Engine Radio play logs do not record which spins came from a nationally syndi...Spintel Syndication Engine Radio play logs do not record which spins came from a nationally syndi...
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Spintel Syndication Engine Radio play logs do not record which spins came from a nationally syndicated show and which the local station picked on its own. That gap is what lets a record label inflate a song's chart position by buying syndication. This is the detection engine that closes it. An 8-stage Python pipeline fingerprints song sequences across hundreds of stations, aligns the matches even when songs were added or dropped, clusters them into named shows, and tags every individual spin as syndicated or organic. The chart engine then publishes two rankings side by side: the public one and a stripped version showing real popularity. It runs daily on AWS as a serverless deployment, resolved 168 stations into 18 distinct shows, and replaced an analyst who tracked four to five shows by hand every morning.
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