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Social music gaming company MXP4 has added two new titles to its gaming portfolio in the shape of Bopler Tap Tour and Bubble Music.

Bopler Tap Tour tasks players with touring the world by playing music games city by city. They get to experience playing live to crowds of fans as they progress up the music ladder through a series of ‘gigs’, sharing with and competing against their friends on Facebook.

BBC Radio 1’s The Official Chart is now visualising the top 10 best-selling singles in the Chart via the Radio 1 website for the first time, says Maria Stadtmueller. Listeners will be able to watch the final hour of The Official Chart every Sunday as Reggie Yates counts down the top 10 tracks.

Top-ranked US artist across social media platforms? That would be Lady Gaga, who heads the Groovecount US Music Leaderboard, compiled by Groovecount.com for brand-m, writes Maria Stadtmueller. The chart aims to provide a comprehensive perspective on popularity and digital reach in the region, aggregating data from five social networks and digital services.

MTV UK & Ireland worked with social media buzz outfit Musicmetric to take the pulse of fans’ responses to unsigned acts in its Brand New For 2012 contest. Dubstep and artist hip-hop Context has just been crowned the winner of the unsigned slot on the list.

Time to limber up for Grateful Dead: The Epic Tour. What is it? It’s a social game playable online and on mobile handsets, with players taken on a trip through Dead time as Grateful Dead Productions re-imagines 10 of the band’s most epic shows, writes Mark Terry.

Hertz and Live Nation have rolled out the Hertz Ticket To Ride contest, the first promotion of the two brands’ Hertz Movin’ With Music recently launched marketing campaign.

Music fans wishing to meet and interview soul band Fitz And The Tantrums need to head to Facebook, upload a holiday or road trip photo, select a version of the Hertz mascot, Horatio to add to the photo, then submit the image for consumer voting.