Hype Machine is a music discovery service that aggregates new music posts from hundreds of blogs and sites to help listeners find emerging artists. Hype Machine's Twitter Score is 18 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #55,400 among 483,914 tracked accounts.
Hype Machine was founded by Anthony Volodkin and originated in a college dorm room, growing into a small independent service that remains listener-supported. The platform monitors hundreds of music sites, pulling together their latest posts into a single stream for discovery. According to its official website, Hype Machine is actively worked on every day and is in its 21st year on the web.
Hype Machine has a connection to the Web3 space through Zora, the onchain social platform, which provides additional support to the service per the official site. Separately, Volodkin joined Zora in 2022 to work on Future Tape, a platform-agnostic app for discovering music NFTs across Web3 platforms, though Future Tape operates as a distinct product and is not branded under the Hype Machine name. No official Hype Machine cryptocurrency token has been identified.
Hype Machine has published 10,935 posts on the platform and has 140,296 followers as of August 2026. The account has been mentioned by 242 accounts, with 4,009 total mentions.
Who follows Hype Machine on X?
The accounts that follow Hype Machine include 70 founders, 20 angel investors, 11 influencers and 1 VCs. Among them are jesse.base.eth, Tarun Chitra, Alexis Ohanian, Jake Brukhman, Camila Russo and Zora.