Fanum is a new music discovery platform that rates music Tastemakers based on how consistently and reliably they steer listeners to up-and-coming artists. We’re crowdsourcing fans’ musical choices to become the general public’s online guide through today’s endless sea of new music.Fanum gives everyone the opportunity to participate in the “Tastemaking” process, using a unique structure that recognizes Tastemakers for finding artists early on and utilizing their influence to build artists’ careers.Every Artist on Fanum has been added through Tastemakers (we don't randomly pull from public repositories). Tastemakers have the option to either add new Artists to the platform (getting credit for being first) OR their given a limited number of “headphones” per month, which they can use to back artists already on the platform. Our Tastemakers naturally become active promoters of these artists, since we link user success to the future success of the artists they choose to back.