thefixer: You're getting your charts mixed up. The only chart the critique group stormed was the "favorite artist" list, which counts how many people added you as a favorite artist for that week. Someone can only vote you as a fav artist once, so if that chart were indeed buddy driven, then 20 new people would have to join the clique each week to keep it's members at the top. I know people love their catty conspiracies but in some cases the charts are accurate.