Jason Hayes
Jason Hayes is a Senior Composer for Blizzard Entertainment and was Lead Composer of the original release of World of Warcraft. He left Blizzard suddenly when World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King came out for unknown reasons, but returned with World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria in Patch 5.1. Hayes has also worked on the StarCraft franchise and Warcraft III, as well as Hearthstone. Derek Duke, Glenn Stafford and him were the original music team for StarCraft.
The Groove is music.nw’s own measure of renown — not an opinion, a fact computed from the record. It weighs reach (how many people engaged) against acclaim (how highly they rated it), balanced so a handful of votes can’t outshout a lasting favourite.
Computed the NeuraWeb way, across the whole record. The same yardstick for everyone — which is why the little-known can out-Groove the famous in their own corner.
How Jason Hayes moved
Genre belongs to the record, not to the artist. Every album’s Groove is shared out across the genres it actually is — by how the raters tagged it — so nobody is 100% one thing. Stack that by decade and a career draws itself.
