This paper looks at how self organisation can apply to the music industry. Two data sets, one of the 2010 UK top 100 and another of the UK top 60 ever are explored. These data sets are grouped by frequency, and plotted. It is found they largely obey a power law, and the reasons and implications of this relation are discussed
Nowadays we are often faced with huge databases resulting from the rapid growth of data storage tech...
We analyse more than 500 000 songs released in the UK between 1985 and 2015 to understand the dynami...
The way a song sounds depends on, among other things, what instruments are audible to the listener. ...
Radio airplay drives record sales and reflects the preferences of popular music consumers. Musical p...
Radio airplay drives record sales and reflects the preferences of popular music consumers. Musical p...
Listening habits are strongly influenced by two opposing aspects, the desire for variety and the dem...
We measure the complexity of songs in the Million Song Dataset (MSD) in terms of pitch, timbre, loud...
This paper investigates the processes leading to musical fame or obscurity, whether for composers, p...
Listening habits are strongly influenced by two opposing aspects, the desire for variety and the dem...
The present study assesses two types of models for melodic complexity: one based on expectancy viola...
<div><p>Listening habits are strongly influenced by two opposing aspects, the desire for variety and...
The accurate description of a complex process should take into account not only the interacting elem...
AbstractNowadays we are often faced with huge databases resulting from the rapid growth of data stor...
Demography, particularly population size, plays a key role in cultural complexity. However, the rela...
Music has tremendous cultural and commercial significance for people the world over. It is one of th...
Nowadays we are often faced with huge databases resulting from the rapid growth of data storage tech...
We analyse more than 500 000 songs released in the UK between 1985 and 2015 to understand the dynami...
The way a song sounds depends on, among other things, what instruments are audible to the listener. ...
Radio airplay drives record sales and reflects the preferences of popular music consumers. Musical p...
Radio airplay drives record sales and reflects the preferences of popular music consumers. Musical p...
Listening habits are strongly influenced by two opposing aspects, the desire for variety and the dem...
We measure the complexity of songs in the Million Song Dataset (MSD) in terms of pitch, timbre, loud...
This paper investigates the processes leading to musical fame or obscurity, whether for composers, p...
Listening habits are strongly influenced by two opposing aspects, the desire for variety and the dem...
The present study assesses two types of models for melodic complexity: one based on expectancy viola...
<div><p>Listening habits are strongly influenced by two opposing aspects, the desire for variety and...
The accurate description of a complex process should take into account not only the interacting elem...
AbstractNowadays we are often faced with huge databases resulting from the rapid growth of data stor...
Demography, particularly population size, plays a key role in cultural complexity. However, the rela...
Music has tremendous cultural and commercial significance for people the world over. It is one of th...
Nowadays we are often faced with huge databases resulting from the rapid growth of data storage tech...
We analyse more than 500 000 songs released in the UK between 1985 and 2015 to understand the dynami...
The way a song sounds depends on, among other things, what instruments are audible to the listener. ...