Random music news for Saturday, October 22, 2022
Snake on a mother******g plane! No snakes in music news for October 22, 2022. Drake lost CAD$830,000 betting on soccer last weekend. I…I…can’t imagine… A Dave Grohl drum solo has
Read MoreBig Data
Can big data predict the most popular songs of the summer of 2018? The streaming services think so.
If you’re into this whole “song of the summer” thing–this idea that a single song can represent everything about the zeitgeist of the Northern Hemisphere summer–we can turn to big
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How Your Listening Data is Shaping the Future of Music
Every time you stream a song on any platform–Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, YouTube, Tidal, Deezer and all the rest of them–you leave behind a little mote of data. That
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Live Nation’s Concert Finder Chatbot is Sneakily Brilliant
As we go about our daily lives, we leave a trail of data smog, petabytes and exabytes of zeroes and ones that tell the universe where we’ve been, what we’ve done
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The Music Industry is Using Your Social Media Data to Predict The Next Big Thing
The amount of data we generate online every day is staggering. There’s an estimate that we create more information every 60 seconds than the whole human race was able to
Read MoreThe Music Industry Has Been Collecting Data on You for Years. Here’s What They Want.
From the moment we first signed online, we’ve all been leaving a trail of digital smog behind us. Corporations and advertisers realize that there’s plenty of gold in that data
Read MoreSpotify’s Algorithmic Battle Against Artists Like Taylor Swift and Kanye
So many artists hate Spotify and the idea of freemium streaming. The company, however, plans to fight back against boycotts with a very powerful weapon: Big Data. The Ringer reports.
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Digitizing the Music Industry’s Data
There’s never been more data available within the music industry for collecting, analyzing and reporting. Album sales and downloads, streaming data, YouTube views; all of these clicks feed into a
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Using Big Data to Discover the Next Big Pop Star
I received a note about the upcoming Juno Awards this week that parsed streaming data into predictions who might win. With Canadian artists dominating the U.S. charts, the JUNO Awards,
Read MoreAnd Now, Spotify Canada’s Predictions for Which Artists Will be Big in 2016
Here’s another Big Data analysis to go with the one released by Google and Pandora. Using all the analytics and listener tracking power at their disposal, Spotify Canada thinks we
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Google Tries to Predict the Biggest New Artists of 2016 Using Big Data
It’s that time of year again where we’re inundated with year-end best-of lists as well as predictions of which new artists will be big in the next 12 months. We’ve
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