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Random music news for Saturday, October 22, 2022

October 22, 2022October 22, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Art Bergman, Big Data, Drake, Kanye, Mafia, Micky Dolenz, Monkees, Parler

Snake on a mother******g plane! No snakes in music news for October 22, 2022. Drake lost CAD$830,000 betting on soccer

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Music News 

Can big data predict the most popular songs of the summer of 2018? The streaming services think so.

June 13, 2018June 14, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2018, Big Data, Song of the Summer

If you’re into this whole “song of the summer” thing–this idea that a single song can represent everything about the

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Music Industry 

How Your Listening Data is Shaping the Future of Music

December 1, 2017November 30, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Big Data, Streaming

Every time you stream a song on any platform–Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, YouTube, Tidal, Deezer and all the rest

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Music Industry 

Live Nation’s Concert Finder Chatbot is Sneakily Brilliant

September 15, 2017September 15, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Big Data, Chatbot, Live Nation, Ticketmaster

As we go about our daily lives, we leave a trail of data smog, petabytes and exabytes of zeroes and

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Music Industry 

The Music Industry is Using Your Social Media Data to Predict The Next Big Thing

August 14, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Big Data, Streaming

The amount of data we generate online every day is staggering. There’s an estimate that we create more information every

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Music Industry 

The Music Industry Has Been Collecting Data on You for Years. Here’s What They Want.

March 28, 2017March 28, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Big Data, Data, Datamining

From the moment we first signed online, we’ve all been leaving a trail of digital smog behind us. Corporations and

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Music Industry 

Spotify’s Algorithmic Battle Against Artists Like Taylor Swift and Kanye

June 7, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Big Data, Echo Nest, Spotify

So many artists hate Spotify and the idea of freemium streaming. The company, however, plans to fight back against boycotts

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Music Industry 

Digitizing the Music Industry’s Data

June 6, 2016June 5, 2016 Amber Healy 0 Comments Big Data, Metadata, Music Industry, Royalties, Technology

There’s never been more data available within the music industry for collecting, analyzing and reporting. Album sales and downloads, streaming

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Music Industry 

Using Big Data to Discover the Next Big Pop Star

March 24, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Big Data, Juno Awards

I received a note about the upcoming Juno Awards this week that parsed streaming data into predictions who might win.

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Recommended Music 

And Now, Spotify Canada’s Predictions for Which Artists Will be Big in 2016

December 4, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2016, Analytics, Big Data, Predictions, Spotify

Here’s another Big Data analysis to go with the one released by Google and Pandora. Using all the analytics and

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Music News 

Google Tries to Predict the Biggest New Artists of 2016 Using Big Data

December 1, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment 2016, BBC, Big Data, Google, Google Play Music, Sound of 2016, YouTube

It’s that time of year again where we’re inundated with year-end best-of lists as well as predictions of which new

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