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Why Musicians Need to Pay Attention to Big Data

November 1, 2015October 31, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Big Data, Future of Music

Amber Healy represented sister site Geeks&Beats at The Future of Music Conference in Washington DC last week. Here’s one of

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What Are The Most Timeless Songs Ever?

August 26, 2015August 25, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Big Data, Spotify, Streaming, Timeless

There’s so much cool data that can be culled from analyzing the behaviors and preferences of people who use streaming

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How Big is Social Streaming of Music? Big. And It’s Getting Bigger.

August 13, 2015August 13, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Big Data, Music Consumers, Next Big Sound, Pandora, Streaming

Next Big Sound is a data company owned by Pandora. Its job is to look at how people are consuming

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Random Music News for Wednesday, May 20, 2015

May 20, 2015May 19, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alt-J, Big Data, CFCF, Echo Nest, Joy Division, Killer Mike, Next Big Sound, Pandora, Peter Hook, Snow Patrol, Spotify, Streaming, Tinnitus, XWA

On this day 95 years ago, a Montreal station that went by the name XWA began broadcasting the first ever

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The Music Industry is Feasting on Big Data That You Generate

April 21, 2015April 21, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment Big Data, Echo Nest

Data is the new currency. The more that can be learned about and your habits, the more companies know what

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Music News
Music News 

Random Music News for Thursday, February 19, 2015

February 19, 2015February 19, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Afroman, Amy Winehouse, Beyonce, Big Data, Bob Marley, Bono, iTunes, Jimi Hendrix, Machine Head, Taking Back Sunday, Tenacious D, Vanilla Ice, Weird Al, Willie Nelson

On this day in 1878, Thomas Edison received a patent (no, 200,521) for his new talking machine called “the phonograph.”

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Here’s How Bands Can Use Big Data to Further Their Careers

December 29, 2014December 28, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Big Data, Pandora

MTV was struggling. The channel had signed on in August 1981 in the midst of a brutal recession, one that

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How Big Data Can Change the Music Industry

December 20, 2014December 19, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Big Data, Music Industry

Data is the new currency. If one can divine knowledge from the trillions of data points that are being generated

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Music Industry 

PBS Looks at How the Music Industry is Using Big Data

November 29, 2014November 29, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Big Data, Streaming Music Services

Think that streaming music services and download stores is only about delivering music to consumers? Think again. Big data is

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Here’s a Good Timesuck: YouGov’s Music Fan Profiler

November 23, 2014November 23, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Big Data, Profiler, YouGuv

YouGuv–a site that has absolutely nothing to do with any government or government organization–offers a tool that (allegedly) mines Big

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Streaming Music Services and the Big Data It Creates

September 12, 2014September 12, 2014 Alan Cross 1 Comment Big Data, Streaming Music Services

Do you subscribe to a streaming music service yet? If you do, you should know that every time you log

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