Artist popularity: do web and social music services agree?
1. Artist Popularity: Do Web and Social Music Services Agree?
Alejandro Bellogín, Arjen P. de Vries, Jiyin He
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
{a.bellogin, arjen.de.vries, j.he}@cwi.nl
@abellogin
varyatanil
Practical implications
No two indices are completely equivalent: we can
use them to promote diversified recommendations
Popularity indices
Artist’s
name
Service-dependent
Service-based indices change at a much lower speed
Web-based
clicks
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The Web index is highly dynamic
2
Limitations
No constraint on regions, but concerts and culture are
local events, important within a specific community
Positive vs negative popularity: exploit the context
(where an artist is mentioned) in the Web index
Open questions
playcounts
familiarity
cleaned
webpages
1,312 artists
Timestamped popularity indices (~ every 3 hours)
Are users more interested in currently popular artists
or they prefer those that are always popular?
Jan 21 – Mar 21
including the Grammy awards and The Oscars
Should all the reasons why an artist could be popular
considered equally important?
A
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Dataset
Check the source code and dataset at:
http://www.cwi.nl/~media/papers/ICWSM13
Temporal dynamics
webpages
popularity
4
C
Stability of popularity rankings
B
A. Removed from stage at Obama’s reelection. B. Announcement of new album’s title. C. 3 Grammy awards received
Correlations
rhythm and blues
Rock and Roll
heavy metal post−g runge
electropop rapcore
Lady Gaga Nu−metal black eyed peas
The Killers
legend
emo
female vocalists
sexy
hard rock
dance r&b soul
blues rock
Progressi ve
alternative rock
80s
electronica
favorites
english female
alternative
british
blues
metal
Queen 60s
rock
pop Hip−Hop
punk
Spearman
Rihanna
rap glam rock
Muse
USA
UK
punk rock
hip hop
electronic
glam
political
cross over
funk
indie rock
gaga
90s
indie Nu Metal
Grunge 70s
rnb
american
green day 00s
hiphop
pop rock
Progressi ve rock
dancehall
Tag clouds
urban
classic rock
Akonreggae
britpop
alte rnati ve metal female vocalist
dance−pop
Linkin Park
pop punk
male vocalists singer−songw riter
the rolling stones
foo fighters
System of a D own
expe rimental
Kendall
EchoNest
California
post−punk
Progressi ve indie pop singer−songw riter
post−grunge electronica
arctic mon keys
female vocalist male vocalists
Ranking-based comparison
alternative metal
gaga
electronic
soad
skate punk
Pop−punk
pop punk
femalevocalistsUK
metal
Lady Gaga
indie rock
brit rock
Awesome
USA
Grunge emo
rock
90s
pop
hardcore
alternative
indie punk
glam
green day
hard rock
britpop
Blink 182
political
Top-5
popular
artists throughout
the timespan of
our dataset
sexy
electropop
blink−182
00s
Muse
british
dance
pop rock
Metal
NuThe Killers
heavy metal cross over
diva
alternative rock
Nu−metal
punk rock
favorites
Ga rage Rock
Linkin Park
rapcore
Progressi ve rock american english
System of a Down foo fighters
new wave
expe rimental
Post−punk r evival
Last.fm
Rihanna american
club
Dirty South
r&b
dj
dance
barbadian
crooner
reggae
hiphop
Hip−Hop
french
trance
50s
California
House
jazz
florida
techno
electronica
David Guetta
dubstep
dancehall
Change in Jaccard similarity
when
more
artists
are
considered
west coast
USA
electro
soul
Flo Rida
blues
frank sinatra vocal 00s
rock
swedish
jazz vocal
G−funk
deep house
pop
ella fitzge rald
swing
Avicii
party
rnb rap
sexy
tech house
vocal jazz
electronic
Big Band
hip hop
oldies
easy listening
female
gangsta
legend
barbados
lounge
Snoop Dogg
malevocalists
female vocalists
Spotify
7th International AAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2013)
Boston, USA, 8-10 July 2013