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Understanding Music Track Popularity In A Social Network, Jing Ren, Robert J. Kauffman
Understanding Music Track Popularity In A Social Network, Jing Ren, Robert J. Kauffman
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Thousands of music tracks are uploaded to the Internet every day through websites and social networks that focus on music. While some content has been popular for decades, some tracks that have just been released have been ignored. What makes a music track popular? Can the duration of a music track’s popularity be explained and predicted? By analysing data on the performance of a music track on the ranking charts, coupled with the creation of machine-generated music semantics constructs and a variety of other track, artist and market descriptors, this research tests a model to assess how track popularity and …