Spotification of Popular Culture in the Field of Popular Communication by Patrick Burkart

Author:Patrick Burkart [Burkart, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367483463
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Goodreads: 52577587
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

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Metrics and decision-making in music streaming

Arnt Maasø iD and Anja Nylund Hagen iD

ABSTRACT

Music streaming enables the tracking of listening behavior in more detail than any previous music-distribution format. While it is well known that streaming services collect troves of data, little is known about how stakeholders, including managers or label executives, make metric-based decisions and how they understand the impact of algorithms. The article uses anonymized interviews with music industry professionals, exploring how they use metrics in streaming services and examining their decision-making processes. The analysis concludes that they rely on a growing volume of data when making decisions about what to promote, and how. Nevertheless, most of the stakeholders focused on fairly simple metrics, such as salient spikes that were noticeable “at a glance.” When discussing these findings, we draw attention to the reinforcing feedback loops between metrics, data-based decisions and algorithms, questioning whether datafication acts to intensify trending events and diffusion of new music.

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