Race, gender, and the<i>Billboard</i>Top 40 charts between 1997 and 2007

Lafrance, Marc; Scheibling, Casey; Burns, Lori; Durr, Jean

doi:10.1080/03007766.2017.1377588

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“…One of the most influential collection of music charts, the US-based Billboard charts, has been used in this context to examine the evolution of popular music and to test theories of cultural change [1]. Other approaches concentrated on the fractional representation of race and gender [2,3], on the distribution of blockbusters among superstars [4], on linguistic and psychological aspects [5,6] and on the question whether there is a trend towards a converging global popular music culture [7]. For the UK charts, a correlation analysis between musical trends, acoustic features and chart success has been performed [8].…”

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Five decades of US, UK, German and Dutch music charts show that cultural processes are accelerating

Schneider

Gros

2019

R. Soc. open sci.

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Analysing the timeline of US, UK, German and Dutch music charts, we find that the evolution of album lifetimes and of the size of weekly rank changes provide evidence for an acceleration of cultural processes. For most of the past five decades, number one albums needed more than a month to climb to the top, nowadays an album is in contrast top ranked either from the start, or not at all. Over the last three decades, the number of top-listed albums increased as a consequence from roughly a dozen per year, to about 40. The distribution of album lifetimes evolved during the last decades from a log-normal distribution to a power law, a profound change. Presenting an information–theoretical approach to human activities, we suggest that the fading relevance of personal time horizons may be causing this phenomenon. Furthermore, we find that sales and airplay- based charts differ statistically and that the inclusion of streaming affects chart diversity adversely. We point out in addition that opinion dynamics may accelerate not only in cultural domains, as found here, but also in other settings, in particular in politics, where it could have far reaching consequences.

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Five decades of US, UK, German and Dutch music charts show that cultural processes are accelerating

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2019

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“…4. Lafrance et al (2018) have applied a similar statistical analysis to the success of music made by women as measured in Billboard chart data. 5.…”

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Content and Correlational Analysis of a Corpus of MTV-Promoted Music Videos Aired Between 1990 and 1999

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From 1990 to 1999 MTV promoted a series of 288 music videos called “Buzz Clips”, designed to highlight emerging artists and genres. Such promotion had a measurable impact on an artists’ earnings and record sales. To date, the kinds of musical and visual practices MTV promoted have not been quantitatively analyzed. Just what made some videos Buzzworthy, and others not? We applied two phases of content analysis to this corpus to determine the most common sonic and visual signifiers in Buzz Clips, then processed the results of that content analysis using polychoric correlations. Our findings show high degrees of shared variance between certain pairs of musical and visual elements observed in the sample music videos. We interpret a number of these relationships in terms of their relevance to a performer’s perceived ethnicity and gender, showing how certain audiovisual features regularly accompany white men (e.g., electric guitar) while others regularly accompany women and performers of color (e.g. drum machines).

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“…Additionally there has been shifts over time in the lyrical composition of popular music over time, with negative words becoming more common and positive words becoming less common Brand et al (2019). Consumers are also sensitive to the gender of artists, as charting behavior is different for male and female artists Lafrance et al (2011). Finally, it is essential to examine how the construction of categories themselves constrains the choices consumers face.…”

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Hit Or Miss: What One Hit Wonders Show About The Production And Consumption Of Cultural Products

Derechin¹

2019

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We analyze One Hit Wonders on the Billboard Hot 100 from perspective of both cultural production and optimal differentiation to try and understand how One Hit Wonders emerge. One Hit Wonders as a category do not cleanly fit into either the cultural production or optimal differentiation framework, and as in intermediate case illustrates the interplay between both consumer taste and institutional power in markets for cultural products.

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Race, gender, and theBillboardTop 40 charts between 1997 and 2007

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Five decades of US, UK, German and Dutch music charts show that cultural processes are accelerating

Five decades of US, UK, German and Dutch music charts show that cultural processes are accelerating

Content and Correlational Analysis of a Corpus of MTV-Promoted Music Videos Aired Between 1990 and 1999

Hit Or Miss: What One Hit Wonders Show About The Production And Consumption Of Cultural Products

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