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Changing Their Tune: How Consumers’ Adoption of Online Streaming Affects Music Consumption and Discovery Open
Instead of purchasing individual content, streaming adopters rent access to libraries from which they can consume content at no additional cost. In this paper, we study how the adoption of music streaming affects listening behavior. Using …
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Reluctant entrepreneurs: musicians and entrepreneurship in the ‘new’ music industry Open
Changing labour conditions in the creative industries – with celebrations of autonomy and entrepreneurialism intertwined with increasing job insecurity, portfolio careers and short‐term, project‐based contracts – are often interpreted as h…
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‘Let's keep music special. F—Spotify’: on-demand streaming and the controversy over artist royalties Open
On-demand streaming music services have expanded significantly in recent years. Services such as Spotify and Deezer are widely expected to become the dominant means of mass music consumption in the future and have been significant factors …
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Why go to pop concerts? The motivations behind live music attendance Open
Recent technological innovations have facilitated widespread illegal downloading of recorded music. While this points towards a decreased willingness to pay for music, the increase in the popularity of live music suggests otherwise. This i…
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Is music streaming bad for musicians? Problems of evidence and argument Open
Great controversy has surrounded the growth of the music streaming services that are now central to the music industries internationally. One important set of criticisms concerns the amount of money that music creators receive for the reco…
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Digital music consumption on the Internet: Evidence from clickstream data Open
We use clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,500 European consumers to analyze the relationship between different online music consumption channels. In particular, we revisit the question of sales displacement in the digital era, and…
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Decomposed: a political ecology of music Open
This article is about what recordings are made of, and about what happens to those recordings when they are disposed of. It inscribes a history of recorded music in three main materials: shellac, plastic and data. These materials constitut…
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Platform pop: disentangling Spotify’s intermediary role in the music industry Open
It has been widely recognized that platforms utilize their editorial capacity to transform the industries they intermediate. In this paper, we examine the intermediary role of the leading audio streaming platform – Spotify – on the recorde…
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African American music : an introduction Open
Designed for an introductory course in African American music, this title focuses on musical genres & styles, moving chronologically from folk traditions to modern forms. A final section discusses the aesthetics of African American culture…
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Music Aggregators and Intermediation of the Digital Music Market Open
This article demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, the advent of the Internet has not made intermediaries in the music market obsolete. Individual artists and independent record labels who want to sell their music in digital music…
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The Dynamic Interplay between Recorded Music and Live Concerts: The Role of Piracy, Unbundling, and Artist Characteristics Open
The business model for musicians relies on selling recorded music and selling concert tickets. Traditionally, demand for one format (e.g., concerts) would stimulate demand for the other format (e.g., recorded music) and vice versa, leading…
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Global and country-specific mainstreaminess measures: Definitions, analysis, and usage for improving personalized music recommendation systems Open
Third, we demonstrate the applicability of our study results to improve music recommendation systems. To this end, we conduct rating prediction experiments in which we tailor recommendations to a user's level of preference for the music ma…
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Video Killed the Radio Star? Online Music Videos and Recorded Music Sales Open
We study the heterogeneous effects of online video platforms on the sales volume and sales distribution of recorded music. Identification comes from two natural experiments in Germany. In 2009, virtually all music videos were blocked from …
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Dealing with digital: the economic organisation of streamed music Open
The intervention of digital service providers (DSPs) or platforms, such as Spotify Apple Music and Tidal, that supply streamed music has fundamentally altered the operation of copyright management organisations (CMOs) and the way song-writ…
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The Digital Transformation of the Korean Music Industry and the Global Emergence of K-Pop Open
There are a number of voices who blame digitization for having a number of negative effects on the music industry including a decline in album sales, copyright infringement, unfair royalty payments, and competition with foreign multination…
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Exploring the Role of Deep Learning Technology in the Sustainable Development of the Music Production Industry Open
This study explores the role of deep learning technology in the sustainable development of the music production industry. This article surveys the opinions of Taiwanese music creation professionals and uses partial least squares (PLS) regr…
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Spotify and the democratisation of music Open
The corporate rhetoric of streaming platforms often assumes a tight link between their scale-making ambitions on the one hand and the creative interests of musicians on the other. In practice, most musicians recognise that claims of musica…
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The editorial playlist as container technology: on Spotify and the logistical role of digital music packages Open
This article explores the role of editorial playlists in Spotify’s streaming economy. In particular, it approaches Spotify’s playlists as container technologies – i.e. technical solutions that assemble, preserve, and transport music object…
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Where Does the Buck Stop? Ethical and Political Issues with AI in Music Creation Open
AI applications for music creation have been available since the last century but, until recently, their adoption has been limited to a small niche of researchers and engineers and their ontology limited to experimentation in computational…
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Do People Value Recorded Music? Open
How much do the majority of people value music, and can or should that level of value be reflected in music’s economic value? The dramatic decline in the economic value of recorded popular music in the 21st century has prompted much debate…
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Spotify: Aplikasi Music Streaming untuk Generasi Milenial Open
The large population in Indonesia has become a huge market for many products, including streaming music-based technology products, to reach the target audience of young people. One of the applications that is becoming a trend at the moment…
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Platforms, Promotion, and Product Discovery: Evidence from Spotify Playlists Open
Digitization has vastly increased the amount of new music produced and, because of streaming, has raised the number of songs available directly to consumers. While enhanced availability has levelled the playing eld between already-prominen…
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Music streaming platforms and self-releasing musicians: the case of China Open
A major development in the music industries in recent years has been the rise of 'unsigned' or 'self-releasing' musicians (sometimes problematically called 'DIY musicians' or 'independent musicians') who upload music directly to music stre…
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The working life of musicians: mapping the work activities and values of early-career pop musicians in the Dutch music industry Open
This paper explores the working life of early-career musicians after technological innovations transformed the music industry. Based on in-depth interviews, a diary questionnaire study and post-questionnaire interviews with 17 early-career…
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If the Song has No Price, is it Still a Commodity? : Rethinking the Commodification of Digital Music Open
In music streaming services like Spotify, discrete pieces of music no longer has a price, as has traditionally been the case in music retailing, both analog and digital. This article discusses the theoretical and practical implications of …
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On the Development and Practice of AI Technology for Contemporary Popular Music Production Open
Although the use of AI technology for music production is still in its infancy, it has the potential to make a lasting impact on the way we produce music. In this paper we focus on the design and use of AI music tools for the production of…
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Blockchain Or The Chaingang? Challenges, Opportunities And Hype: The Music Industry And Blockchain Technologies Open
Blockchain is essentially a set of protocols previously known as a “distributed ledger” system. An Economist article published in March 2016, describes it well: Blockchain is… a database that is maintained not by a single actor, such as a …
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Past, present and future: music economics at the crossroads Open
This paper contextualises research on the economics of music. The papers considered represent a crossroad in economics music research. One branch is the most heavily explored area of the impact of digital technology on consumption of music…
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The next normal: Chinese indie music in a post-COVID China Open
This article will discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the Chinese independent music scene, based on live interviews with musicians, venue owners, labels and others in the Chinese music industry. We begin by looking at the immediate impact of…
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From record selling to cultural entrepreneurship: the music economy in the digital paradigm shift Open
The entire music economy was revolutionized in the digital paradigm shift. It was not just a disruption caused by technological change, but a much broader cultural revolution that fundamentally reshaped the network of music production, dis…