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Temporal Success Analyses in Music Collaboration Networks: Brazilian and Global Scenarios
Collaboration is a part of the music industry and has increased over recent decades; but little do we know about its effects on success and evolution. Our goal is to analyze how success has evolved over collaboration networks and compare its global scenario to a local, thriving one: the Brazilian music industry. Specifically, we build collaboration networks from data collected from Spotify's Global and Brazilian daily charts, analyze them and identify collaboration profiles in such networks. Analyses over their topological characteristics reveal collaboration patterns mapped into four different profiles: Standard, Niche, Ephemeral and Absent, where the two first have a higher level of success. Furthermore, we do deeper by evaluating the temporal evolution of such profiles through case studies: pop and k-pop globally, and pop and forró in Brazil. Overall, our findings emphasize the importance of collaboration profiles in assessing success, and show differences between the global and Brazilian scenarios
Temporal Success Analyses in Music Collaboration Networks: Brazilian and Global Scenarios
Collaboration is a part of the music industry and has increased over recent decades; but little do we know about its effects on success and evolution. Our goal is to analyze how success has evolved over collaboration networks and compare its global scenario to a local, thriving one: the Brazilian music industry. Specifically, we build collaboration networks from data collected from Spotify's Global and Brazilian daily charts, analyze them and identify collaboration profiles in such networks. Analyses over their topological characteristics reveal collaboration patterns mapped into four different profiles: Standard, Niche, Ephemeral and Absent, where the two first have a higher level of success. Furthermore, we do deeper by evaluating the temporal evolution of such profiles through case studies: pop and k-pop globally, and pop and forró in Brazil. Overall, our findings emphasize the importance of collaboration profiles in assessing success, and show differences between the global and Brazilian scenarios
The Effect of the Canada-U.S. Border on the Vancouver, BC, and Seattle, WA, Music Network
This Border Policy Brief examines the degree of connectivity between the two music scenes of Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC, which are less than 150 miles apart and share similar socio-demographic, economic, and regional characteristics. This Brief focuses on the effect of the Canada – U.S. border on the degree of connectivity between those music scenes and points out some opportunities and challenges faced by independent music artists in the early stages of their career, including Indigenous artists. The research presented here includes highlights from a broader project (see sidebar).
The vitality of the music industry in the two city-regions of Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC is the product of the cross-fertilization and growth that result from the attraction, retention, and infusion of new talent, ideas, styles, information, and investments. This music ‘ecosystem’ relies on a social and physical infrastructure, with venues of different sizes, genres, and importance, in a transnational setting that includes shared ownership of venues. The region’s audiences, patrons of the arts, institutional support, and a local and diverse talent pool contribute to thriving music scenes in both cities. Cross-border collaboration in music production, distribution, and events is also an important element to establishing touring networks, maximizing investment, and developing information networks that collaborate with other industries, such as film, television and the region’s booming tech sector
Cultural transmission modes of music sampling traditions remain stable despite delocalization in the digital age
Music sampling is a common practice among hip-hop and electronic producers
that has played a critical role in the development of particular subgenres.
Artists preferentially sample drum breaks, and previous studies have suggested
that these may be culturally transmitted. With the advent of digital sampling
technologies and social media the modes of cultural transmission may have
shifted, and music communities may have become decoupled from geography. The
aim of the current study was to determine whether drum breaks are culturally
transmitted through musical collaboration networks, and to identify the factors
driving the evolution of these networks. Using network-based diffusion analysis
we found strong evidence for the cultural transmission of drum breaks via
collaboration between artists, and identified several demographic variables
that bias transmission. Additionally, using network evolution methods we found
evidence that the structure of the collaboration network is no longer biased by
geographic proximity after the year 2000, and that gender disparity has relaxed
over the same period. Despite the delocalization of communities by the
internet, collaboration remains a key transmission mode of music sampling
traditions. The results of this study provide valuable insight into how
demographic biases shape cultural transmission in complex networks, and how the
evolution of these networks has shifted in the digital age
Music 2025 : The Music Data Dilemma: issues facing the music industry in improving data management
© Crown Copyright 2019Music 2025ʼ investigates the infrastructure issues around the management of digital data in an increasingly stream driven industry. The findings are the culmination of over 50 interviews with high profile music industry representatives across the sector and reflects key issues as well as areas of consensus and contrasting views. The findings reveal whilst there are great examples of data initiatives across the value chain, there are opportunities to improve efficiency and interoperability
Success and luck in creative careers
Luck is considered to be a crucial ingredient to achieve impact in all
creative domains, despite their diversity. For instance, in science, the movie
industry, music, and art, the occurrence of the highest impact work and of a
hot streak within a creative career are very difficult to predict. Are there
domains that are more prone to luck than others? Here, we provide new insights
on the role of randomness in impact in creative careers in two ways: (i) we
systematically untangle luck and individual ability to generate impact in the
movie, music, and book industries, and in science, and compare the luck factor
between these fields; (ii) we show the limited predictive power of
collaboration networks to predict career hits. Taken together, our analysis
suggests that luck consistently affects career impact across all considered
sectors and improves our understanding in pinpointing the key elements in the
prediction of success
Living Labs as a navigation system for innovative business models in the music industry
Media industries and other rapidly evolving, complex, uncertain markets have a hard time to survive if they do not optimize or radically change their business models. This paper analyses the potential of involving all relevant stakeholders of the value network in the development of a business model by means of a panel based multi-method Living Lab approach. Using an in-depth case study analysis, a critical analysis of both the potential value and the weaknesses of such an approach are being assessed. Although some difficulties exist, opening this innovation process and involving external actors in a structural way has the potential to increase the value creation and sustainability of the business model. This paper also stresses the importance of multidisciplinary research on multi-stakeholder involvement in business model innovation
Neo-Marshallian Nodes, Global Networks and Firm Competitiveness: The Media Cluster of Central London
The recent emphasis by some business scholars on processes taking place within locally-embedded production systems seems to undervalue the dynamics of global competition and the role played by TNCs in mobilising tangible and intangible assets across localised clusters. Using the external linkages of firms as the theoretical framework, this paper examines the interplay between global and local influences on the competitiveness of the cluster of media firms in Central London. The main findings are that the locality indeed plays a vital role in influencing the capabilities of these firms, but it is by no means the only relevant geographic area. This localised cluster is bound tightly into world-wide webs of interdependence, with TNCs playing a major role in mediating between local and global linkages. The latter are vital for the ability of the firms studied to compete successfully in international markets.
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