Artist Popularity: Do Web and Social Music Services Agree? Alejandro Bellogín, Arjen P. de Vries, Jiyin He

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

{a.bellogin, arjen.de.vries, j.he}@cwi.nl

7th International AAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2013)

Boston, USA, 8-10 July 2013

Practical implications

No two indices are completely equivalent: we can

use them to promote diversified recommendations

Service-based indices change at a much lower speed

The Web index is highly dynamic

Limitations

No constraint on regions, but concerts and culture are

local events, important within a specific community

Positive vs negative popularity: exploit the context

(where an artist is mentioned) in the Web index

Open questions

Are users more interested in currently popular artists

or they prefer those that are always popular?

Should all the reasons why an artist could be popular

considered equally important?

Tag clouds

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pop

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indie

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metal rap

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male vocalists

r&b

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Lady Gagarapcore

LinkinPark

britpop

Queen

soul

black eyed peas

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green day

The Killers

electropop

funk

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System of a D own

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techno

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jazz

vocal

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americanRihanna

electronica

G−funk

malevocalists

swedish

electro

Flo Ridasoul

french

r&b

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femaletrance

dj

hiphop

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frank sinatra

reggae

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gangsta

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crooner

dancehall

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California

deep house

dubstep

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Last.fm

Spotify

playcounts familiarity popularity

Artist’s

name

clicks

webpages

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cleaned

webpages

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Popularity indices

Service-dependent Web-based

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Temporal dynamics

A. Removed from stage at Obama’s reelection. B. Announcement of new album’s title. C. 3 Grammy awards received

Stability of popularity rankings

Ranking-based comparison

Correlations

Kendall

Spearman

Check the source code and dataset at:

http://www.cwi.nl/~media/papers/ICWSM13

Dataset

1,312 artists

Timestamped popularity indices (~ every 3 hours)

Jan 21 – Mar 21

including the Grammy awards and The Oscars

Change in Jaccard similarity

when more artists are

considered

Top-5 popular

artists throughout

the timespan of

our dataset

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