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Post by secondaryditto »

rsynnott wrote: post #147
jariel wrote: post #69

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Yes but: 1) Chart toppers from previous eras are still listenable. Almost nothing on the charts today will be listenable in 2 years. Out-of-touch grandparents in the 1960s could have been convinced to listen to the Beatles. Nobody of a certain age will put up with Top 40 today. 2) It's not quite as democratic as you'd imagine. There are promotions, placements, trends, people sucking kids into clicks in big herds. A m…

> Chart toppers from previous eras are still listenable. Almost nothing on the charts today will be listenable in 2 years. Out-of-touch grandparents in the 1960s could have been convinced to listen to the Beatles. Nobody of a certain age will put up with Top 40 today. That feels like being quite selective. The Beatles were not the only band existing in the 60s, and a lot of stuff that did top the charts in the 60s wa…

And... the Beatles were relatively unique in that they had a moderately wide range of style, certainly compared to their most of their contemporaries. Yes, grandparents in the 60s probably would have put up with Yesterday, Michelle, Till There Was You, A Taste of Honey and similar 'ballad/acoustic/soft' songs. They would not have put up with or enjoyed Long Tally Sally or Twist and Shout.

Source: Mother-in-law who was a young parent outside Liverpool in the mid 60s, relaying the reactions of her parents' generation to the Beatles and "beat/rock" music of the 60s.

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Post by richrichardsson »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #155
Polylactic_acid wrote: post #97

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Facts are not copyrightable, collections of facts are, thats why you cant copy google maps but you can go outside and write down the same data from your own observations. They have to be significant enough to be covered by copyright. A top 40 is maybe copyrighted.

Collections of facts are also not copyrightable. What's copyrightable is the editorial decision to include or exclude -- or, potentially, arrange -- some facts. This is why phone books weren't copyrightable - there is no creativity involved in choosing what's included ("everything") or the order in which entries appear ("alphabetical"). "Every charting hit" is also a comprehensive list involving no creativity. Order…

Some phone directories were said to include made up names and numbers that could be used to copyright phone directories. i.e. Company A provides a phone directory with a smattering of nonsense data contained within, Company B copies that wholesale which gives Company A ammunition in a copyright case as they point to the nonsense data and ask Company B to explain why they are included (which they obviously can't without saying, "We copied your directory"). This may just be urban lore.

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satvikpendem wrote: post #157
ajuc wrote: post #145

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I heard this being refered to as the Muhammad Effect. Tabloids love to write articles about most popular name for newborn kids in each country. And in countries with non-negligible Muslim minorities that name is often Muhammad (or some variation of it), because Muslims names have higher peak. So there might be 50 times as much kids with non-Muslim names, but they have roughly even spread between names and don't show…

Similarly, in the Western world, the most popular name seems to be some form of John.

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

holografix wrote: post #13

I think if I look at this any longer I might slip, fall down and break a hip! Embarrassing how old I am when pretty much ALL of these songs sound like absolute trash to me. Repetitive auto-tuned, formulaic, mysoginistic, materialistic, mundane, simple-minded steam pile of fermenting dog poo.

Yeah, I thought Spotify played music? Whatever the most-popular NA track is right now, it's definitely not music.

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

sacred_numbers wrote: post #105

Something to keep in mind: the top track in the world right now is ROCKSTAR, with about 5 million streams per day. The song lasts about 3 minutes, which means the song was streamed for 250k hours around the world. Spotify streams an average of 234 million hours per day, though, which means the number one song represents about 0.1% of the total. We have an unprecedented level of access to all sorts of different genres…

The rise of the internet in the 90's gave us "long tail" access to increasingly personal choices, and people thought it was great. Now, it's ALL long tail.

I'm finding that even major movie studios have a hard time generating buzz and leveraging their assets to get a prominent spot in media. There are a lot of movies with A-list actors that are falling completely under the radar on release, only to show up on Netflix months later. It takes everything a studio or record label can do to push a release into the mainstream consciousness now, because we all have so many different ways we're ingesting culture now.

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Post by bsuh »

sacred_numbers wrote: post #105

Something to keep in mind: the top track in the world right now is ROCKSTAR, with about 5 million streams per day. The song lasts about 3 minutes, which means the song was streamed for 250k hours around the world. Spotify streams an average of 234 million hours per day, though, which means the number one song represents about 0.1% of the total. We have an unprecedented level of access to all sorts of different genres…

Interesting points, but I don't think the conclusion follows.

In your example, if the number one song is classical and made up 0.1% of listening time, would you conclude that classical music is not popular?

It's like saying water isn't a popular drink because only 0.1% of people buy water in the form of 20 fl oz Dasani bottles.

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holografix wrote: post #13

I think if I look at this any longer I might slip, fall down and break a hip! Embarrassing how old I am when pretty much ALL of these songs sound like absolute trash to me. Repetitive auto-tuned, formulaic, mysoginistic, materialistic, mundane, simple-minded steam pile of fermenting dog poo.

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