Strategic behavior, artistic integrity, and tradeoffs in popular music

IF 1.7 4区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Contemporary Economic Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-21 DOI:10.1111/coep.12649

Andrew Weinbach, Phillip Kamau Njoroge, Robert Salvino, Arch Woodside

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Abstract

This study examines market concentration's influence on popular music. The data cover popular music from weekly Billboard Hot 100 songs from 1952 to 1989, for which song characteristic data including tempo and duration is available from the Million Song Dataset (MSD). Greater market concentration of the top four artists is found to impact song length, with longer #1 songs and shorter songs in the #2 through #10 spots on the Billboard charts. However, tests for alterations in song construction by top artists that might indicate a form of “sell-out” behavior do not reveal evidence of it.

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流行音乐中的战略行为、艺术完整性和取舍

本研究探讨了市场集中度对流行音乐的影响。数据涵盖了 1952 年至 1989 年期间每周公告牌热门 100 歌曲中的流行音乐，百万歌曲数据集 (Million Song Dataset, MSD) 提供了这些歌曲的特征数据，包括节奏和持续时间。研究发现，前四位歌手的市场集中度越高，对歌曲长度的影响越大，在公告牌排行榜上，排名第一的歌曲长度越长，排名第二至第十的歌曲长度越短。然而，对顶级艺术家改变歌曲结构以显示某种形式的 "卖座 "行为的测试并未发现相关证据。

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