American Idol: should it be a singing contest or a popularity contest?

Amegashie, J. Atsu

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“…American Idol has not only produced such hugely successful entertainers as Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, and Jennifer Hudson--through gamified employee engagement during the talent search--and sold millions of albums--through gamified customer engagement leading to sales--but it has also created a highly profitable TV show by aligning the mechanics, dynamics, and emotions it developed for contestants with those developed for audience members (Amegashie, 2009;Ciulla et al, 2012;Meizel, 2011).…”

Section: Gamification At Work: the Case Of American Idolmentioning

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Is it all a game? Understanding the principles of gamification

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“…More recently, the resurgence of talent competitions has raised concerns about the possible extent of market failure due to short-termism in the management of talent and over-focusing on non-musical aspects of performers (Amegashie 2009;Zwaan and ter Bogt 2010).…”

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Past, present and future: music economics at the crossroads

Cameron

2016

J Cult Econ

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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. The others comprise one entirely new topic which is crowd-sourced funding of new music recordings. The other topics are extremely old in terms of relevance but very new in terms of there being little prior economic analysis. These are environmental damages from musical activity and the efficiency of belonging to a pop-rock musical ensemble versus being a solo artist.

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“…The economics studies that do exist on reality shows investigate the structure and rules of the contest. For example, Amegashie (2007) studied the allocation of voting rights between the expert judges and the viewers on "American Idol", designed to prevent low-ability contestants from winning. He showed that the contestants' differences in ability should be an important consideration in the allocation of voting rights.…”

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Who will be idol? The importance of social networks for winning on reality shows

Heizler

Kimhi

2012

The Journal of Socio-Economics

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*This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop a theoretical model that studies viewer behavior by presenting a framework of competition between two contestants from two different groups. The results are examined empirically using unique contestant data from the highly popular reality show "A Star Is Born", the Israeli counterpart of "American Idol". Our main finding is that social networks and belonging to minority groups play key roles in the contestant's victory, but their effects are nonlinear: the social network effect is U-shaped, whereas that of belonging to a minority group follows an inverted U shape. Beyond the world of reality TV, this paper sheds light on the general behavior of social networks as well. JEL Classification:J15, D71, P16

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American Idol: should it be a singing contest or a popularity contest?

Abstract: American Idol , Committee, Contests, Tournaments, Voting, D23, D44,

Cited by 23 publications

References 38 publications

Is it all a game? Understanding the principles of gamification

Is it all a game? Understanding the principles of gamification

Past, present and future: music economics at the crossroads

Who will be idol? The importance of social networks for winning on reality shows

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