Off the Charts: The Implications of Incorporating Streaming Data into the Charts

Collins, Steve; O’Grady, Pat

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-58290-4_10

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“…When Billboard began incorporating streaming into its chart calculations in 2014, it became advantageous for artists to add tracks to an album since more tracks enable more total streams-with 1,500 on-demand streams equivalent to one album-which in turn helps the album to move up the charts. 22 As a marketing manager for Atlantic Records put it, "[s]tacking albums with extra songs is a strategic way to achieve certain goals." 23 Perhaps an even more significant trend in the optimization of the album is its replacement.…”

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Engineering culture: logics of optimization in music, games, and apps

Morris

Prey

Nieborg

2021

Review of Communication

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This article investigates the ways content producers, marketers, and other promotional stakeholders work to optimize cultural goods and services for platform-dependent production, distribution, and monetization. We are particularly interested in how content creators find novel ways to work within, around, and even against platform politics and policies by manipulating algorithms, business models, and guidelines, or otherwise readying their content for optimal circulation on multiple platforms. Through comparative cases of music, games, and apps that draw on trade press and industry discourse, institutional and financial analysis, and select interviews with musicians, we consider various forms of, and strategies for, what we call cultural optimization. We draw on these instances to better understand the similarities and differences in the optimization of cultural content and metadata for economic or cultural gains. We hope our comparative approach reveals different conceptions of the term optimization, and that this term-in all its digital, financial, and cybernetic connotations-might prompt new ways of thinking about the interactions between content, (meta)data, platforms, and culture that have long shaped the circulation of cultural goods.

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Section: Logics Of Optimizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engineering culture: logics of optimization in music, games, and apps

Morris

Prey

Nieborg

2021

Review of Communication

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Talententdeckung und -förderung im Zeitalter von Big Data

Müller

2019

Jahrbuch Für Musikwirtschafts- Und Musikkulturforschung

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Performing Numbers

Prey¹

2020

The Performance Complex

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This chapter explores the implications of performance metrics as a source of self-knowledge and self-presentation. It does so through the figure of the contemporary musician. As performers on-stage and online, musicians are constantly assessed and evaluated by industry actors, peers, music fans, and themselves. The impact of powerful modes of quantification on personal experiences, understandings, and practices of artistic creation provides insight into the wider role that metrics play in shaping how we see ourselves and others; and how we present ourselves to others. Through in-depth interviews with emerging musicians, this chapter thus uses the artist as a lens through which to understand everyday life within the “performance complex.”

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Off the Charts: The Implications of Incorporating Streaming Data into the Charts

Cited by 3 publications

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Engineering culture: logics of optimization in music, games, and apps

Engineering culture: logics of optimization in music, games, and apps

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