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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦

@sobchuk.bsky.social

I use big data to research the cultural evolution of arts @ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology More: www.sobch.uk/

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OSsobchuk.bsky.socialMay 17, 2024 1:31pm

Our new paper w/ @masonyoungblood.bsky.social @oliviermorin.bsky.social epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Abstract of the paper "First-mover advantage in music": Why do some songs and musicians become successful while others do not? We show that one of the reasons may be the “first-mover advantage”: artists that stand at the foundation of new music genres tend to be more successful than those who join these genres later on. To test this hypothesis, we have analyzed a massive dataset of over 920,000 songs, including 110 music genres: 10 chosen intentionally and preregistered, and 100 chosen randomly. For this, we collected the data from two music services: Spotify, which provides detailed information about songs’ success (the precise number of times each song was listened to), and Every Noise at Once, which provides detailed genre tags for musicians. 91 genres, out of 110, show the first-mover advantage—clearly suggesting that it is an important mechanism in music success and evolution.

OSsobchuk.bsky.socialMay 17, 2024 1:32pm

Take "emo rap" as an example. It's a new genre that rose to prominence in the 2010s, with depressive superstars Lil Peep ⬇️, XXXTenacion, and Juice WRLD as its central figures. Could it be that the fame of emo-rappers is related to time they joined this genre? /2

Lil Peep, photo from: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lil-peep-cause-of-death-revealed-202399/

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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦

@sobchuk.bsky.social

I use big data to research the cultural evolution of arts @ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology More: www.sobch.uk/

777 followers592 following429 posts