We’ve been following the bizarre dance of the unlimited iPhone data plan for years, because for music fans, they are like gold. An unlimited data plan means you can stream all the music you want, without a WiFi connection, and without worrying about losing your mobile access to email and the web for the rest…
We’ve been following the progress of Earbits, because it’s such an outlier in the internet radio arena. Witness how it experimented with charging bands rather than listeners. Now, the company has a new idea: paying artists in data and promotion, through a new kind of currency based on fans taking certain actions rather than paying. It…
Facebook knows when you are in a relationship, when it’s complicated, and when you break up. It also knows what music you’re listening to, across lots of different apps, because Facebook is the internet’s new mega-scrobbler – a feature it calls “Facebook listen.” So, as of Valentine’s Day, which are the lovey-dovey-est jams — the ones people…
We stopped by Next Big Sound’s New York office for a chat with its data scientist Victor Hu, formerly a mathematician for the U.S. Department of Defense and “stats whiz” for the New York Yankees, to see how the company gauges music popularity for clients including Billboard, which relies on Next Big Sound for one of its…
There are many ways to skin the music recommendation cat, so to speak. Record label EMI and Data Science London hope they have stumbled on to a new one: data sliced -and diced from interviews with one million music fans. The team behind the EMI Million Interview Dataset will release the self-reported musical taste of…
