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How Songs Get Popular

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the why-stuff-sucks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers created an artificial music market of 14,341 participants split into two groups to pick music from unknown musicians. In one group, the individuals had only song titles and band names to go on. The individuals in the other group saw how others had rated the songs. Turns out popularity bred popularity, which explains why there's so much crap on the radio."

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  1. Re:"-1 troll" utterance gets +5 Insightful by BlueHands · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It drives me nut to see that, because i am certain that many people do it merely to increase the chance of being modded up. Hence why I have the following sig:

    I mod everyone down who says "I'll get modded down for this." I hate to disappoint.

    The only thing that drive me more nuts is when a post is so good I just CAN'T bring myself to mod them down.

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    I mod everyone down who says "I'll get modded down for this." I hate to disappoint.
  2. Re:"-1 troll" utterance gets +5 Insightful by shoolz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This will probably get moderated as troll but... save as.