Artist Popularity: Do Web and Social Music Services Agree? Alejandro Bellogín, Arjen P. de Vries, Jiyin He Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands @abellogin Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain varyatanil {a.bellogin, arjen.de.vries, j.he}@cwi.nl Practical implications No two indices are completely equivalent: we can Popularity indices use them to promote diversified recommendations Service-dependent Artist’s Web-based name Service-based indices change at a much lower speed The Web index is highly dynamic 1 clicks 2 4 Limitations 3 cleaned webpages No constraint on regions, but concerts and culture are playcounts familiarity popularity webpages local events, important within a specific community Positive vs negative popularity: exploit the context (where an artist is mentioned) in the Web index Check the source code and dataset at: Dataset Open questions http://www.cwi.nl/~media/papers/ICWSM13 1,312 artists Are users more interested in currently popular artists Timestamped popularity indices (~ every 3 hours) or they prefer those that are always popular? Jan 21 – Mar 21 Should all the reasons why an artist could be popular including the Grammy awards and The Oscars considered equally important? Temporal dynamics C Stability of popularity rankings A B A. Removed from stage at Obama’s reelection. B. Announcement of new album’s title. C. 3 Grammy awards received Tag clouds Correlations rhythm and blues Rock and Roll heavy metal post−g runge electropop rapcore Lady Gaga Nu−metal black eyed peas legend e e rock v emo female vocalists The Killers xy blues rock e hard rock s dance r&b soul Progressi ve dancehall alternative rock glam Progressi 80s political electronica cross over favorites british female alternative funk english blues punk metal Rihanna Spearman Queen Muse rapglam rock 60s USA punk rock UK indie rock rock gaga hip hop popHip−Hop electronic 90s american Nu Metal poprock indiehiphop Grunge70s green day 00s rnb urban reggae foo fighters Akon classic rock britpop alte rnati ve metal female vocalist dance−pop pop punkLinkin Park singer−songw riter the rolling stones male vocalists System of a D own experimental Kendall EchoNest post−punk Progressi ve indie pop singer−songw riter nia post−grunge electronica r arctic mon keys o male vocalists f female vocalist Pop−punk Cali alternative metal gaga Ranking-based comparison skate punk electronic Lady Gaga metal brit rock Awesome soad pop punk femalevocalistsUK indie rock USA er v o alternative rock Nu−metal pop rock sexy Top-5 popular a cross british 90s v di Muse dance 00s pop artists throughout Grunge emo hardcore vy metal vy link−182 a rock The KillersThe b electropop he the timespan of glam alternative Nu Metal hard rock green day britpop punk favorites our dataset indie Ga rage Rock Blink 182 Linkin Park political punk rock rapcore Progressi ve rock american english System of a Downfoo fighters experimental new wave Post−punk r evival Last.fm easy listening hip hop electronicsexy Avicii vocal jazz Dirty South Change in Jaccard similarity ty rnbrap r&b barbadian r Rihanna american dj crooner pa reggae when more artists are rock swing hiphop oldies swedish ald club considered r dance ellafitzge BigBand Hip−Hop housetech G−funk deep house west coast french USA trance female 50s ocal gangsta California Houseflorida v electro legend techno soul barbados electronica Flo Rida lounge pop David Guetta jazz dubstep jazz blues Snoop Dogg dancehall frank sinatra vocal00s malevocalists female vocalists Spotify 7th International AAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2013) Boston, USA, 8-10 July 2013 .