Over the last year, AI system IBM Watson has been examining the composition of popular songs, theory, moods, emotions and how they correlate across five years of cultural data to inspire Grammy-winning music producer Alex Da Kid’s song ‘Not Easy’. The collaborative effort helped show...
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Ever wondered how the weather affects what music we listen to? Spotify partnered with leading weather provider Accuweather over a year-long study to correlate weather data with Spotify streams, effectively determining how weather affects the mood and acoustic attributes of music played in specific weather...
Read MoreBuilding a predictive feed fully-focused on music? Sure, why not. Tapping into Google’s colossal data trove and algorithms, the Play Music team is personalising your playlists. Bots are fast taking dominion over the music industry: from AI composers to chatbots for artists, all of which...
Read MoreStreaming platforms yield a vast trove of data: valuable information to push your next marketing campaign in the right direction. Musically recently published a guest column around what you can expect to discover from playlist data, but it really was Adweek’s latest article on the...
Read MorePossibly one of the coolest visualisations of data ever, The Universe Of Miles Davis tool amasses all 2,452 Wikipedia pages that mention the late and great trumpeter to illustrate the jazz pioneer’s ongoing enormous influence on decades of musicians and culture in general. Quoted in...
Read MoreIn an incredible display of visual interactivity, Polygraph’s editor and in-house data scientist Matt Daniels has used Spotify plays from 2014 to determine which songs from pop music’s past stand the test of time by measuring most-played music by users from each decade. The results...
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Data to Date: The Rapid Rise of Social and Streaming. [embed]https://www.nextbigsound.com/images/industryreport2015summer/soti__background.mp4[/embed]...
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