Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-21-2024
Abstract
This study examines market concentration's influence on popular music. The data cover popular music from weekly Billboard Hot 100 songs from 1952 to 1989, for which song characteristic data including tempo and duration is available from the Million Song Dataset (MSD). Greater market concentration of the top four artists is found to impact song length, with longer #1 songs and shorter songs in the #2 through #10 spots on the Billboard charts. However, tests for alterations in song construction by top artists that might indicate a form of “sell-out” behavior do not reveal evidence of it.
This article was published Open Access through the CCU Libraries Transformative Agreement Program. The article was first published in the journal Contemporary Economic Policy: https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12649
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Recommended Citation
Weinbach, A., Njoroge, P.K., Salvino, R. & Woodside, A. (2024). Strategic behavior, artistic integrity, and tradeoffs in popular music. Contemporary Economic Policy, 42(3), 483–497. https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12649. Available at https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/finance-economics/5/