What Countries Listen To: Analyzing the Network of Musical Genres Around the World
Abstract
Music streaming platforms are increasingly popular, democratizing and facilitating the access to music content. This effect extends the reach and the penetration of different musical styles, increasing the diversity of listened genres in different countries around the world. In order to better understand this diversity and identify countries with common interests, in this paper we build and analyze a complex network of artists, musical genres, and countries using data from Spotify, one of the most widely used music streaming platforms today. As results, in addition to identifying communities of countries with similar musical styles, we show how the large amount and diversity of musical genres can influence the modeling and analysis of the considered network. We also classify the most commonly listened genres using different centrality metrics.
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