What Countries Listen to: Analyzing the Network of Music Genres around the World

Authors

  • Maria Luiza Botelho Mondelli Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC)
  • Luiz M. R. Gadelha Jr Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC)
  • Artur Ziviani Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5753/isys.2019.597

Keywords:

Complex networks, Network science, Music popularity

Abstract

Music streaming platforms are increasingly popular, facilitating the access to music content. This effect extends the reach of different musical styles, increasing the diversity of listened music genres in different countries around the world. In order to better understand this diversity, in this paper we build and analyze a complex network of artists, music genres, and countries using data from Spotify. As a result, in addition to identifying communities of countries with similar music genres, we show how the diversity of music genres can influence the modeling and analysis of the considered network. We also classify the most commonly listened genres using centrality metrics and we analyze how the diffusion of genres occurs over time, including a case study with a viral music.

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Published

2019-09-18

How to Cite

Mondelli, M. L. B., Gadelha Jr, L. M. R., & Ziviani, A. (2019). What Countries Listen to: Analyzing the Network of Music Genres around the World. ISys - Brazilian Journal of Information Systems, 12(3), 53–72. https://doi.org/10.5753/isys.2019.597

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