Everything you ever wanted to know about Lana Del Rey’s fans, but were too afraid to ask

The ways people find and collect music have changed radically over the last decade. There is considerably less emphasis on the buying and selling of physical media as these forms are replaced by purchased digital downloads and streaming services, alongside a well-established system of peer-to-peer unlicensed distribution via protocols like BitTorrent. Add to this the advent of social networks, both general and music-focused, and the result is a fundamental change in how fans interact with both music and the artists the produce it. These new forms of interaction all share a common feature -- they are digitally recorded. During this talk we’ll look these digital interaction breadcrumbs from various social (eg. facebook, soundcloud) and
peer-to-peer (BitTorrent) networks and other sources. We’ll take a look at how Musicmetric handles some of the problems associated with data collection. Then we’ll walk through what data is available (and machine-readable!) via Musicmetric’s json API and look at some example applications of these data-sources.

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1. Everything you ever wanted to know about Lana Del Rey, but were too afraid to ask B e n F i e l d s M u s i c m e t r i c @ a l s o t h i n g s b e n @ m u s i c m e t r i c . c o m
2. Everything you ever wanted to know about Lana Del Rey’s fans, but were too afraid to ask B e n F i e l d s M u s i c m e t r i c @ a l s o t h i n g s b e n @ m u s i c m e t r i c . c o m
3. Overview Motivation A Tour in Three Parts The API and Examples Low Hanging Fruit
4. motivation
5. Who is listening to whom?
6. The old way: sales and views
7. sales http://www.flickr.com/photos/winnipegfolkfestival/4208754565
8. sales http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcasey/2570454846
9. Views http://www.flickr.com/photos/edwick/2922801438/
10. Views http://www.flickr.com/photos/edbierman/3563810662/
11. The new way: online and ondemand
12. youtube
13. Vevo
14. last.fm
15. streaming
16. unlicensed
17. The new fan club
18. A Tour in Three Parts
19. Three Products Musicmetric Fantracker Last.fm Music Manager Statistics Musicmetric Pro
20. Coverage More than 700,000 artists Across more than 25 networks Named Entity Recognition (mentions) and sentiment analysis over the Web Oldest timeseries go back about 3 years
21. Musicmetric Fantracker
26. Last.fm Music Manager Statistics
29. Musicmetric Pro
39. The API and Examples
40. http://developer.musicmetric.com
42. Live Example!
45. Low Hanging Fruit
46. timeseries prediction
47. comparative Network effects
48. location-based
49. We’re Hiring! http://musicmetric.com/jobs/ Questions?