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The Three Types of Hits on Spotify
Our last post examined how the usage patterns of contemporary music on Spotify look at lot more like record store sales than radio spin counts: Songs are most likely to achieve their biggest number of streams the week the song is released. However, not every song follows this pattern. Today, we take a deeper look … Continue reading The Three Types of Hits on Spotify
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Is Spotify replacing Record Stores or Radio Stations?
This post is the second in the series “What Radio Can Learn From Spotify.” Now that Spotify lets us see which songs listeners are playing for themselves, many who examine Spotify’s usage have expressed concern that radio is too late to the party on too many new hit songs. Anecdotal examples are easy to find … Continue reading Is Spotify replacing Record Stores or Radio Stations?
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