Yu et al., "Unique in What Sense? Heterogeneous Relationships between Multiple Types of Uniqueness and Popularity in Music" (2023)

2023-06-02 → 2026-08-14

Yulin Yu, Pui Yin Cheung, Yong-Yeol Ahn, and Paramveer Dhillon, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 17(1), 914–925 (2023)
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@inproceedings{yu2023unique,
    author = {Yulin Yu and Pui Yin Cheung and Yong-Yeol Ahn and Paramveer Dhillon},
    title = {Unique in What Sense? Heterogeneous Relationships between Multiple Types of Uniqueness and Popularity in Music},
    booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)}},
    volume = {17},
    number = {1},
    pages = {914--925},
    address = {Limassol, Cyprus},
    month = {6},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    eprint = {2207.12943},
    primaryClass = {cs.CY},
    doi = {10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22199},
    year = {2023},
}

Separates song uniqueness into lyrical, chord-progression, and audio dimensions and models their relationships with popularity across more than fifty thousand songs. Each form of uniqueness is negatively associated with popularity, challenging a simple balance between novelty and familiarity.

Music, Novelty

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