Google Music Timeline

Despite all the grapes I feel for Google: Google visualizing music history

http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music

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Where does the data come from?

The Music Timeline is based on album and artist statistics aggregated from Google Play Music — we define popularity by how many users have an artist or album in their music library.

That's helpful. On to the next shit.

I thought it was quite handy. You can compare different careers in terms of amount of releases and their relative popularity. So there's lots of early albums with lots of popularity in the IDM world.

Comparing with the madonnas, the michael jacksons, nine inch nails, kraftwerk, pearl jam, u2...first decade of releases are most popular. And then...perhaps a couple of good albums which get appreciation of the fans. The masses often only see those first couple of albums.

Perhaps there's a google audience bias.(which was your point?) I don't know the statistics. But I thought it was interesting to notice nevertheless.

It's sad that there's no classical music section in the graph

  On 1/19/2014 at 11:11 AM, goDel said:

Despite all the grapes I feel for Google: Google visualizing music history

 

http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music

 

 

 

 

 

 

RE the aphex timeline. What is the release shown between ICBYD and RDJ album?

I've never seen that before.

Ventolin EP

oooooo thanks. Mine looks different.

  On 1/19/2014 at 3:29 PM, goDel said:

I thought it was quite handy. You can compare different careers in terms of amount of releases and their relative popularity. So there's lots of early albums with lots of popularity in the IDM world.

 

Comparing with the madonnas, the michael jacksons, nine inch nails, kraftwerk, pearl jam, u2...first decade of releases are most popular. And then...perhaps a couple of good albums which get appreciation of the fans. The masses often only see those first couple of albums.

 

Perhaps there's a google audience bias.(which was your point?) I don't know the statistics. But I thought it was interesting to notice nevertheless.

Yeah, though i see it as a vehicle for Google Play marketing only. I mean i could understand (reject) itunes/spotify statistics but who the hell uses Google Play for music and what are they represent in global sense? This is a niche numbers. In no way it is visualizing music history, that's fucked up way to deal with people's image of such thread as music history.

  On 1/19/2014 at 6:55 PM, StephenG said:

oooooo thanks. Mine looks different.

You might have the Ventolin remixes CD instead?

  On 1/19/2014 at 10:33 PM, Philip Glass said:

 

  On 1/19/2014 at 6:55 PM, StephenG said:

oooooo thanks. Mine looks different.

 

You might have the Ventolin remixes CD instead?

 

Just checked, you are correct!

  On 1/19/2014 at 5:45 PM, StephenG said:

 

  On 1/19/2014 at 11:11 AM, goDel said:

Despite all the grapes I feel for Google: Google visualizing music history

 

http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music

 

 

 

 

 

 

RE the aphex timeline. What is the release shown between ICBYD and RDJ album?

 

I've never seen that before

ban

ha!