Chris A Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 (edited) https://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/# Edited January 12, 2015 by Chris A 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 It only starts from 1950? Typical baby boomer outlook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paducah Home Theater Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 That tapering of the dark green labeled "rock" saddens me. It's true though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang guy Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 I wonder what the data is concerning the revenue generated by the different genre. I would speculate that pop and hiphop/rap are the most downloaded and shared without royalties. That followed by Alternative then rock. The rest are more adult listening, and though there is less of it, the people who listen might be more likely to pay. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvu80 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 That is the most incredible chart I have ever seen! I wonder what program created that! Did you guys click on it all the back to artists' popularity? Wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derrickdj1 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 (edited) I wonder what the data is concerning the revenue generated by the different genre. I would speculate that pop and hiphop/rap are the most downloaded and shared without royalties. That followed by Alternative then rock. The rest are more adult listening, and though there is less of it, the people who listen might be more likely to pay. Great observation. Adults want good copies of their music and have disposable income to spend money on their choices more than the younger crowd. Edited January 13, 2015 by derrickdj1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 (edited) https://music-timeline.appspot.com/about.html About Music Timeline What is the Music Timeline? The Music Timeline shows genres of music waxing and waning, based on how many Google Play Music users have an artist or album in their music library, and other data (such as album release dates). Each stripe on the graph represents a genre; the thickness of the stripe tells you roughly the popularity of music released in a given year in that genre. (For example, the "jazz" stripe is thick in the 1950s since many users' libraries contain jazz albums released in the '50s.) Click on the stripes to zoom into more specialized genres. 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. What do the colors mean? Colors are used to visually separate genres and group sub-genres, but have no other meaning. Is this data normalized? Yes. There's lots of data about recent music, but the information about older music is more sparse; shown directly, even major changes in the '60s are dwarfed by tiny twitches in the '90s. Additionally, there's simply more music published now! To keep the visualization legible, the overview data is normalized by the total number of albums from that year — this way, you can see and understand the timeline across all the decades. Why does the timeline start in 1950? The data from earlier than 1950 is too sparse to visualize in this way. Where is the classical music? People usually think of classical music in terms of its composition date, not its recording date — should a particular concerto recording be dated when Mozart wrote it in 1791, or when the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed it in 2009? Because of this difference, placing classical music on the timeline the same way as contemporary music looks counterintuitive, so it is omitted from this visualization. Some albums are missing cover art! Yes, we don't have album art to show for all artists and albums. Sorry! Why do some albums appear more than once? Many albums are released in slightly different versions for different countries. They might have translated titles, new art, bonus tracks, or even a different track list altogether! This makes it tricky to say precisely what defines a release, so some of these similar albums may appear separately. What did you use to build this? The visualization uses the D3 library and Closure Tools. The music timeline is a project of the Big Picture and Music Intelligence research groups at Google. Contact us at hello-big-picture@google.com. Edited January 13, 2015 by Chris A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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