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ON-CHART SUCCESS DYNAMICS OF POPULAR SONGS
Advances in Complex Systems ( IF 0.7 ) Pub Date : 2018-06-19 , DOI: 10.1142/s021952591850008x
SEUNGKYU SHIN 1 , JUYONG PARK 1, 2
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In the modern era where highly-commodified cultural products compete heavily for mass consumption, finding the principles behind the complex process of how successful, “hit” products emerge remains a vital scientific goal that requires an interdisciplinary approach. Here, we present a framework for tracing the cycle of prosperity-and-decline of a product to find insights into influential and potent factors that determine its success. As a rapid, high-throughput indicator of the preference of the public, popularity charts have emerged as a useful information source for finding the market performance patterns of products over time, which we call the on-chart life trajectories that show how the products enter the chart, fare inside it, and eventually exit from it. We propose quantitative parameters to characterize a life trajectory, and analyze a large-scale data set of nearly 7,000 songs from Gaon Chart, a major weekly Korean Pop (K-Pop) chart that covers a span of six years. We find that a significant role is played by nonmusical extrinsic factors such as the established fan base of the artist and the might of production companies in the on-chart success of songs, strongly indicative of the commodified nature of modern cultural products. We also review a possible mathematical model of this phenomenon, and discuss several nontrivial yet intriguing trajectories that we call the “Late Bloomers” and the “Re-entrants” that appear to be strongly driven by serendipitous exposure on mass media and the changes of seasons.

中文翻译:

流行歌曲的成功动态

在高度商品化的文化产品为大众消费而激烈竞争的现代时代,寻找成功、“热门”产品出现的复杂过程背后的原理仍然是一个重要的科学目标,需要跨学科的方法。在这里,我们提出了一个框架,用于追踪产品的繁荣和衰退周期,以深入了解决定其成功的有影响力和有力的因素。作为公众偏好的快速、高通量指标,人气图表已成为一种有用的信息来源,可用于发现产品随时间推移的市场表现模式,我们称之为显示产品如何进入的图表生命轨迹图表,在其中票价,并最终退出。我们提出定量参数来描述生命轨迹,并分析来自 Gaon Chart 的近 7,000 首歌曲的大规模数据集,这是一个涵盖六年的主要韩国流行 (K-Pop) 每周排行榜。我们发现,非音乐外在因素(如艺术家的粉丝基础和制作公司的实力)在歌曲的成功上发挥了重要作用,这有力地表明了现代文化产品的商品化性质。我们还回顾了这种现象的一个可能的数学模型,并讨论了一些我们称之为“大器晚成”和“重入者”的非平凡但有趣的轨迹,这些轨迹似乎受到大众媒体的偶然曝光和季节变化的强烈驱动. 我们发现,非音乐外在因素(如艺术家的粉丝基础和制作公司的实力)在歌曲的成功上发挥了重要作用,这有力地表明了现代文化产品的商品化性质。我们还回顾了这种现象的一个可能的数学模型,并讨论了一些我们称之为“大器晚成”和“重入者”的非平凡但有趣的轨迹,这些轨迹似乎受到大众媒体的偶然曝光和季节变化的强烈驱动. 我们发现,非音乐外在因素(如艺术家的粉丝基础和制作公司的实力)在歌曲的成功上发挥了重要作用,这有力地表明了现代文化产品的商品化性质。我们还回顾了这种现象的一个可能的数学模型,并讨论了一些我们称之为“大器晚成”和“重入者”的非平凡但有趣的轨迹,这些轨迹似乎受到大众媒体的偶然曝光和季节变化的强烈驱动.
更新日期:2018-06-19
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