Music by numbers : the use and abuse of statistics in the music industry /: the use and abuse of statistics in the music industry. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Richard Osborne, Dave Laing.
• Editors: Osborne, Richard, 1967-; Laing, Dave
• Contents: Richard Osborne, ‘Introduction’ PART ONE: Winners and Losers Richard Osborne, ‘At the Sign of the Swingin’ Symbol: The Manipulation of the UK Singles Chart’ Richard Osborne, ‘The Gold Disc: One Million Pop Fans Can’t Be Wrong’ Richard Osborne, ‘“I Am a One in Ten”: Success Ratios in the Recording Industry’ PART TWO: Policy David Arditi, ‘The Global Music Report: Selling a Narrative of Decline’ Shain Shapiro, ‘Popular Music Funding in Canada’ PART THREE: Live Music Adam Behr, Matt Brennan, Martin Cloonan and Emma Webster, ‘Stop Making Census! Some Experiential Reflections on Conducting a Live Music Census’ Dave Laing, ‘What’s It Worth? Calculating the Economic Value of Live Music’ Richard Osborne, ‘Live Music vs. Recorded Music’ PART FOUR: Piracy Lucas Logan, ‘Selling the Numbers on Music Piracy to Burn Down the Digital Library’ Lola Costa Galvez, ‘Educar para crear : The Use of Statistics and Surveys in Spanish Music Anti-piracy Policies’ Vanessa Bastian and Dennis Collopy, ‘Measuring the Unmeasurable’ PART FIVE: Digital Solutions Mike Jones, ‘One Penny from Brazil: Music Publishing Revived but Untransformed’ Marcus O’Dair (Middlesex University), ‘Tokens and Techno-Economic Paradigms: On the Value of Blockchain Technology to the Music Industries’ Craig Hamilton, ‘The Harkive Project: Computational Analysis and Popular Music Reception’
• Edition: New edition
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Intellect Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 338.4778; Music trade -- Corrupt practices; Music trade -- Statistics; Sound recording industry -- Statistics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789382556; 9781789382549
• Related ISBNs: 9781789382532
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