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Big Data Helps Music Industry Predict Next Big Thing

"If you walk down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan at night around the holidays, you are there to see the high-end stores\u2019 window displays. This scene, one of many in the windows of Bergdorf Goodman, shows a woman conducting madness of music around her in what seems to be an all-too-fitting metaphor to close out twenty seventeen." "If you walk down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan at night around the holidays, you are there to see the high-end stores\u2019 window displays. This scene, one of many in the windows of Bergdorf Goodman, shows a woman conducting madness of music around her in what seems to be an all-too-fitting metaphor to close out twenty seventeen."

Big data, in the form of real time metrics is influencing the recording industry, reports Wired.

In the late 1970s, Robert Hazard had a problem. He’d been tooling around Philadelphia’s music scene for more than a decade, trying out any sound that might put him on the map, to no avail.

 

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