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Laws of scattering applied to popular music

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Billboard Top 40 singles chart data were examined to determine if the frequency distribution of artist productivity fits either of two laws of scattering. Data were ranked by artist and the observed cumulative distribution functions were compared with the theoretical cumulative distribution functions for empirical laws developed by Lotka and Bradford. The Kolmogorov–Smirnov Goodness of Fit test showed the relationships between the theoretical and the observed were not statistically significant for either law. However, the marginal deviation from statistical significance may have been due to data contamination in that Billboard charts use some data manipulation rather than strictly objective sales or air play data. © 1989 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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  • Kevin L. Cook, 1989. "Laws of scattering applied to popular music," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 40(4), pages 277-283, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:40:y:1989:i:4:p:277-283
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198907)40:43.0.CO;2-E
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    1. Aloys Prinz, 2017. "Rankings as coordination games: the Dutch Top 2000 pop song ranking," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 41(4), pages 379-401, November.

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