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Music Fans’ Most Distinctive Artists by State. February 25, 2014. The Echo Nest director of developer platform Paul Lamere has determined the recording artist that is most “distinctive” to music fans in any state – that is to say, their favorite artists, relative to the people in other states – and presented his findings in the map below. Rhode Islanders listen to more Nirvana than people in other states do. Vermonters are, predictably, the biggest Phish Heads. And it’s plenty fascinating.
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How We Understand Music Genres. June 7, 2013. Everyone from Laughing Squid. Is talking about “ Every Noise At Once. The breadth of information in this chart. Is rather breathtaking – in fact, it channels a good deal of all the work we have ever done towards understanding the world of music. Yet the interface is a marvel of simplicity, masking most of the powerful stuff going on under the hood. Let’s take a peek, shall we? How did Glenn fit the world of music onto a word map that won the internet? Rdquo;,...
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The Echo Nest’s 5th Music Hack Day Boston Was a Roaring Success. November 12, 2013. This past weekend, The Echo Nest hosted the fifth Music Hack Day Boston. At the Microsoft NERD Center. Music Hack Day Boston has arguably become the biggest music hackathon in the world. Our strategy worked. On Sunday (more photos below), we saw 225 hackers present 58 hacks in a manageable two-plus hours, and many of the hacks drew robust applause – always a good sign. This year, sponsors included hack/reduce, Rdio, Sound...
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We Built This City On…. March 5, 2014. Ldquo;We built this city on rock ‘n roll,” observed. The '80s band Starship. Contenders include San Francisco. New York or Cleveland, depending on the verse. So, what kinds of music are these cities, not to mention many others, actually “built on? Rdquo; The Echo Nest’s world-leading music discovery solution can tell us. By combining our data about where artists are from with the kind of music they play. The results are fascinating. Is no more important pop music-wi...
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Data Reveals How Men and Women Differ as Music Fans. February 10, 2014. Ldquo;Men are from Mars and women are from Venus,” as a book. Both of these genders agree, however, that the music of Bruno Mars is well worth a listen – it’s just about every other artist they seem to disagree on. His Music Machinery blog. Has the full story, as well as a full-sized version of the chart. Previewed above, but here are some key findings:. These artists skew more “female” than any others in the top 1,000:. If an app or...
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Data Reveals How Men and Women Differ as Music Fans. February 10, 2014. Ldquo;Men are from Mars and women are from Venus,” as a book. Both of these genders agree, however, that the music of Bruno Mars is well worth a listen – it’s just about every other artist they seem to disagree on. His Music Machinery blog. Has the full story, as well as a full-sized version of the chart. Previewed above, but here are some key findings:. These artists skew more “female” than any others in the top 1,000:. If an app or...
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AirPair Adds Support for The Echo Nest. March 4, 2014. The great thing about APIs like ours. Is that they let developers integrate mountains of functionality and data without having to build it all themselves. By combining multiple APIs, they can make amazing things fairly rapidly (the same principle that guides the Music Hack Day. However, APIs don’t build themselves into products on their own. People have to do that. To help them, a startup called AirPair. Also From The Nest.
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Which Musicians Do People in 50 States Simply Not Have Time For? February 28, 2014. Hot on the heels of his widely-viewed. Maps of the most distinctive. Recording artists in each of the 50 states, The Echo Nest director of developer platform Paul Lamere published. A new map on Friday highlighting the artists people in each state listen to the least, relative to people in other states. Depicts the artists that music fans in each state listen to abnormally less than the people in the rest of the country.
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The Echo Nest Joins Spotify! March 6, 2014. We’re very excited to announce that The Echo Nest is joining Spotify, starting today! Together, we’re going to change how the world listens. For more information, see our press release. News and Insights from The Echo Nest, the leader in Music Intelligence. Also From The Nest. Contact us to learn more about how our solutions can help you and your business.
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