Social complex contagion in music listenership: A natural experiment with 1.3 million participants

Can live music events generate complex contagion in music streaming? This paper finds evidence in the affirmative—but only for the most popular artists. We generate a novel dataset from a music tracking website to analyse the listenership history of 1.3 million users over a two-month time horizon. W...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ternovski, J, Yasseri, T
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019