CASE STUDIES

Deconstructing the Billboard Hot 100

Andrew Ullah, Marshall School of Business

University of Southern California

Reggaeton Without Blackness

Eduard Arriaga, Clarke University

2021 MusicID Digital Research Fellowship Recipient

The Year the 80s Died: Nirvana, Michael Jackson and Metallica in 1991

Katie Straker, PhD Candidate

The Graduate Center, CUNY

The Beatles vs. Musicals: What was even bigger than Beatlemania?

Katie Straker, PhD Candidate

The Graduate Center, CUNY

Variance of the Life Cycle of # 1 Singles on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart from the 1960s to 2010s

George Pearson

See the exact week hip-hop broke into the mainstream

In 2007 Radiohead parted ways with their record label, EMI

The label had agreed to be purchased by private equity firm Terra Firma that same year. Subsequently, the band self-released their following album In Rainbows on a direct to consumer, pay-what-you-want model via download on their website.

The Geography of Pop Music Superstars

Dr Richard Florida and Patrick Adler used data provided by MusicID to identify the 50 top-selling artists between 1950 and 2014. They then used this information to create a locational database in order to determine which cities produced pop’s biggest hit-makers.

Dr. Richard Florida, University of Toronto Professor and Senior Editor at The Atlantic

Patrick Adler, Ph.D. candidate at UCLA

Derivative Works 2.0: Reconsidering Transformative Use in the Age of Crowdsourced Creation

Jacqueline D. Lipton and John Tehranian

Northwestern University Law Review

Toward Hip-Hop Pedagogies for Music Education

Adam J. Kruse, University of Illinois

Musical Influence Network Analysis and Rank of Sample-based Music

Nicholas J. Bryan and Ge Wang

Stanford University