. While bias is inherently difficult to measure, we identify a context within the music industry that is amenable to bias … against women. Using data on Spotify curators' rank of songs on New Music Friday playlists in 2017, we find that Spotify's New … Music Friday rankings favor independent-label music, along with some evidence of bias in favor of music by women. Despite …

This paper studies the role of consumer learning in the demand for recorded music by examining the impact of an artist …

There is a puzzle arising from empirical analyses of the impact of music piracy that this has caused declines in music … music. There have been numerous explanations posited and this paper adds a novel one: that artists are time inconsistent and …

global music consumption and trade since 1960, using a unique data on popular music charts from 22 countries, corresponding … to over 98% of the global music market. We find that trade volumes are higher between countries that are geographically … roughly proportional to country GDP shares; and relative to GDP, the US music share is substantially below the shares of other …

digital music as its context, this paper explores the profit and welfare implications of various alternatives, including song …

Streaming music services have exploded in popularity in the past few years, variously raising optimism and concern … about their impacts on recorded music revenue. On the one hand, streaming services allow sellers to engage in bundling with … interest in music not generating revenue through individual track sales - unpaid consumption and deadweight loss - into …

incentives to bring forth a steady stream of valuable new products. This paper assesses the quality of new recorded music since … Napster, using three independent approaches. The first is an index of the quantity of high-quality music based on critics …' retrospective lists. The second and third approaches rely directly on music sales and airplay data, respectively, using of the idea …

In the decade since Napster, file-sharing has undermined the protection that copyright affords recorded music, reducing … recorded music sales. What matters for consumers, however, is not sellers' revenue but the surplus they derive from new music … works released annually, since 1960, derived from retrospective critical assessments of music such best-of-the-decade lists …