entertainment goods as music and movies. In the markets for music, this implies that the same hits and the same artists should be … Song Contest, the worldwide biggest live broadcasted international music competition between all countries of the European …

significantly influences the individual voting bias, for instance, experts with classical music backgrounds display significantly … international music competition. The countries of the European Broadcasting Union participate by sending an artist (or a group of … analyzed the voting behavior of juries (consisting of music industry professionals) and audiences to identify voting biases …

There is a considerable amount of literature analyzing factors of success in music contests, in particular those where … neglected in the literature. In this paper, we tackle this research gap by focusing on a national music contest in Germany and … popularity. First, we collected data regarding the artist's former success (MacDonald-popularity) using music charts data. Second …