Booze, drugs, and pop music: trends in substance portrayals in the billboard top 100-1968-2008.

Content analysis of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs in popular music.

OBJECTIVE To perform a comprehensive content analysis of substance use in contemporary popular music. DESIGN We analyzed the 279 most popular songs of 2005 according to Billboard magazine. Two coders working independently used a standardized data collection instrument to code portrayals of substance use. OUTCOME MEASURES Presence and explicit use of substances and motivations for, associati...

The evolution of popular music: USA 1960–2010

In modern societies, cultural change seems ceaseless. The flux of fashion is especially obvious for popular music. While much has been written about the origin and evolution of pop, most claims about its history are anecdotal rather than scientific in nature. To rectify this, we investigate the US Billboard Hot 100 between 1960 and 2010. Using music information retrieval and text-mining tools, ...

A Research on the Fragmented Culture of Iran’s Youth in the Content of Pop Music Lyrics

This research was done in order to describe the content of proposed lyrics’ concepts in permissible pop music based on published audio works’ list of music publication office in 2009 among 200 albums of music office published audio works,  the 10 number of pop singers were randomly selected and the lyrics’ concept of 70 music were also investigated. In the process of data analysis in the first ...

Oral Criticism/ Review of the book Form the Whisper of Tradition to the Charm of the Pop: An Investigation in Contemporary Iranian Music by Alireza Miralinaghi and Arvin SedaghatKish

Using P2P sharing activity to improve business decision making: proof of concept for estimating product life-cycle

Estimating the life-cycle or duration of a product can be an important input into a firm's decision-making related to production and marketing. In the music industry, online Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have attracted millions of potential music consumers and have had substantial impact on the music business. In this paper, we investigate the possible use of P2P information in estimating product...