Artist gender representation in music streaming
Avriel Epps-Darling, Romain Takeo Bouyer, Henriette Cramer
Audio streaming services have made it easier for countries around the world to listen to each other’s music. This expansion in listeners’ access to global content, however, has raised questions about streaming’s impact on the import and export flows of music between countries and their preferences for local or global content. Here, we analyze five and a half years of all streaming data from Spotify, a global music streaming service, and find that preferences for local content have increased from 2014 through 2019, reversing previously noted trends. Perhaps correspondingly, both common official language and geographic proximity between countries increasingly shape listener consumption during this period, particularly for younger audiences. Further, we show that these trends persist across different genres, listener age groups, and early- and late-adopters of streaming, providing new insights into this newest phase in the continued evolution of music and its impact on listeners around the world.
Avriel Epps-Darling, Romain Takeo Bouyer, Henriette Cramer
Casper Hansen, Christian Hansen, Lucas Maystre, Rishabh Mehrotra, Brian Brost, Federico Tomasi, Mounia Lalmas
Rishabh Mehrotra, Prasanta Bhattacharya, Mounia Lalmas