The process of doing a popular song 'to infect' has something in common with the spread of the virus.



When hit songs are popular, the expressions 'to be contagious' or 'to be infected' are sometimes used. This is just an example of how it spreads explosively, but in a study published in late September 2021, such popular music, songs, and songs were actually a model similar to the spread of the disease. It was shown that there are many things in common that can be understood in.

Modeling song popularity as a contagious process | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2021.0457

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The study tracked songs downloaded from Nokia mobile phones between 2007 and 2014 and extracted songs from which fit a common model of infectious disease known as the Susceptible Infectious Disease Recovery (SIR) model. Did. When curving the increase in the number of users downloading popular songs, the research team thought that a social mechanism similar to illness might be working.

The SIR model, which describes the infection process of a disease, divides the entire population into those who are likely to be infected (susceptibility holders), those who are infected, and those who are less likely to be infected (immunity holders), according to the time series. A probabilistic calculation of how the infection spreads. Similarly, when music spreads in a close community, sensitive people first jump to the epidemic, and when the group is exhausted, it peaks, begins to decrease, and the epidemic converges. The team expected.

When the popularity expansion model, which shows how long the most popular songs were downloaded, was compared with the same calculation method as the SIR model, 87.2% of the 950 song samples, 828 songs, were appropriate for the SIR model. It was captured in. The team argues that matching with the SIR model, which adequately describes the mechanism of infectious disease spread, can capture the social factors underlying the song's popularity.



Regarding music trends, a

2006 sociological study showed that the most popular songs split when the same set of music was played in different groups, and a 2009 study of neural mechanisms showed that teens were strangers. It is suggested that songs and songs are contagious and spread depending on social conditions, as it is shown that there is a high possibility of changing the impression of the song.

The latest research has identified the behavior of song fans downloading or sharing music. For example, in the UK, electronica music was the fastest and most popular, despite the fact that pop music tended to be the most popular, because electronica fans are a 'sensitive community.' It seems that it is considered. As a result, electronica is an 'infectious' genre and is observed to become explosively popular as it experiences shorter, faster epidemics.



In the treatise, music research using this epidemiological model inferred the characteristics of fans (sensitive groups) of various genres, clarified the mechanism that promotes the popularity of songs, and succeeded in released songs. It also has the potential to predict whether it will or will fail.

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