{"id":4938,"date":"2015-09-16T20:47:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T20:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2015-08-13T21:05:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:05:05","slug":"linked-we-analyzed-a-month-of-beats-1-tracks-to-figure-out-apples-taste-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/16\/linked-we-analyzed-a-month-of-beats-1-tracks-to-figure-out-apples-taste-in-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;We analyzed a month of Beats 1 tracks to figure out Apple\u2019s taste in music&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/477017\/we-analyzed-a-month-of-beats-1-tracks-to-figure-out-apples-taste-in-music\/\">QZ.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Beats 1 has something that is rare in the world of digital music: scarcity. Listeners can\u2019t choose a song and play it over and over. (They can do that elsewhere on Apple Music.) But curation doesn\u2019t mean songs aren\u2019t repeated. We counted 12,445 tracks but only 3,371 unique songs, meaning each track was played an average of 3.7 times. Eighteen of the 20 songs in the table above were played over 50 times.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From that list, these are the artists I\u2019ve heard of &#8211; Beck, Calvin Harris, Skrillex, Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of them could be indie but I\u2019m going to go with no. All this tells me is that the promise that Beats1 would help me discover new music without having to go out and discover it for myself has failed. Not only does iTunes not let me click and buy the song I\u2019m currently hearing, but they\u2019re basically just playing a Kiss-FM style station with a few unknowns thrown in (maybe one song per hour from someone that isn\u2019t \u201cPopular\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a failure in my eyes and really disappointing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via QZ.com: Beats 1 has something that is rare in the world of digital music: scarcity. 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