We recently read the Salganik article about the study done that tried to test the predictability of what song would be most popular. Some participants were shown the download counts of each song and some weren't. It was more unpredictable in the social influence groups, where participants could see which songs were trending.
I felt that this was one of the more interesting articles we read this semester. In my group of friends we usually have a few songs that we beat to death for a few months. One summer in particular, we had a certain playlist that we listened to every single time we hung out. The songs we pick to overplay are not always the best quality, similarly to the study.
Its always tough for us to trace who got the song popular among our group of friends, everyone seems to think that they listened to Led Zeppelin before everyone else, even though John Bonham died almost a decade before we were born. I don't know what bring out that hipster in all of us that wants to be the first to listen to a band or introduce them to our friends, but its deep within all of my friends.
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