Music Recommendation and the Long Tail

Music Recommendation and Discovery 2010.

计算机科学;艺术

Mark Levy ; Klaas Bosteels

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来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Using a dataset of 7 billion recent submissions to the Last.fm Scrobble API1, we investigate possible popularity bias in Last.fm's recommendations and streaming radio services. In particular we compare the recent listening of users who lis- ten regularly to Last.fm streaming services with those who listen less often or never. Finally we describe a new service explicitly designed to make recommendations from the long tail, and analyse popularity e®ects across the recommenda-