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28 Jan, 2020

You can always trust data.

cheating, data, playlists

Last week Swedish radio took off their Digilist, the top list over most streamed songs. This after a couple of weeks with rumors around cheating. Then an artist did a experiment and showed in a big newspaper how easy it

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21 Jan, 2020

The algorithm can’t predict the future!

algorithms, future

Well the tech guys want us to believe that the algorithm is that magic that it actually can predict the future in the big data. Maybe in a George Orwell future, it can, but I really don’t want to live

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16 Jan, 2020

We need a new top chart!

streams, top-chart

I’m utterly tired of explaining to idiots that you have millions of streams doesn’t make you a star, or even successful. In the old days, the counting of sales was a good measurement of how popular you were. That is

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8 Jan, 2020

Genre is not needed, haven’t we got further then that!

genre

Genre is not needed, haven’t we got further than that! The line is from a new artist that was in the pre-selection of the Idol 2015 in Sweden. And now she is doing a comeback with a new totally unknown

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3 Jan, 2020

Social media is not the right way to go!

Social Media

I just read an article around social media on a business site. Really interesting reading. It’s in Swedish and you need to subscribe to read it so no point to link it here. Still, it really got my attention because

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