Link Me Baby One More Time: Social Music Discovery on Spotify

arXiv:2401.08818v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: We explore the social and contextual factors that influence the outcome of person-to-person music recommendations and discovery. Specifically, we use data from Spotify to investigate how a link sent from one user to another results in the receiver engaging with the music of the shared artist. We consider several factors that may influence this process, such as the strength of the sender-receiver relationship, the user's role in the Spotify social network, their music social cohesion, …

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