Sound index: charts for the people, by the people

ABSTRACT

Mining the wisdom of the online crowds generates music business intelligence, identifying what's hot and what's not.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.1 Content Analysis and Indexing

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.0 General
      C.2.4 Distributed Systems

  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
      H.3.5 On-line Information Services
  H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
      H.4.3 Communications Applications

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
      K.4.4 Electronic Commerce
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.0 General