Vocabulary
The means by which music generates income.
What is monetization?
During this time period, the planet was experiencing many influential events, including the end of WWII, the beginning of the Cold War, and the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the 1950s-early 60s?
Touring, selling merchandise, and sponsorships/brand deals supplement an artists low income from this.
What is streaming royalities/payout-per-stream?
This is a topic, hashtag, meme, or other social media phenomenon that is widely used and distributed across social media platforms.
What is a trend?
A set of rules a platform uses to decide what to show or recommend.
What is an algorithm?
This technology was primarily responsible for the spread and distribution of music in the 1950s.
What is the radio?
Platform staff/editorial playlist makers and influencers/content creators are examples of this.
What are gatekeepers?
Name one influencer that you would consider a "gatekeeper", and defend your choice.
Who is (name someone)?
The label/team role focused on finding new artists, helping shape their sound/image, choosing songs, and guiding development and releases. Often uses streaming data to scout talent.
What is A&R/artists and repertoire?
This era saw the emergence of two infuential genres: the British Invasion and Motown.
What is the 1960s-70s?
Instead of releasing an album, an artist may release ten of these back-to-back in order to stay relevant.
What is a single/what are singles?
This is one way an artist may be affected by their song becoming a trend.
Say anything and defend it. Lol.
People or systems that strongly influence what becomes popular.
This genre was massively popular in the 1950s-60s.
What is Rock & Roll?
A song has a high save rate and a low skip rate. As a result, the algorithm might do this.
What is recommend the song to people/push the song to users?
True or false: the trend cycle is incredibly long, allowing artists to easily achieve and maintain relevance.
What is false?
The specific process where a platform's algorithm suggests new songs/artists based on user behavior and patterns from many listeners.
What is algorithmic recommendation?
The Beatles were skyrocketed to overnight fame after their appearance on this talk show.
What is the Ed Sullivan Show?
This is the result of a song being added to a major editorial playlist.
What is the songs streams go up?
What is true?