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it talks about a study conducted over the internet of a bunch of groups voting on some downloadable music by unknown bands. They grouped the participants in social groups where each person could see what songs were being downloaded and how many times, and other groups where each participant selected his songs in isolation.
Not surprisingly, each type of group had vastly different results.
Basically, the best songs always did at least okay, and the worst songs always did bad, but in the middle almost any possibility could occur. One song which ranked square in the middle (for individuals, who could not observe which songs were popular was the #1 song in one group, and the #48 (out of 50) in another.
RE: What makes a song good/popular? (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
Mike, There was a great program on TV a few years ago at Christmas... They got these six wine experts and wine writers on the program to discuss the attributes of various wines. They all spoke about the fruit/tartness/lemon/depth/body/high-notes and all the experts were mainly in agreement on the various bottles they sampled...one trying to outdo the other on some "wistful" hint of flavour that the other hadn't detected. As a surprise at the end they were all challenged to take a "blind" Champagne test. Everybody laughed nervously..but you could see they didn't want to do it! But it was "live" TV.. They had six bottles ranging from $300 a bottle "Chateu" to $20 a bottle "Supermarket" stuff. The challenge was to put them in order of quality... A good number of them put the best first...but the "supermarket" stuff second.. It was a completely random result without seeing the label first!
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