Influence Analysis in Music: Artists and Genres

Naizheng Jia, College Information and Science, Northeastern University, Dian Zu, Baojun Jia, College Information and Science, Northeastern University, Fushun Petrochemical Corporation, China
2021 Journal of Innovation and Social Science Research  
Music is an important part of human civilization, which is accompanied by the emergence and development of human civilization. While music is developing, different genres of music or musicians' styles are all influencing each other. Therefore, it is significant to understand and measure the influence of music influencers and their followers in different genres of music with social development. Address to identify the influence network of American music, firstly, a PageRank model was proposed to
more » ... calculate the music influence of every artist among the network. According to the results, we built the subnetworks to illustrate the influence of different sets. Then, we did research on distinguishing between genres, which utilized the random forest classifier. Furthermore, Gini impurity is used to demonstrate the feature's importance. Our result shows that Pop is the best influential genre, and acousticness is the most distinguishing feature.
doi:10.53469/jissr.2021.08(07).36 fatcat:n6imwa6hwfh5tb3c45ferb3uqa