Music Experiment Results

[Mostess]

If I recall correctly, someone here participated in the experiment Franck describes in this NYT article. It was years ago so I'm not going to dig through the archives to make sure. Anyone else remember a "rate the indie songs and pass along to your friends" website? I remember noticing that the front page looked a lot like a psychology experiment subject release form.

Anyhow, it looks like they found that if you're lucky enough to be rated highly by the first few people who hear it, your chance of success is much much higher than if the first few listeners don't like it. Social feedback amplifies initial conditions. Like an egg balanced on a rooftop: it's the tiny fluctuations will determine which way it ultimately falls.

Anyhow. Hello Songfight. How've you been?

[HeuristicsInc]

Participated as a rater or a band? I guess you mean rater, but anyway I managed to find the band list:

52metro Lockdown
A Blinding Silence Miseries and Miracles
Art of Kanly Seductive Intro, Melodic Breakdown
Beerbong Father to Son
Benet of a Doubt Run Away
By November If I Could Take You
Cape Renewal Baseball Warlock v1
Dante Life's Mystery
Deep Enough to Die For the Sky
Drawn in the Sky Tap the Ride
Ember Sky This Upcoming Winter
Evan Gold Robert Downey Jr.
Fading Through Wish me Luck
Far from Known Route 9
Forthfading Fear
Go Mordecai It Does What Its Told
Hall of Fame Best Mistakes
Hartseld Enough is Enough
Hydraulic Sandwich Separation Anxiety
Miss October Pink Aggression
Moral Hazard Waste of my Life
Nooner at Nine Walk Away
Not for Scholars As Seasons Change
Parker Theory She Said
Post Break Tragedy Florence
Ryan Essmaker Detour (Be Still)
Salute the Dawn I am Error
Secretary Keep Your Eyes on the Ballistics
Selsius Stars of the City
Shipwreck Union Out of the Woods
Sibrian Eye Patch
Silent Film All I have to Say
Silverfox Gnaw
Simply Waiting Went with the Count
Star Climber Tell Me
Stranger One Drop
Stunt Monkey Inside Out
Sum Rana The Bolshevik Boogie
Summerswasted A Plan Behind Destruction
The Broken Promise The End in Friend
The Calefaction Trapped in an Orange Peel
The Fastlane Til Death do us Part (I don't)
The Thrift Syndicate 2003 a Tragedy
This New Dawn The Belief Above the Answer
Undo While the World Passes
Unknown Citizens Falling Over
Up Falls Down A Brighter Burning Star
Up for Nothing In Sight Of

Don't recognize anyone's names from here. The first-rater effect is kind of disturbing, although you can see that happen in lots of online voting things.
-bill