title: Topology of music recommendation networks.
abstract: We study the topology of several music recommendation networks, which arise from relationships between artist, co-occurrence of songs in play lists or experts' recommendation. The analysis uncovers the emergence of complex network phenomena in these kinds of recommendation networks, built considering artists as nodes and their resemblance as links. We observe structural properties that provide some hints on navigation and possible optimizations on the design of music recommendation systems. Finally, the analysis derived from existing music knowledge sources provides a deeper understanding of the human music similarity perception.
authors.affiliation: Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Ocata 1, 08003 Barcelona, Spain. pcano@iua.upf.es
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cano
authors.forename: Oscar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Celma
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koppenberger
authors.forename: Javier M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Buldú