Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the CultMRS dataset and our novel LFM-BeyMS dataset. CultMRS comprises acoustic features of tracks. LFM-BeyMS is based on CultMRS and consists of BeyMS and Recommendation. Our analyses of beyond-mainstream music listeners utilize BeyMS and our recommendation experiments utilize Recommendation, which includes listening events of both users with beyond-mainstream and mainstream music taste
From: Support the underground: characteristics of beyond-mainstream music listeners
Item | CultMRS [50] | LFM-BeyMS (our novel dataset) | |
|---|---|---|---|
BeyMS | Recommendation | ||
Users | 55,149 | 2074 | 4148 |
Tracks | 3,478,399 | 157,444 | 1,084,922 |
Artists | 337,840 | 14,922 | 110,898 |
Listening Events (LEs) | 394,944,868 | 4,916,174 | 16,687,363 |
Min. LEs per user | 1 | 3 | 9 |
\(Q_{1}\) LEs per user | 1442 | 1254 | 2604 |
Median LEs per user | 5667 | 2048 | 3766 |
\(Q_{3}\) LEs per user | 9738 | 3239 | 5252 |
Max. LEs per user | 399,210 | 10,536 | 11,177 |
Avg. LEs per user | 7161.41 (± 10,326.91) | 2371.526 (± 1520.629) | 4,022.990 (± 1898.060) |