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Richard Osborne and Dave Laing† (eds.) (2021). Music by numbers. The use and abuse of statistics in the music industries. Intellect. 270 pp.

Richard Osborne and Dave Laing† (eds.) (2021). Music by numbers. The use and abuse of statistics... Music by numbers is a volume edited by Richard Osborne and the late Dave Laing, dedicated to examining the various ways in which statistical and numerical data are used and misused in the music industries. Think about sales figures, royalty splits, tickets sold, global revenues, success ratios and economic value. The volume offers a critical assessment of the fascination of the music industries with numbers and draws attention to the many ways in which industry representations and narratives of these numbers have often served the interests of corporations that have dominated the music business for decades. It analyses and discusses a myriad of uses of numerical data, from the well-known music reports issued by trade organisations and interest groups, to calculations of the value of live music and computational analysis of music perceptions.While the project that resulted in this volume was well underway, Dave Laing, one of the most prolific and influential scholars in popular music studies, and initiator of the project, passed away in 2019. For that reason, Richard Osborne, finishing the project on his own, has contributed no less than four chapters to the fourteen chapter volume. Dave Laing’s contribution is a brief chapter based on a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Music Business Research de Gruyter

Richard Osborne and Dave Laing† (eds.) (2021). Music by numbers. The use and abuse of statistics in the music industries. Intellect. 270 pp.

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Music by numbers is a volume edited by Richard Osborne and the late Dave Laing, dedicated to examining the various ways in which statistical and numerical data are used and misused in the music industries. Think about sales figures, royalty splits, tickets sold, global revenues, success ratios and economic value. The volume offers a critical assessment of the fascination of the music industries with numbers and draws attention to the many ways in which industry representations and narratives of these numbers have often served the interests of corporations that have dominated the music business for decades. It analyses and discusses a myriad of uses of numerical data, from the well-known music reports issued by trade organisations and interest groups, to calculations of the value of live music and computational analysis of music perceptions.While the project that resulted in this volume was well underway, Dave Laing, one of the most prolific and influential scholars in popular music studies, and initiator of the project, passed away in 2019. For that reason, Richard Osborne, finishing the project on his own, has contributed no less than four chapters to the fourteen chapter volume. Dave Laing’s contribution is a brief chapter based on a

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International Journal of Music Business Research – de Gruyter

Published: Oct 1, 2022

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