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http://dx.doi.org/10.9728/dcs.2017.18.6.1025

A Study on the Trend of Korean Pop Music Preference Through Digital Music Market  

Chung, Ji-Yun (Department of Content Convergence, Ewha Womans University)
Kim, Myoung-Jun (Department of Content Convergence, Ewha Womans University)
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Journal of Digital Contents Society / v.18, no.6, 2017 , pp. 1025-1032 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently the domestic popular song market has been growing mainly in digital sound sources. As a result of analyzing the top 100 music charts from 2012 to 2016 through digital sound sources and musical scores, the average annual BPM has fallen by 11.26 over five years. Every year, The style of music has diversified every year, and the proportion of Hip-hop has doubled from 8.5% in 2012 to 17.8% in 2015. Dance music and ballads have a high preference rate, but the relationship is inversely proportional. Singer composition was inversely proportional to the ratio of female solo to male group. Especially, the relationship between BPM and the Major/Minor key is that 81.42% for slow tempo songs is Major key and 53.85% for fast tempo songs is minor key. In the case of TV drama OST, the solo singer 's music was preferred, the music style was 80% pop and 20% ballad.
Keywords
Popular Music; Music Chart; Digital Sound Resource; Streaming Service; Digital Music;
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