A Novel Framework for Measuring the Popularity of Musicians

The directed network of musicians and its follower reveals how the influence of musicians passing through the network and the kinds of music change with time, and how others influence the style and characteristics of musicians. This paper presents a new framework to measure the influence of musicians by showing the processing of directed network data of musicians while demonstrating the basic process of solving this type of influence calculation. The framework we presented in this paper considers genre and time, respectively. Under this proposed framework, one can calculate the influence of a musician, determine specific characteristics of musicians, find out which genre a musician belongs and predict what type of music will dominate the future music market.