Pricing decisions for art-related products is always a sensitive topic. Much of the value of such products are determined by purely the perception of buyers and subjective attributions. For example, on a super interesting study published in 2016 at the Journal “Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts”, researchers revealed that the reputation of a gallery,...

MusicStats.org is permanently open for partnerships and collaborations. This time we feel extremely proud to announce a new research collaborator: Prof. Dr. Cansu Hattula. Prof. Dr. Cansu Hattula is already working a collaboration project together with Prof. Dr. Francisco Tigre Moura to investigate listeners’ perceptions and behaviors towards tangible and intangible music...

“Why shouldn’t people be able to teleport wherever they want?” elaborates Palmer Luckey in an interview with The Wall Street Journal (Wolfe, 2015). Obviously, teleportation is not meant in the literal sense of the word, but rather in terms of virtual reality (VR). Luckey is the founder of the VR company Oculus, sold to Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook for more than $2 billion in March...

Nowadays, when a musician or a band is active, the general lifespan of a record is on average 2 years, from release until the end of a tour. Only after this comes a new record. This means the fan must wait at least two years to listen 10 or 12 new songs of their favorite style or artist. This has always represented a massive long wait for a short amount of new content. But all of...