Superstardom in the U.S. Popular Music Industry Revisited

David Giles

No 511, Econometrics Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Victoria

Abstract: We provide empirical tests of the hypothesis that there were ‘superstars’ in the U.S. popular music industry between 1955 and 2003. Using different measures of artists’ successes, we reject a particular version of the superstar hypothesis. This contradicts earlier findings and indicates the sensitivity of the conclusions to the choice of ‘stardom’ measure.

Keywords: Popular music; Yule-Simon distribution; superstardom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 L82 Z11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2005-07-08
Note: ISSN 1485-6441
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