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Posted by NC on 10/14/88 11:39
ReGenesis0@aol.com wrote:
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> How does one index the popularity of something?
However one pleases.
> I mean- this sort of problem has existed for twenty years.
In fact, the problem has existed for several hundred years (at least
since the start of book printing). The publishing industry, and later
the sound recording indurstry and movie/video industry all measure
popularity in a variety of ways.
Let's take movies, for example. You can measure their popularity by
how many people have seen it the first weekend after it came out, how
many people have seen it in movie theaters, how long it's been playing
in movie theaters, how many people purchased the DVD, and how many
people rented the DVD...
Records' popularity is measured in a similar variety of ways. You have
weekly charts that reflect "instant" popularity (current week's rating,
highest rating achieved, number of weeks the record stayed in the
chart), but you also have lifetime recognition -- the Gold (500,000
copies sold), Platinum (1,000,000 copies sold), and Diamond (10,000,000
copies sold) awards...
Cheers,
NC
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