LV-11: Exploring Popularity Bias in Music Steaming Services
Douglas Turnbull, Vera Crabtree, Sean McQuillan
Abstract:
Popularity bias is the idea that a music recommender system will unduly favor popular artists when recommending artists to users. In this paper, we attempt to measure popularity bias on three commercial music streaming services (Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube). We find no significant evidence of popularity bias in the commercial recommendations based on a simulated user experiment.