Explore Fair MusE Data
Radio Broadcasts
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Each slice of the donut plot shows how many tracks are present by country, shown as a percentage of the total. Belgium, France, and Denmark represent 50% of the broadcasting events in our database.
This figure illustrates a scatterplot where each point represents the top 150 tracks by radio station and country. The y-axis shows the number of broadcasts on a logarithmic scale. The x-axis depicts which position tracks occupy on the ranking in descending order.
Most radio station broadcasts follow the same shape, an exponential decay. This decay is so striking that a logarithmic scale is used to prevent most points being near the bottom of the figure.
Select a country from the dropdown menu to highlight the distribution of number of broadcasts by radio station in a single country, staked as vertical bars. Each colour of the palette is used to denote a different radio station.
The figure examines the countries from where music is consumed in our radio broadcasts database. The y-axis shows the Domestic ratio: proportion of tracks from the radio station origin country to tracks from other countries. The x-axis shows the country of residence popularity, i.e., ranking the proportion of tracks from one country to the total number of tracks from all other countries, as a percentage. Values are jittered for better visualization.
A higher DR means that radio stations broadcast more tracks from their own countries while lower DR values mean they broadcast more international music. Our database lacks country information on a large number of tracks/credited artists on radio broadcasts. The proportion of tracks without country information to the total number of artists is labeled as “Artist country N/A ratio”. As was the case for the listener domestic ratio, non-standard country codes are part of the N/A ratio. For radio stations with high N/A ratio values (>0.4), the Domestic ratio values are less reliable measures of the proportion of domestic tracks broadcasted by those radio stations