Can we make draw any useful insight from iTunes 'Listeners also bought...'?

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Six Feet Under soundtrack. Listeners also bought Glory-Hallelujah!

tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

...errm, well you know what I mean.

tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

People who bought X also bought Y are all about the volume- I don't think that itunes has nearly enough scale to get good data yet. Also, to do those recs well, you'd want to really look at removing the effect of your top sellers. If everyone, for example, has bought Pet Sounds, then it will show as a rec on all the other music that those people bought. Which is probably not interesting recommendation data, beyond saying that many people like Pet Sounds.

lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Ha, when you pull up my band's CD, three "also boughts" come up:

The Little Mermaid Soundtrack
X&Y
Aerosmith - Gold

I'm going to hope this isn't an accurate sampling of our audience.

Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)


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