Popular-Music

The Birmingham Live Music Project Map
A walktrough of the process behind the creation of the BLMP Map, a Shiny App developed in R and deployed on a cloud server.
May 29, 2020 18 min read Popular-Music, Academic, Data
The Birmingham Live Music Project Map
How to get podcast ratings and reviews data using R
Using R to download all episode data and Apple reviews and ratings for a podcast.
May 14, 2020 12 min read Popular-Music, Academic, Data
How to get podcast ratings and reviews data using R
Create an interactive map of the live music venues in your city with the Songkick API
A tutorial with replicable code for using R and the Songkick API to discover more about the live music venues in your city
Jan 20, 2020 26 min read Popular-Music, Academic, Data
Create an interactive map of the live music venues in your city with the Songkick API
New Independent Country EP - Brassneck
My country band, Independent Country, has a new EP out.
Nov 22, 2019 1 min read Popular-Music, Independent-Country, Music-Business
New Independent Country EP - Brassneck
Birmingham Live Music & Brexit
Report on Birmingham Live Music and Brexit
Dr Craig Hamilton
Last updated on Oct 28, 2019 3 min read Popular-Music, Academic, Data
Birmingham Live Music & Brexit
The Harkive Project - popular music reception, digital technologies, and data analysis
In this conference proceedings chapter, I discuss some of the analytical processing behind my work with The Harkive Project.
Craig Hamilton
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The Harkive Project - popular music reception, digital technologies, and data analysis
BCMCR - New Thinking #1 - 2019/20
A new zine publication from BCMCR
Dr Craig Hamilton
Last updated on Sep 20, 2019 2 min read Popular-Music, Academic
BCMCR - New Thinking #1 - 2019/20
Songwriting, Streaming and Sustainability, London, August 2019
Some days at work are much more interesting than others!
Dr Craig Hamilton
Last updated on Aug 15, 2019 2 min read Popular-Music, Music-Business, Songwriting
Songwriting, Streaming and Sustainability, London, August 2019
What was role of Tik Tok in the rise of Old Town Road?
Some thoughts on memes in this Medium article on Pop Music and Tik Tok
Dr Craig Hamilton
Last updated on Jun 30, 2019 1 min read Popular-Music, Music-Business, Technology, Social Media
What was role of Tik Tok in the rise of Old Town Road?
Harkive 2019
The latest iteration of my annual research project
Dr Craig Hamilton
Last updated on Jun 21, 2019 3 min read Popular-Music, Academic, Data
Harkive 2019