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- Title
Songwriting Loafing or Creative Collaboration?: A Comparison of Individual and Team Written Billboard Hits in the USA.
- Authors
Pettijohn II, Terry F.; Ahmed, Shujaat F.
- Abstract
Individual and group songwriting credits of Billboard number one songs in the United States for each year from 1955 to 2009 were investigated for possible social loafing effects within the music industry. Based on previous mixed findings, we predicted a null effect with respect to the popularity of individual versus team written top Billboard songs. As predicted, individually and group written songs were equally represented at the top of the Billboard charts for the time period investigated. Explanations for this outcome and limitations are discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SONGWRITING; MUSIC industry; SOCIAL loafing; UNITED States music
- Publication
Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, 2010, Vol 7, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1539-8714
- Publication type
Article