You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music Highlight

Classic and Contemporary and Outlaw Country each also form distinct clusters. There is a Canadian country scene, and an Australian one, and even a Czech one, and American country gets you to Gothic Americana and Black Americana and Norwegian Americana, and Sertanejo is basically the Brazilian version of country music. Instead of granting implicit ownership of ‘Country Music’ to any one of these by virtue of popularity, it’s at least a start to try to understand this diversity for its own sake, and present it for the listener’s. ‘Recommendation’ is not just the wrong word, it’s the wrong idea. We don’t undo historical underrepresentation by picking different favorites, we undo it by disassembling the norms that pick favorites in the first place.