hot100 {hermite}

Hot 100 hits

Description

This data corresponds to the 965 "number 1" hits on the Hot 100 chart over the period January 1955 to December 2003. For a recording that reaches the number one spot, Weeks measures the number of weeks that it stays at number one. The covariates are: Elvis = 1 if the recording was by Elvis Presley, = 0 otherwise; Beatles = 1 if the recording was by the Beatles, = 0 otherwise; Group = 1 if the recording was by a band, = 0 otherwise; Female = 1 if the artist was a solo female, = 0 otherwise; Male = 1 if the artist was a solo male, = 0 otherwise; Inst = 1 if the recording was purely instrumental, = 0 otherwise; and NonCon = 1 if the recording topped the charts in nonconsecutive weeks, = 0 otherwise.

Usage

hot100

Format

A data frame with 965 rows and 9 columns.

Source

http://web.uvic.ca/~dgiles/downloads/data/hot100.xls

References

Giles, D. E. (2006) Superstardom in the US popular music industry revisited. Economics Letters, 92(1):68–74. Giles, D. E. (2007) Modeling inflated count data. In Y. Berbers and W. Zwaenepoel, editors, Proceedings of the MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, pages 919–925. L. Oxley and D. Kulasiri, Eds., Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand