VARIETY AND SUPERSTARDOM IN POPULAR-MUSIC

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HAMLEN, WA
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10.1111/j.1465-7295.1994.tb01338.x
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The recording industry for popular singers, 1955-1987, consisted of a lower-end market for singles and a higher-end market for albums. The singles market acted as an entry-level quality filter for the album market. While this two-tier market system might have led to the 'superstar phenomenon' in the Marshall-Rosen sense, other non-quality factors, such as the singer's race or musical style, resulted in an imperfect quality filter, possibly explaining why the industry did not exhibit superstardom statistical
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