"This is what people you know like on the internet right now"

"Pandora’s approach more or less ignores the crowd. It is indifferent to the possibility that any given piece of music in its system might become a hit. The idea is to figure out what you like, not what a market might like. More interesting, the idea is that the taste of your cool friends, your peers, the traditional music critics, big-label talent scouts and the latest influential music blog are all equally irrelevant. That’s all cultural information, not musical information."

"People who have broken a leg like video games such as Madden NFL 09 and NBA 2K9, whereas non-leg-breakers prefer Little Big Planet, Katamari Damacy, Super Mario Galaxy and World of Goo"

"With the Goodness API, developers can query the Echo Nest platform with an artist name. For any artist, the Echo Nest’s Musical Brain returns a numerical value, indicating the overall Goodness of the artist."