ABSTRACT
The decline of large corporations in the music industry the 'major labels' as the dominant unit for the production of value-added processes is closely associated with the equally declining importance of traditional taste-making institutions such as radio, sales charts, and journalists. The status of music journalists as pivotal rating entities situated between music producers and fans has come under pressure from the increase in music listeners offering their assessments and ratings of musical pieces through writing for blogs and communicating on social networks as well as algorithms embedded in digital music platforms. In recent years, many music sites and digital shops with social media functions are relying less on professionally curated music suggestions and instead are offering the listener musical selections that are a result of Internet activity and collaboration. Existing digital evaluation systems in the early years of the Internet as online forums, now nameless but omnipresent online assessment tools are initially based on algorithms.
