Recent research into the influence that others have on people's music tastes (they found that when their test subjects could see that songs by unknown bands were widely downloaded already they were more likely to do so themselves - well duh, and that they were likely to rate them higher as well - hmm) has produced a range of different interpretations from 'people like what they're told to' to 'this is why crap like Britney is successful' to 'this is good news for new bands trying to get noticed on the internet'.
They do tend to have something in common, though.
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