Pith Number

pith:7K2N3EY2

pith:2024:7K2N3EY2KQ2KNLBQLDTXD63FBX

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Is it getting harder to make a hit? Evidence from 65 years of US music chart history

Jonas L. Juul, Marta Ewa Lech, Sune Lehmann

arxiv:2405.07574 v1 · 2024-05-13 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7K2N3EY2KQ2KNLBQLDTXD63FBX}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T08:18:24.972428Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fab4dd931a5434a6ac3058e771fb650dedf1cea5ca5957493854581745d1a68d

Aliases

arxiv: 2405.07574 · arxiv_version: 2405.07574v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2405.07574 · pith_short_12: 7K2N3EY2KQ2K · pith_short_16: 7K2N3EY2KQ2KNLBQ · pith_short_8: 7K2N3EY2

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7K2N3EY2KQ2KNLBQLDTXD63FBX \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: fab4dd931a5434a6ac3058e771fb650dedf1cea5ca5957493854581745d1a68d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52d1c4578bdc57885f39876d88e26cf9e6fd0dd30b933937139ed28eadbe1246",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-05-13T09:24:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4345d26277111fa3271f67c90ac2932fa6dac6b70cda79ce8f3c2c4f325d8302"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2405.07574",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}