LastFM User-Band Listening Network
A Last.fm music streaming and social platform dataset of 174,077 nodes and 894,472 edges, collected by KONECT via Last.fm API. Each record contains directed: False, weighted: True, temporal: True. Temporal bipartite network of Last.fm users and bands they listened to, with Unix timestamps per play event.. Suitable for music recommendation, temporal bipartite networks, listening behavior analysis.
Cite this dataset at
lastfm-band.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 174,077 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
lastfm-band- Authors
- Celma, Òscar
- Year
- 2008
- Source paper
- Music recommendation and discovery in the long tail
- License
- Unknown
- Records
- 174,077
- Nodes
- 174,077
- Edges
- 894,472
- Nodes are
- user / band
- Edges are
- listening event
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2009 (2000s)
- Tasks
- Recommendation (ranking) inferred
From the graph: link prediction, community detection - Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://konect.cc/networks/lastfm_band/ unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-16, 86.4 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{celma2008,
title = {Music recommendation and discovery in the long tail},
author = {Celma, Òscar},
year = {2008},
note = {Springer, 2010.}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Celma, Ò. (2008). LastFM User-Band Listening Network [Data set]. https://lastfm-band.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Celma, Òscar. LastFM User-Band Listening Network. 2008, lastfm-band.echo.directory/.