From LiveScience.com (via Slashdot), The Science of Hit Songs: popularity via high ratings is eventually a self-fulfilling prophecy that can be gamed, with promotional energy ultimately trumping (even whumping) quality. How else to explain Ashlee Simpson? (Not that we didn't know this, but the extra evidence is interesting.)
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