System and method for generating a personalized concert playlist

A method for providing access to media content associated with an artist scheduled for performance, using a digital media content environment, comprising:

• providing, at a media device, a media application that enables display of a playlist personalized for a user based on a location of the user, a list of artists scheduled for performance, and a media consumption history of the user;
• wherein an input action can be performed by the user to cause a media server to populate the playlist with media content accessible to the user via the playlist;
• and
• wherein the media server, upon the user performing the input action,
• determines the location of the user,
• queries a database comprising performance listings, each of which performance listings is associated with an artist scheduled for performance, to retrieve performance listings within a predetermined distance of the location of the user,
• queries a database comprising media consumption histories of a plurality of users of the media application, to retrieve the media consumption history of the user, wherein the media consumption history of the user describes media content items previously delivered from the media server to the user,
• determines an initial set of artists to be used in filtering the performance listings, based on the retrieved media consumption history of the user,
• filters the retrieved performance listings based on the retrieved media consumption history of the user to obtain a filtered set of artists having performance listings relevant to the user,
• queries a database comprising aggregate delivery information of media content items to other users, including listening profiles identifying media content and artists played by the other users, to determine one or more other users having listening profiles similar to a listening profile associated with the user,
• selects one or more additional artists identified in the listening profiles of the one or more other users having listening profiles similar to the listening profile associated with the user,
• determines the one or more additional artists having performance listings within the predetermined distance of the location of the user, as an expanded set of artists, based on the aggregate delivery information,
• determines a media content item associated with each artist from one or more of the filtered set of artists, or expanded set of artists, and
• organizes and populates the playlist with the determined media content items.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform the steps comprising:

• providing, at a media device, a media application that enables display of a playlist personalized for a user based on a location of the user, a list of artists scheduled for performance, and a media consumption history of the user;
• wherein an input action can be performed by the user to cause a media server to populate the playlist with media content accessible to the user via the playlist;
• and
• wherein the media server, upon the user performing the input action,
• determines the location of the user,
• queries a database comprising performance listings, each of which performance listings is associated with an artist scheduled for performance, to retrieve performance listings within a predetermined distance of the location of the user,
• queries a database comprising media consumption histories of a plurality of users of the media application, to retrieve the media consumption history of the user, wherein the media consumption history of the user describes media content items previously delivered from the media server to the user,
• determines an initial set of artists to be used in filtering the performance listings, based on the retrieved media consumption history of the user,
• filters the retrieved performance listings based on the retrieved media consumption history of the user to obtain a filtered set of artists having performance listings relevant to the user,
• queries a database comprising aggregate delivery information of media content items to other users, including listening profiles identifying media content and artists played by the other users, to determine one or more other users having listening profiles similar to a listening profile associated with the user,
• selects one or more additional artists identified in the listening profiles of the one or more other users having listening profiles similar to the listening profile associated with the user,
• determines the one or more additional artists having performance listings within the predetermined distance of the location of the user, as an expanded set of artists, based on the aggregate delivery information,
• determines a media content item associated with each artist from one or more of the filtered set of artists, or expanded set of artists, and
• organizes and populates the playlist with the determined media content items.