Selecting the best multi-role artist of rock bands of Iran in 2000s by applying ANP and TOPSIS grey

Abstract

One of important thing that causes a band be famous is multirole artists. A person with several abilities more than singing that help band to compose better songs. These artists are very famous but awards don’t consider any special award for them. Life of rock genre is to short in Iran but during these years many bands work in Iran while there isn’t music industry in this country. However this genre developed and found many fans in Iran and the aim of this research in selecting best multi-role artist of rock bands of Iran in 2000s. In this study four famous artists selected that they are: Shahram Sharbaf, Kaveh Afagh, Kaveh Yaghmaei and Erwin Khachikian. ANP and TOPSIS Grey applied for evaluating these artists that at first ANP used for identifying importance of criteria and TOPSIS Grey applied for final evaluating among alternatives. Final result is Kaveh Yaghmaei is the best multi-role artist of rock bands in last decade of Iran and Kaveh Afagh, Shahram Sharbaf and Erwin Khachikian are after him. This study can be considered in international awards as a framework and a special award for these artists.