Spotify Analysis

Analysis of Billboard Hot 100 tracks in conjunction with Spotify's Echo Nest API

Site at https://key-change.onrender.com/

Spotify Web API reference at https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/

Datasets

billboard-hot-100-tracks.csv

Contains every Hot 100 chart up until the week of 11/6/2021

Burati, D. (2021). Billboard Hot 100 - Full History (Version 3) [Data set]. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/dylanburati/billboard-hot-100-full-history?resource=download

full_dataset.csv

Contains the data from billboard-hot-100-tracks.csv combined with data for those associated songs from Spotify's Web API. Audio features data was collected back until 1970, although the original dataset dates to 1958, so roughly 12 years are absent from this file.

weekly_avgs.csv

Averages (or counts occurances of, in the case of explicit music, major keys, and common time) all the available song data (full_dataset.csv) for each metric every week to get a broader picture of the week as a whole. A simple arithmetic mean is used. All tracks for a given week have the same weight in the calculation.

track_diversity_sample.csv

For each of the five decades in my dataset, I randomly selected 30 tracks. If there was too much uncertainty about an artist's identified gender or race, another track was randomly selected in order to maintain as much accuracy as possible. If there are any discrepancies in the dataset, I am happy to correct that in this project if you submit an issue.

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