Million Song Dataset

Re:Million Song Dataset by BurningFrog on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @06:49PM (#21392935)

True for a naive approach, but I'd think looking at the chart toppers for, say, each week would give decently comparable data.

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Re:Million Song Dataset by pocketcheese on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:36PM (#21393871)

I actually did something similar! I wrote a small blog post about it here https://www.popnalysis.com/blog/lyrics-over-time/

But I came to the same conclusion as the op comment. Music can't really be judged by any one metric! But that doesn't mean that you don't gain insight into how music has evolved!

also, I did release my entire lyrics dataset that I scraped (about 500k) for free.

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Re:Million Song Dataset by robryk on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:54PM (#21399825)

Yes, assuming you can find all the old chart toppers (and that this term has a consistent meaning over the whole time interval you're looking at). If, understandably, you have some gaps in old chart toppers, you need to assume something about them (probably that they were worse than all surviving ones, which helps if you're doing percentile-based comparisons).

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