This dataset, "Spotify's Long Hits (2014-2024) 🎶," offers a unique collection of over 800 tracks, each standing out for its extended playtime, marking the years from 2014 to 2024. It serves as a unique lens through which the evolution of musical duration and listener preferences can be observed over a significant period. Each track in this dataset not only surpasses the conventional lengths but also encapsulates the essence of its time, making it a valuable resource for in-depth musical analysis.

Data Science Applications: The dataset's structure lends itself to various analytical pursuits within the data science realm. Researchers and enthusiasts can delve into trend analysis to uncover shifts in musical durations over the years, perform genre-based studies to explore the relationship between genre and track length, or even train machine learning models to predict track popularity based on various features. However, make sure to use the dataset only for educational purposes as per Spotify guidelines.

Column Descriptors: - ID: The unique identifier for each track on Spotify, facilitating direct access to the track. - Name: The title of the track, revealing its identity. - Duration (Minutes): The length of each track, provided in minutes, highlighting the extended nature of these compositions. - Artists: The names of the artists involved, offering insights into the collaborative landscape of each piece.

Ethically Mined Data: This dataset has been compiled with strict adherence to ethical data mining practices, utilizing Spotify's public API in full compliance with their guidelines. It represents a harmonious blend of technology and creativity, showcasing the vast musical archive that Spotify offers.

Gratitude is extended to Spotify for the data provided and the usage of their logo in the dataset thumbnail, which adds a recognizable visual cue to this academic resource. This dataset stands as a testament to the power of music and data combined, inviting exploration into the depths of musical analysis.

Spotify Million Playlist Dataset Challenge

Summary

The Spotify Million Playlist Dataset Challenge consists of a dataset and evaluation to enable research in music recommendations. It is a continuation of the RecSys Challenge 2018, which ran from January to July 2018. The dataset contains 1,000,000 playlists, including playlist titles and track titles, created by users on the Spotify platform between January 2010 and October 2017. The evaluation task is automatic playlist continuation: given a seed playlist title and/or initial set of tracks in a playlist, to predict the subsequent tracks in that playlist. This is an open-ended challenge intended to encourage research in music recommendations, and no prizes will be awarded (other than bragging rights).

Background

Playlists like Today’s Top Hits and RapCaviar have millions of loyal followers, while Discover Weekly and Daily Mix are just a couple of our personalized playlists made especially to match your unique musical tastes.

Our users love playlists too. In fact, the Digital Music Alliance, in their 2018 Annual Music Report, state that 54% of consumers say that playlists are replacing albums in their listening habits.

But our users don’t love just listening to playlists, they also love creating them. To date, over 4 billion playlists have been created and shared by Spotify users. People create playlists for all sorts of reasons: some playlists group together music categorically (e.g., by genre, artist, year, or city), by mood, theme, or occasion (e.g., romantic, sad, holiday), or for a particular purpose (e.g., focus, workout). Some playlists are even made to land a dream job, or to send a message to someone special.

The other thing we love here at Spotify is playlist research. By learning from the playlists that people create, we can learn all sorts of things about the deep relationship between people and music. Why do certain songs go together? What is the difference between “Beach Vibes” and “Forest Vibes”? And what words do people use to describe which playlists?

By learning more about nature of playlists, we may also be able to suggest other tracks that a listener would enjoy in the context of a given playlist. This can make playlist creation easier, and ultimately help people find more of the music they love.

Dataset

To enable this type of research at scale, in 2018 we sponsored the RecSys Challenge 2018, which introduced the Million Playlist Dataset (MPD) to the research community. Sampled from the over 4 billion public playlists on Spotify, this dataset of 1 million playlists consist of over 2 million unique tracks by nearly 300,000 artists, and represents the largest public dataset of music playlists in the world. The dataset includes public playlists created by US Spotify users between January 2010 and November 2017. The challenge ran from January to July 2018, and received 1,467 submissions from 410 teams. A summary of the challenge and the top scoring submissions was published in the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology.

In September 2020, we re-released the dataset as an open-ended challenge on AIcrowd.com. The dataset can now be downloaded by registered participants from the Resources page.

Each playlist in the MPD contains a playlist title, the track list (including track IDs and metadata), and other metadata fields (last edit time, number of playlist edits, and more). All data is anonymized to protect user privacy. Playlists are sampled with some randomization, are manually filtered for playlist quality and to remove offensive content, and have some dithering and fictitious tracks added to them. As such, the dataset is not representative of the true distribution of playlists on the Spotify platform, and must not be interpreted as such in any research or analysis performed on the dataset.

Dataset Contains

1000 examples of each scenario:

Title only (no tracks) Title and first track Title and first 5 tracks First 5 tracks only Title and first 10 tracks First 10 tracks only Title and first 25 tracks Title and 25 random tracks Title and first 100 tracks Title and 100 random tracks

Download Link

Full Details: https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/spotify-million-playlist-dataset-challenge
Download Link: https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/spotify-million-playlist-dataset-challenge/dataset_files

MGD: Music Genre Dataset

Over recent years, the world has seen a dramatic change in the way people consume music, moving from physical records to streaming services. Since 2017, such services have become the main source of revenue within the global recorded music market. Therefore, this dataset is built by using data from Spotify. It provides a weekly chart of the 200 most streamed songs for each country and territory it is present, as well as an aggregated global chart.

Considering that countries behave differently when it comes to musical tastes, we use chart data from global and regional markets from January 2017 to December 2019, considering eight of the top 10 music markets according to IFPI: United States (1st), Japan (2nd), United Kingdom (3rd), Germany (4th), France (5th), Canada (8th), Australia (9th), and Brazil (10th).

We also provide information about the hit songs and artists present in the charts, such as all collaborating artists within a song (since the charts only provide the main ones) and their respective genres, which is the core of this work. MGD also provides data about musical collaboration, as we build collaboration networks based on artist partnerships in hit songs. Therefore, this dataset contains:

Genre Networks: Success-based genre collaboration networks

Genre Mapping: Genre mapping from Spotify genres to super-genres

Artist Networks: Success-based artist collaboration networks

Artists: Some artist data

Hit Songs: Hit Song data and features

Charts: Enhanced data from Spotify Weekly Top 200 Charts

This dataset was originally built for a conference paper at ISMIR 2020. If you make use of the dataset, please also cite the following paper:

Gabriel P. Oliveira, Mariana O. Silva, Danilo B. Seufitelli, Anisio Lacerda, and Mirella M. Moro. Detecting Collaboration Profiles in Success-based Music Genre Networks. In Proceedings of the 21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2020), 2020.

@inproceedings{ismir/OliveiraSSLM20, title = {Detecting Collaboration Profiles in Success-based Music Genre Networks}, author = {Gabriel P. Oliveira and Mariana O. Silva and Danilo B. Seufitelli and Anisio Lacerda and Mirella M. Moro}, booktitle = {21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference} pages = {726--732}, year = {2020} }

On October 22, 2024, 'APT.' by ROSÉ and Bruno Mars was the most-streamed track on Spotify with 14.6 million streams worldwide, followed by 'Die With A Smile" by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, reaching over 11 million Spotify streams on Spotify that day. Billie Eilish's 'BIRDS OF A FEATHER' came third with just over 7.6 million streams. How do music artists get so many streams on Spotify? Firstly, Spotify is one of the most successful and popular music streaming services in the United States, and as of the first half of 2018 had the biggest share of music streaming subscribers in the world. With Spotify’s vast audience, featuring on the platform is a good start for emerging and popular artists hoping to make an impact. Secondly, there is no exact science to ‘going viral’. From the famous egg photo on Instagram posted in early 2019 to wildly successful music video ‘Gangnam Style’ released back in 2012, viral content comes in all shapes and sizes. Purposeful viral marketing is one way in which something could go viral, and is one of the reasons why some songs have so many streams in a short space of time. This type of marketing involves a tactical approach and pre-planning in an attempt to push the content into the public eye and encourage it to spread as quickly as possible. However, many artists who go viral do not expect to. Accessible, catchy content created by an already popular artist is already poised to do well, i.e. the latest song or album from U.S. singer Drake. This is an example of incidental viral marketing, when content spreads by itself partially as a result of an established and engaged audience. Indeed, Spotify’s most-streamed tracks generally originate from a well-known figure with a large following. But for smaller or entirely unknown content creators, going viral or experiencing their 15 minutes of fame can simply be a case of posting the right thing at the right time.

Context

This dataset contains audio statistics of the top 2000 tracks on Spotify. The data contains about 15 columns each describing the track and it's qualities. Songs released from 1956 to 2019 are included from some notable and famous artists like Queen, The Beatles, Guns N' Roses, etc. http://sortyourmusic.playlistmachinery.com/ by @plamere uses Spotify API to extract the audio features from the tracks given the Spotify Playlist URI. This data contains audio features like Danceability, BPM, Liveness, Valence(Positivity) and many more. Each feature's description has been given in detail below.

Content

• Index: ID
• Title: Name of the Track
• Artist: Name of the Artist
• Top Genre: Genre of the track
• Year: Release Year of the track
• Beats per Minute(BPM): The tempo of the song
• Energy: The energy of a song - the higher the value, the more energtic. song
• Danceability: The higher the value, the easier it is to dance to this song.
• Loudness: The higher the value, the louder the song.
• Valence: The higher the value, the more positive mood for the song.
• Length: The duration of the song.
• Acoustic: The higher the value the more acoustic the song is.
• Speechiness: The higher the value the more spoken words the song contains
• Popularity: The higher the value the more popular the song is.

Acknowledgements

This data is extracted from the Spotify playlist - Top 2000s on PlaylistMachinery(@plamere) using Selenium with Python. More specifically, it was scraped from http://sortyourmusic.playlistmachinery.com/. Thanks to Paul for providing a free and open source to extract features and do cool stuff with your Spotify playlists!

Inspiration

This is a very fun dataset to explore and find out unique links which land songs in the Top 2000s. With this dataset, I wanted to be able to answer some questions like:

1. Which genres were more popular coming through 1950s to 2000s?
2. Songs of which genre mostly saw themselves landing in the Top 2000s?
3. Which artists were more likely to make a top song?
4. Songs containing which words are more popular?
5. What is the average tempo of songs compared over the years?
6. Is there a trend of acoustic songs being popular back in 1960s than they are now?
7. Is there a trend in genres preferred back in the day vs now? ... and a lot more.

What is the data?

The datasets contain the top songs from the said era or year accordingly (as presented in the name of each dataset). Note that only the KPopHits90s dataset represents an era (1989-2001). Although there is a lack of easily available and reliable sources to show the actual K-Pop hits per year during the 90s, this era was still included as this time period was when the first generation of K-Pop stars appeared. Each of the other datasets represent a specific year after the 90s.

How was it obtained?

A song is considered to be a K-Pop hit during that era or year if it is included in the annual series of K-Pop Hits playlists, which is created officially by Apple Music. Note that for the dataset that represents the 90s, the playlist 90s K-Pop Essentials was used as the reference.

1. These playlists were transferred into Spotify through the Tune My Music site. After transferring, the site also presented all the missing songs from each Spotify playlist when compared to the original Apple Music playlists.
   • Any data besides the names and artists of the hit songs were not directly obtained from Apple Music since these other details of songs in this music service are only available for those enrolled as members of the Apple Developer Program.
2. The presented missing songs from each playlist was manually searched and, if found, added to the respective Spotify playlist.
   • For the songs that were found, there are three types: (1) the song by the original artist, (2) the instrumental of the original song and (3) a cover of the song. When the first type is not found, the two other types are searched and are compared to each other. The one that sounded the most like the original song (from the Apple Music playlist) is chosen as the substitute in the Spotify playlist.
   • Presented is a link containing all the missing data per playlist (when the initial Spotify playlists were compared to the original Apple Music playlists) and the action done to each one.
3. The necessary identification details and specific audio features of each track were obtained through the use of the Spotipy library and Spotify Web API documentation.

Why did you make this?

As someone who has a particular curiosity to the field of data science and a genuine love for the musicality in the K-Pop scene, this data set was created to make something out of the strong interest I have for these separate subjects.

Acknowledgements

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Apple Music for creating the annual K-Pop playlists, Spotify for making their API very accessible, Spotipy for making it easier to get the desired data from the Spotify Web API, Tune My Music for automating the process of transferring one's library into another service's library and, of course, all those involved in the making of these songs and artists included in these datasets for creating such high quality music and concepts digestible even for the general public.

Analysis of ‘K-Pop Hits Through The Years’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/sberj127/kpop-hits-through-the-years on 12 November 2021.

--- Dataset description provided by original source is as follows ---

What is the data?

The datasets contain the top songs from the said era or year accordingly (as presented in the name of each dataset). Note that only the KPopHits90s dataset represents an era (1989-2001). Although there is a lack of easily available and reliable sources to show the actual K-Pop hits per year during the 90s, this era was still included as this time period was when the first generation of K-Pop stars appeared. Each of the other datasets represent a specific year after the 90s.

How was it obtained?

A song is considered to be a K-Pop hit during that era or year if it is included in the annual series of K-Pop Hits playlists, which is created officially by Apple Music. Note that for the dataset that represents the 90s, the playlist 90s K-Pop Essentials was used as the reference.

1. These playlists were transferred into Spotify through the Tune My Music site. After transferring, the site also presented all the missing songs from each Spotify playlist when compared to the original Apple Music playlists.
   • Any data besides the names and artists of the hit songs were not directly obtained from Apple Music since these other details of songs in this music service are only available for those enrolled as members of the Apple Developer Program.
2. The presented missing songs from each playlist was manually searched and, if found, added to the respective Spotify playlist.
   • For the songs that were found, there are three types: (1) the song by the original artist, (2) the instrumental of the original song and (3) a cover of the song. When the first type is not found, the two other types are searched and are compared to each other. The one that sounded the most like the original song (from the Apple Music playlist) is chosen as the substitute in the Spotify playlist.
   • Presented is a link containing all the missing data per playlist (when the initial Spotify playlists were compared to the original Apple Music playlists) and the action done to each one.
3. The necessary identification details and specific audio features of each track were obtained through the use of the Spotipy library and Spotify Web API documentation.

Why did you make this?

As someone who has a particular curiosity to the field of data science and a genuine love for the musicality in the K-Pop scene, this data set was created to make something out of the strong interest I have for these separate subjects.

Acknowledgements

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Apple Music for creating the annual K-Pop playlists, Spotify for making their API very accessible, Spotipy for making it easier to get the desired data from the Spotify Web API, Tune My Music for automating the process of transferring one's library into another service's library and, of course, all those involved in the making of these songs and artists included in these datasets for creating such high quality music and concepts digestible even for the general public.

--- Original source retains full ownership of the source dataset ---

Analysis of ‘Spotify Past Decades Songs Attributes’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/cnic92/spotify-past-decades-songs-50s10s on 28 January 2022.

--- Dataset description provided by original source is as follows ---

Context

Why do we like some songs more than others? Is there something about a song that pleases out subconscious, making us listening to it on repeat? To understand this I collected various attributes from a selection of songs available in the Spotify's playlist "All out ..s" starting from the 50s up to the newly ended 10s. Can you find the secret sauce to make a song popular?

Content

This data repo contains 7 datasets (.csv files), each representing a Spotify's "All out ..s" type of playlist. Those playlists collect the most popular/iconic songs from the decade. For each song, a set of attributes have been reported in order to perform some data analysis. The attributes have been scraped from this amazing website. In particular, according to the website the attributes are:

• top genre: genre of the song
• year: year of the song (due to re-releases, the year might not correspond to the release year of the original song)
• bpm(beats per minute): beats per minute
• nrgy(energy): energy of a song, the higher the value the more energetic the song is
• dnce(danceability): the higher the value, the easier it is to dance to this song.
• dB(loudness): the higher the value, the louder the song.
• live(liveness): the higher the value, the more likely the song is a live recording.
• val(valence): the higher the value, the more positive mood for the song.
• dur(duration): the duration of the song.
• acous(acousticness): the higher the value the more acoustic the song is.
• spch(speechiness): the higher the value the more spoken word the song contains.
• pop(popularity): the higher the value the more popular the song is.

Acknowledgements

I got inspired by the top-notch work by Leonardo Henrique in this dataset. Thanks to him I discovered this website, from which all the data collected here have been scraped.

--- Original source retains full ownership of the source dataset ---

Context

This is a dataset consisting of features for tracks fetched using Spotify's Web API. The tracks are labeled '1' or '0' ('Hit' or 'Flop') depending on some criteria of the author. This dataset can be used to make a classification model that predicts whether a track would be a 'Hit' or not.

(Note: The author does not objectively considers a track inferior, bad or a failure if its labeled 'Flop'. 'Flop' here merely implies that it is a track that probably could not be considered popular in the mainstream.)

Here's an implementation of this idea in the form of a website that I made. http://www.hitpredictor.in/

I did not use this specific dataset, but a smaller version of it.

Content

Here's the scripts that I used to construct this dataset. The repo is very messy, so warnings ahead:

https://github.com/fortyTwo102/hitpredictor-decade-util

For further reading: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/tracks/get-audio-features/

- track: The Name of the track.

- artist: The Name of the Artist.

- uri: The resource identifier for the track.

- danceability: Danceability describes how suitable a track is for dancing based on a combination of musical elements including tempo, rhythm stability, beat strength, and overall regularity. A value of 0.0 is least danceable and 1.0 is most danceable. 

- energy: Energy is a measure from 0.0 to 1.0 and represents a perceptual measure of intensity and activity. Typically, energetic tracks feel fast, loud, and noisy. For example, death metal has high energy, while a Bach prelude scores low on the scale. Perceptual features contributing to this attribute include dynamic range, perceived loudness, timbre, onset rate, and general entropy. 

- key: The estimated overall key of the track. Integers map to pitches using standard Pitch Class notation. E.g. 0 = C, 1 = C?/D?, 2 = D, and so on. If no key was detected, the value is -1.

- loudness: The overall loudness of a track in decibels (dB). Loudness values are averaged across the entire track and are useful for comparing relative loudness of tracks. Loudness is the quality of a sound that is the primary psychological correlate of physical strength (amplitude). Values typical range between -60 and 0 db. 

- mode: Mode indicates the modality (major or minor) of a track, the type of scale from which its melodic content is derived. Major is represented by 1 and minor is 0.

- speechiness: Speechiness detects the presence of spoken words in a track. The more exclusively speech-like the recording (e.g. talk show, audio book, poetry), the closer to 1.0 the attribute value. Values above 0.66 describe tracks that are probably made entirely of spoken words. Values between 0.33 and 0.66 describe tracks that may contain both music and speech, either in sections or layered, including such cases as rap music. Values below 0.33 most likely represent music and other non-speech-like tracks. 

- acousticness: A confidence measure from 0.0 to 1.0 of whether the track is acoustic. 1.0 represents high confidence the track is acoustic. The distribution of values for this feature look like this:

- instrumentalness: Predicts whether a track contains no vocals. “Ooh” and “aah” sounds are treated as instrumental in this context. Rap or spoken word tracks are clearly “vocal”. The closer the instrumentalness value is to 1.0, the greater likelihood the track contains no vocal content. Values above 0.5 are intended to represent instrumental tracks, but confidence is higher as the value approaches 1.0. The distribution of values for this feature look like this:

- liveness: Detects the presence of an audience in the recording. Higher liveness values represent an increased probability that the track was performed live. A value above 0.8 provides strong likelihood that the track is live.

- valence: A measure from 0.0 to 1.0 describing the musical positiveness conveyed by a track. Tracks with high valence sound more positive (e.g. happy, cheerful, euphoric), while tracks with low valence sound more negative (e.g. sad, depressed, angry).

- tempo: The overall estimated tempo of a track in beats per minute (BPM). In musical terminology, tempo is the speed or pace of a given piece and derives directly from the average beat duration. 

- duration_ms: The duration of the track in milliseconds.

- time_signature: An estimated overall time signature of a track. The time signature (meter) is a notational convention to specify how many beats are in each bar (or measure).

- chorus_hit: This the the author's best estimate of when the chorus would start for the track. Its the timestamp of the start of the third section of the track. This feature was extracted from the data received by the API call for Audio Analysis of that particular track.

- sections: The number of sections the particular track has....

The most successful music streaming service in the United States was Apple Music as of September, with the most up to date information showing that 49.5 million users accessed the platform each month. Spotify closely followed, with a similarly impressive 47.7 million monthly users.

What is a music streaming service?

Music streaming services provide their users with a database compiled of songs, playlists, albums and videos, where content can be accessed online, downloaded, shared, bookmarked and organized.

The music streaming business is huge, and has sometimes been lauded as the savior of the music industry. The biggest two services are in constant competition for the monopoly of the market. Apple Music was launched in 2015, whereas Spotify has been around since 2008. Other popular streaming services include Deezer, SoundCloud and iHeartRadio.

Do artists make a lot of money from streaming services? 

In short, unfortunately not. Both Apple Music and Spotify have been frequently criticized for the tiny royalty payments they offer artists. Particularly for emerging talent, streaming services are far from a lucrative source of income. Bigger, established stars like Taylor Swift are more likely to regularly make a good amount of money this way. But either way, a track needs to go viral or be streamed several million times before it earns any real cash.