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Hit Song Prediction Based on Early Adopter Data and Audio Features

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Abstract

Billions of USD are invested in new artists and songs by the music industry every year. This research provides a new strategy for assessing the hit potential of songs, which can help record companies support their investment decisions. A number of models were developed that use both audio data, and a novel feature based on social media listening behaviour. The results show that models based on early adopter behaviour perform well when predicting top 20 dance hits.

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@article{arxiv.2010.09489,
  title  = {Hit Song Prediction Based on Early Adopter Data and Audio Features},
  author = {Dorien Herremans and Tom Bergmans},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.09489},
  year   = {2020}
}
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