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SpotHitPy: A Study For ML-Based Song Hit Prediction Using Spotify

Sound 2023-01-20 v1 Machine Learning Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

In this study, we approached the Hit Song Prediction problem, which aims to predict which songs will become Billboard hits. We gathered a dataset of nearly 18500 hit and non-hit songs and extracted their audio features using the Spotify Web API. We test four machine-learning models on our dataset. We were able to predict the Billboard success of a song with approximately 86\% accuracy. The most succesful algorithms were Random Forest and Support Vector Machine.

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@article{arxiv.2301.07978,
  title  = {SpotHitPy: A Study For ML-Based Song Hit Prediction Using Spotify},
  author = {Ioannis Dimolitsas and Spyridon Kantarelis and Afroditi Fouka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.07978},
  year   = {2023}
}
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