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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…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Ioannis Dimolitsas , Spyridon Kantarelis , Afroditi Fouka

This study approached the Hit Song Science problem with the aim of predicting which songs in the Afrobeats genre will become popular among Spotify listeners. A dataset of 2063 songs was generated through the Spotify Web API, with the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Adewale Adeagbo

Spotify's streaming charts offer a real-time lens into music popularity, driving discovery, playlists, and even revenue potential. Understanding what influences a song's rise in ranks on these charts-especially early on-can guide marketing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ian Jacob Cabansag , Paul Ntegeka

Hit song prediction, one of the emerging fields in music information retrieval (MIR), remains a considerable challenge. Being able to understand what makes a given song a hit is clearly beneficial to the whole music industry. Previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Mengyisong Zhao , Morgan Harvey , David Cameron , Frank Hopfgartner , Valerie J. Gillet

Music popularity prediction has garnered significant attention in both industry and academia, fuelled by the rise of data-driven algorithms and streaming platforms like Spotify. This study aims to explore the predictive power of various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Niklas Sebastian , Jung , Florian Mayer

A model for hit song prediction can be used in the pop music industry to identify emerging trends and potential artists or songs before they are marketed to the public. While most previous work formulates hit song prediction as a regression…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-31 Lang-Chi Yu , Yi-Hsuan Yang , Yun-Ning Hung , Yi-An Chen

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…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Dorien Herremans , Tom Bergmans

Hosting about 50 million songs and 4 billion playlists, there is an enormous amount of data generated at Spotify every single day - upwards of 600 gigabytes of data (harvard.edu). Since the algorithms that Spotify uses in recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chhavi Maheshwari

In the digital streaming landscape, it's becoming increasingly challenging for artists and industry experts to predict the success of music tracks. This study introduces a pioneering methodology that uses Convolutional Neural Networks…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Navid Falah , Behnam Yousefimehr , Mehdi Ghatee

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts. For the current generation, one of the most relevant pop charts is the Spotify Top 200. Spotify is the world's largest music streaming service and the Top 200 is a daily list of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Michelangelo Harris , Brian Liu , Cean Park , Ravi Ramireddy , Gloria Ren , Max Ren , Shangdi Yu , Andrew Daw , Jamol Pender

Artificial Intelligence (AI ) has been very successful in creating and predicting music playlists for online users based on their data; data received from users experience using the app such as searching the songs they like. There are lots…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Marissa Baxter , Lisa Ha , Kirill Perfiliev , Natalie Sayre

Record companies invest billions of dollars in new talent around the globe each year. Gaining insight into what actually makes a hit song would provide tremendous benefits for the music industry. In this research we tackle this question by…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Dorien herremans , David Martens , Kenneth Sörensen

The advent of digital streaming platforms have recently revolutionized the landscape of music industry, with the ensuing digitalization providing structured data collections that open new research avenues for investigating popularity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Christos Mountzouris

Being able to predict whether a song can be a hit has impor- tant applications in the music industry. Although it is true that the popularity of a song can be greatly affected by exter- nal factors such as social and commercial influences,…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Li-Chia Yang , Szu-Yu Chou , Jen-Yu Liu , Yi-Hsuan Yang , Yi-An Chen

In this paper a system that took 8th place in Million Song Dataset challenge is described. Given full listening history for 1 million of users and half of listening history for 110000 users participatints should predict the missing half.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Nikolay Glazyrin

Accurately predicting music popularity is a critical challenge in the music industry, offering benefits to artists, producers, and streaming platforms. Prior research has largely focused on audio features, social metadata, or model…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yash Choudhary , Preeti Rao , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Since the creation of the Billboard Hot 100 music chart in 1958, the chart has been a window into the music consumption of Americans. Which songs succeed on the chart is decided by consumption volumes, which can be affected by consumer…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-14 Marta Ewa Lech , Sune Lehmann , Jonas L. Juul

The music industry is a $130 billion industry. Predicting whether a song catches the pulse of the audience impacts the industry. In this paper we analyze language inside the lyrics of the songs using several computational linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Vivek Datla , Abhinav Vishnu

In this work, we study the association between song lyrics and mood through a data-driven analysis. Our data set consists of nearly one million songs, with song-mood associations derived from user playlists on the Spotify streaming…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Shahrzad Naseri , Sravana Reddy , Joana Correia , Jussi Karlgren , Rosie Jones

Music genre can be hard to describe: many factors are involved, such as style, music technique, and historical context. Some genres even have overlapping characteristics. Looking for a better understanding of how music genres are related to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Bruna D. Wundervald , Walmes M. Zeviani
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