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In this work, we attempt to solve the Hit Song Science problem, which aims to predict which songs will become chart-topping hits. We constructed a dataset with approximately 1.8 million hit and non-hit songs and extracted their audio…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Kai Middlebrook , Kian Sheik

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recommender systems are increasingly used to predict and serve content that aligns with user taste, yet the task of matching new users with relevant content remains a challenge. We consider podcasting to be an emerging medium with rapid…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Zahra Nazari , Christophe Charbuillet , Johan Pages , Martin Laurent , Denis Charrier , Briana Vecchione , Ben Carterette

Is it possible use algorithms to find trends in the history of popular music? And is it possible to predict the characteristics of future music genres? In order to answer these questions, we produced a hand-crafted dataset with the intent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Fabio Celli

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

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

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

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

Our analysis reviews and visualizes the audio features and popularity of songs streamed on Spotify*. Our dataset, downloaded from Kaggle and originally sourced from Spotify API, consists of multiple Excel files containing information…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Virginia Ochi , Ricardo Estrada , Teezal Gaji , Wendy Gadea , Emily Duong

In the age of digital music streaming, playlists on platforms like Spotify have become an integral part of individuals' musical experiences. People create and publicly share their own playlists to express their musical tastes, promote the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Pier Paolo Tricomi , Luca Pajola , Luca Pasa , Mauro Conti

The mood of a song is a highly relevant feature for exploration and recommendation in large collections of music. These collections tend to require automatic methods for predicting such moods. In this work, we show that listening-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-24 Filip Korzeniowski , Oriol Nieto , Matthew McCallum , Minz Won , Sergio Oramas , Erik Schmidt

Afrobeats songs compete for attention on streaming platforms, where chart visibility can influence both revenue and cultural impact. This paper examines whether collaborations help songs remain on the charts longer, using daily Nigeria…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Ian Jacob Cabansag , Paul Ntegeka

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
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