Data

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Our data set consists of roughly 5400 songs from 1958-2015 that were on the year-end Billboard Top 100 list, giving us a set of popular and significant songs spread out over the time that the GRAMMYs have been contested. For each song, we collected information on 23 different attributes:

• General information (year of release, genre, and song duration)

• Measures of popularity (Spotify popularity; Last.fm followers of the artist, listeners to the song, and play count of the song)

• Characteristics of lyrics (word count, Flesch reading ease, and the positivity and subjectivity of the lyrics)

• Characteristics of music, as calculated by Spotify (key, major/minor modality, and time signature; danceability, energy, tempo, and loudness; speechiness, acousticness, instrumentalness, and liveness; and the positivity of the music)