The most "danceable" song on the top 100 list, according to Spotify, is Drake's "Hotline Bling", the highest dot on the graph above. As valence increases, so does danceability. Other than a few outliers, valence and danceability appear to have a moderate, positive correlation with one another. Each dot belowrepresents a song by one of the artists with more than one song on the list. My prediction is that the two features will have a positive correlation with one another. In order to better understand the relationship between these two seemingly arbitrary measurements, I plotted a scatterplot that examines the correlation between the two variables. A value of 0.0 is least danceable and 1.0 is most danceable. "Danceability" refers to how suitable a track is for dancing based on a combination of musical elements. The metric is measured on a scale from 0.0 to 1.0. Spotify uses the word “valence” to measure whether a song is likely to make someone feel happy (higher valence) or sad (lower valence). In the context of songs that just about everyone knows, how alike are these categories with one another? First, I examined the correlation between valence and danceability. These are categories that directly refer to innate human emotions. Out of all of the categories on Spotify's API, I am most interested in valence, danceability, energy and speechiness. To look at Spotify's explanations behind their metrics, click here. When a song fits a certain amount of criteria based on user feedback, a new song will appear on a customer's "discover weekly" playlist. Categories include: danceability, energy, key, valence, acousticness, instrumentalness, liveness and tempo. The company does this by classifying songs into different categories. One of Spotify's most effective tools is its ability to recommend songs to its users based on previous choices. The Weeknd found incredible success with his third studio album, "Starboy", which has two songs on the list featuring Daft Punk as well as three songs from his sophomore album, "Beauty Behind the Madness." Ed Sheeran, with four songs on the list, has the most streamed song of all time, "Shape of You." How Does Spotify Classify Songs? With five songs on the list, The Weeknd narrowly edges out Ed Sheeran and Imagine Dragons as the most common artist found on the list. To get a better sense of the distribution of songs over time on the Top 100 list, I graphed the frequency of songs per year. All of the Spotify numbers used in this report are accurate as of May 2, 2018. This table organizes the most streamed songs on Spotify of all time. Click here for the latest version of the most streamed songs on Spotify. The Most Streamed Songs of All TimeĪlong with its extensive song metrics, Spotify records the total amount of plays or streams that one track accumulates. Is there something that links popular music together? How likely are popular songs to be classified as happy or sad? Do artists with higher stream numbers on their songs have similar classifications on Spotify? I think that popular artists will have happier and more upbeat songs that will reflect in Spotify's audio categories. The company uses various audio features to classify all of the complexities found in a song into universal categories, mainly for the purpose of predicting a user's tastes. Spotify's ability to suggest songs based on my previous plays is exceptional. As a stingy college student, it's one of the few online subscriptions that I'm willing to pay a recurring fee for myself.įor this project, I wanted to look at the common features between popular songs on Spotify. I have had a Spotify account for many years. With 70 million subscribers and counting, Spotify is the world's largest music streaming service.
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