Spotify Top Tracks of 2017
Project for DS 4100
Proposal
The data set that I’ll be investigating for my project is the top spotify tracks of 2017. At the end of each year, Spotify compiles a playlist of songs with the most streams over the course of that year. The playlist for 2017, “Top Tracks of 2017: USA”, includes 100 songs. Spotify Web API provides some very interesting audio features for each song. For example: acousticness, danceability, energy, instrumentalness, tempo, etc.
I want to investigate this data and try to determine correlations and trends between these different audio features. In addition to finding patterns in the audio features of these tracks, I also want to try to predict one audio feature based on the others. What do these songs have in common? What makes them so popular?