Music research on open data

We study music with data: what tops the charts in different countries, what songs are about, how genres shift and how independent artists live. Every number is computed by code; the data and methodology are open.

researchChart words: what language hits are sung in, and what they are about, in six countriesWe analysed the Shazam top 100 in Russia, Kazakhstan, the US, the UK, Germany and Brazil: which language the hits are sung in, what they are about and how much they repeat.