This is absolutely an arbitrary cut-off, but it a) left me with a more manageable dataset of only 5800 artists, and b) insured that each artist was truly popular, ie, a hit. I was able to use this to gather listening data for over 7 million songs! What is a Spotify one hit wonder?įor all the following analyses, I chose to only look at artists with more than 100 million total plays. Spotify doesn’t provide this, but a hero on Github put together an API to cull play counts from the Spotify desktop client. Next, I had to get listening data for every song by every artist on my list. My final data set was well over 180,000 records, but I brought it down to about 40,000 by removing artists with fewer than 1000 total followers. This left me with a list of 5000-odd records, of which only a couple dozen weren’t in my first batch of records derived from Kaggle. Then, for each of those artists, I found the top 20 related artists, and so on for 5 rounds. I took each artist from these playlists, and found their top 20 related artists. To cover all my bases, though, I manually gathered a list of about 20 “One Hit Wonder” playlists from the Spotify UI. After removing duplicates, I had about 180,000 records, and all the artists I could think of were represented in the dataset. To fill in these gaps, I used the Spotify API to gather the top 20 related artists for each artist on the list. It was a pretty good start, but a quick ctrl+F showed that it was missing quite a few artists I thought of off the top of my head. I gathered this from two main sources.įirst, I downloaded this list of approximately 80,000 artists from Kaggle. To get started, I needed a comprehensive list of artists on Spotify. I chose Spotify because I’m familiar with the API and the service, and because of the really excellent SpotifyR R package, which made all the data gathering programmatically trivial. For this analysis, I was interested in something a bit different–what are the biggest one hit wonders as defined by current listening data? In other words, what songs make up the highest percentage of an artist’s total plays on a streaming service like Spotify? Data Gathering Most one-hit wonder analyses focus on the time the song spent on the charts, and whether the artist ever charted again.
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