We will analyze the top 200 listened-to songs on Spotify for each week in 2018 to find if sad songs (valence < 0.4) are generally listened to in greater frequency throughout certain periods during the year.
Spotify Valence Attributes Information
| feature_name | description | type_of_data | range (numerical only) | possible values (categorical only, # of possibilities) | may contain multiple values (categorical only) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| position | Ranking among weekly top 200 songs | numerical | 1 - 200 | - | - |
| track_name | Song name | categorical | - | 463 | no |
| artist | Alphabetical first artist listed for the song | categorical | - | 231 | no |
| streams | The number of streams this song had | numerical | 1196048 - 23636303 | - | - |
| top_week | Which week this song belongs too | numerical | 1 - 52 | - | - |
| top_year | What year it was when it was in the top 200 | numerical | 2017 - 2018 | - | - |
| top_month | What month it was when it was in the top 200 | numerical | 1 - 12 | - | - |
| top_first_day | What is the first day of the week range when it was in the top 200 | numerical | 1 - 31 | - | - |
| valence | A value Spotify has assigned songs to rate their sentiment as positive or negative | numerical | 0.0499 - 0.979 | - | - |
| release_year | The year this song was released | numerical | 1936 - 2020 | - | - |
| release_month | The month this song was released | numerical | 1 - 12 | - | - |
| release_day | The day this song was released | numerical | 1 - 31 | - | - |
| Total Features = 12 |
Songs removed from analysis
| song_count | reason |
|---|---|
| 1753 | Spotify song was not present in Kaggle data set |
| 3470 | Was a top song too soon after release date (< 3 months) |