🎵 Spotify Data Observatory 🎵

An interactive gallery exploring a century of music data

170,653
Total Tracks Analyzed
1921 - 2020 (99 years)
Time Span
28,680
Unique Artists
2,973
Unique Genres

📈 Music Evolution

Evolution Over Time

How 6 key music characteristics evolved from 1921 to 2020.

Evolution Over Time

Interactive Evolution

Explore music trends interactively with hover details and zoom capabilities.

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🎬 Animated Timeline

Watch music evolution unfold year by year with play/pause controls.

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🔥 Correlation Analysis

Correlation Heatmap

Discover relationships between musical features at a glance.

Correlation Heatmap

Interactive Matrix

Explore correlations interactively with detailed hover information.

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Top Correlations

Discover the strongest relationships between music features.

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🎸 Genre Analysis

Top 25 Genres

Most popular genres ranked by average popularity score.

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🌐 Genre Radar Profiles

Radar chart comparison of top 5 genre characteristics.

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Multi-Feature Dashboard

Comprehensive comparison across multiple musical dimensions.

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💫 Genre Universe

Bubble chart visualization of genre characteristics.

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🎤 Artist Analysis

Top 20 Artists

Most popular artists by average track popularity.

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Artist Feature Scatter

Scatter plot of energy vs danceability for top 50 artists.

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Artist Radar Profiles

Radar chart comparison of top 10 artist musical profiles.

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Artist Feature Heatmap

Comprehensive feature analysis for top 15 artists.

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💃 Scatter & 3D Visualizations

Danceability vs Energy

5000 tracks colored by mood (valence), sized by popularity.

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Acousticness vs Energy

See how the acoustic-to-energy balance shifts over the decades.

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🌀 3D Music Space

Interactive 3D plot of acousticness, energy & danceability.

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🎞️ Animated Bubble Timeline

Watch music evolution through decades with an animated bubble chart.

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Valence vs Tempo

Understand how tempo and mood interplay across tracks.

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📊 Distribution Analysis

Feature Distributions

Statistical distributions of 9 key audio features.

Feature Distributions

🎻 Interactive Violin Plots

Compare feature distributions with violin plots and summary stats.

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Box Plots by Decade

How energy, danceability, valence, and popularity spread over time.

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Tempo Distribution

Detailed analysis of tempo (BPM) distribution with a KDE overlay.

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🎹 Keys & Modes

Breakdown of musical keys alongside the major/minor split.

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⏱️ Temporal Analysis

Song Duration Trends

How the average song length has changed through the decades.

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Popularity Trends

The evolution of average popularity scores from year to year.

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Explicit Content Trends

The rise of explicit tracks as a percentage of content over time.

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🧭 Trends Dashboard

Unified dashboard for energy, danceability, valence, and popularity.

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Tempo Evolution

Tempo trends with moving averages and confidence bands.

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📂 Reports

Summary Report

Average Music Characteristics

  • Danceability 0.5374 (σ=0.1761)
  • Energy 0.4824 (σ=0.2676)
  • Acousticness 0.5021 (σ=0.3760)
  • Valence (Mood) 0.5286 (σ=0.2632)
  • Loudness -11.47 dB (σ=5.70)
  • Tempo 116.9 BPM (σ=30.7)

Top Artists by Popularity

  1. 1. Ritt Momney 93.00
  2. 2. Lele Pons 92.00
  3. 3. Los Legendarios 90.00
  4. 4. Jerry Di 89.00
  5. 5. Emilee 88.00

Key Insights

  • Music has become significantly less acoustic over the century.
  • Energy levels have increased, indicating more energetic modern music.
  • 70.7% of tracks are in major keys, suggesting an overall positive mood.

Musical Key Analysis

  • C
    12.66%
  • G
    12.19%
  • D
    11.03%
  • A
    10.3%
  • F
    9.63%
  • E
    7.58%
  • C#
    7.55%
  • A#
    7.12%
  • G#
    6.3%
  • B
    6.25%
  • F#
    5.12%
  • D#
    4.28%

Temporal Trends

  • Acousticness 0.887 (1921) → 0.220 (2020)
  • Energy 0.232 (1921) → 0.631 (2020)
  • Danceability 0.419 (1921) → 0.693 (2020)

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