340,000+ weekly chart entries documenting every song on the Billboard Hot 100 from August 1958 through the current year. The records categorize music performance by rank, artist, and song columns across more than six decades of US music history.
Use Cases
- Analyze artist longevity by counting the frequency of specific values in the artist column across the entire timeline
- Model the trajectory of hit songs by tracking changes in the rank column over consecutive date entries
- Identify historical shifts in music popularity by grouping values in the song column by the date column
Strengths
- Covers over 3,400 consecutive weeks of music chart data starting from August 1958
- Includes weekly rank, song, and artist columns for every entry
- Contains over 340,000 rows of historical music performance data