Lrclib: Lyrics for 12.7 Million Music Tracks

Lyrics for 12,751,073 music tracks were sourced from a database dump of LRCLIB on March 19, 2025. The dataset was uploaded by user ernestchu to Hugging Face and last updated on May 1, 2025. It is intended for text-based analysis and natural language processing tasks.

Use Cases

• Train lyric generation models based on the large collection of song lyrics.
• Perform sentiment analysis on song lyrics to study emotional trends in music.
• Conduct linguistic analysis of songwriting styles and vocabulary across genres.
• Build music recommendation systems using lyrical content as a feature.
• Study the evolution of language and themes in popular music over time.

Strengths

• Contains a large volume of 12,751,073 lyric tracks.
• Sourced directly from the LRCLIB platform, suggesting a primary collection of lyrics.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is known, but the specific features and structure of each record are unknown.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

LRCLIB

Collection Method

Constructed from a database dump from LRCLIB on 2025/03/19.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-05-01 01:08:45; freshness should be verified.