Music Lyrics and Audio Features from 1950 to 2019

Lyrics and metadata for songs spanning 70 years from 1950 to 2019. The dataset includes features such as sadness, danceability, loudness, and acousticness. It was published on Mendeley Data in 2020 by authors Moura, Luan; Fontelles, Emanuel; Sampaio, Vinicius; Frana, Mardnio.

Use Cases

• Analyze musical sentiment trends over time based on the 'sadness' feature mentioned in the description.
• Train models to predict audio features like 'danceability' or 'acousticness' from lyrical text.
• Perform temporal analysis of lyrical themes and audio characteristics across decades from 1950 to 2019.
• Build multimodal recommendation systems using combined metadata and natural language features of songs.

Strengths

• Covers a 70-year time range from 1950 to 2019, enabling long-term trend analysis.
• Includes multiple audio feature dimensions such as sadness, danceability, loudness, and acousticness.
• Provides lyrical text suitable for natural language processing tasks.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Mendeley Data, V3, doi: 10.17632/3t9vbwxgr5.3

Time Range

1950 to 2019