Music genres are difficult to define. This project attempts to identify the primarcy characteristics of various genres using data from the Spotify API.
- Create list of genres to test
- For a given genre, find the top artists (exact number TBD)
- Will probably use the last.fm API for this
- For a given artist, find their top songs (exact number TBD)
- For a given song, find its "audio features" from the Spotify API
- Determine the mean and medians of the audio features for each genre's hit songs
- Compare those means and medians for various genres
- Weight artists and songs by popularity (e.g. the genre's most popular artist will "count" more than a less popular artist)