Over the past 50 years, the lyrics of popular songs in the U.S. have become simpler, more negative, and contain more stress-related words, according to an analysis published in Scientific Reports. The ...

Can we quantify different features of music? Apparently yes; folks at Spotify have identified and measured songs’ features like danceability, accoustiness, valence, energy, pitchiness, and more. In ...

An analysis of over 30,000 Spotify songs using Python statistical models found that danceability, loudness, and valence are strong positive predictors of popularity, while high energy, speechiness, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about mathematics. Here's how they did it. Stylometry, a technique for analyzing songs - and identifying the Unabomber The ...