Rise and fall of music genres

[raschuetz]

It's always fun to see what genres are in the top hits. I think it'd be interesting to chart the rise and fall of music genres and annotate people who were at the beginning of genre's popularity. Has technology made today's tastes more diverse? The LA Times has one, but I don't think it's the best (you can't see it at once and it only goes through 2010).

Billboard has an archive of the top 100 lists, so that could help find the popular music (there's also an unofficial API I haven't taken a look at), and I know Spotify lists genres. It would be cool if I could find something with liner notes as well, so I could annotate popular songwriters/producers that contribute to the rise of a genre as well.

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[honjy]

Great idea using the Billboard archive. I think I'd limit the number of genres on the chart so it'd be easier to see. The LA Times piece was pretty messy. Otherwise it's going to be a fun story, and could be even cooler (like attach YouTube video links) if we knew how to make it interactive!

[radhikapc]

Nice ! I would suggest you check Google analytics for data on genre. Google provides pretty good data set in CSV format. I would love to see the function you have written to plot the graph :-)

[raschuetz]

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Closing pitch since story has been opened at #71

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