Visualizing Michael Jackson's Earnings 1979-2015

[M0nica]

Inspiration: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2016/03/08/brilliant-data-visualization-brings-the-history-of-hip-hop-to-life/#7f48ca5a2213

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/kevinmurnane/files/2016/03/2pac-song-list.jpg

http://dandenney.com/tinkerings/spotify-top-100 http://poly-graph.co/billboard/ Date Source :

Billboard API no longer exists :( https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Why-did-Billboard-com-close-its-developer-platform

https://github.com/guoguo12/billboard-charts may work to access data

I need help finding historical data which Spotify does not seem to store.

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[M0nica]

Pause this. Need to find adequate historical data source.

[spm2164]

You might try the http://www.riaa.com/ They track album sales each year, and are actually the people who give out the "gold" and "platinum" albums when sales reach certain thresholds.

[palrogg]

So sad Billboard closed its API!!

Maybe this could help:

• scrape this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hot_100_Airplay_number-one_singles_of_the_2010s
• use on of the Wikimedia API? They are very good but I'm not sure you can actually use it to gather appropriate data about songs or artists (Action API, REST API)

[sz2472]

Not sure if this is what you are looking for: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/music/research/abigdatahistoryofmusic/home.aspx

And another example that might give you some idea: http://polygraph.cool/history/

[M0nica]

oo I found this cool visualization -> http://poly-graph.co/punk/ on the website that you shared @sz2472

[jsoma]

I spent a million years just now searching for alternative data sources, and it seems like unless you have a few hundred thousand dollars to give Nielsen SoundScan it's going to be tough! The guoguo12 one you linked is a scraper that acts like an official API that can at least get you top 100, so I guess it depends on what you'd like to use as your measure of popularity.

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[snajmabadi]

I like the idea of this project, and I'm excited to see what you find out. It sounds like the biggest challenge is the data, so far. Maybe you could use data from Spotify's API or maybe this one? http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/#s%3Atupac

[mercye]

Even though there isn't really historical data for TuPac's popularity, it could still be interesting to manually plot appearances on billboard top 100 (before his death), and then compare it his popularity today.

[M0nica]

I am pivoting to Michael Jackson because he is one of the most popular/ highest earning artists that is no longer alive and data regarding earnings throughout his career is more complete and legitimate.

[M0nica]