Data-Driven Artist Recommendation and Trend Analysis
November 2024
This project uses social and listening data to build a music recommendation system. By analyzing user-artist interactions, it generates personalized recommendations, computes artist similarity, and uncovers listening trends.
Tools: Python, NumPy, Pandas, Plotly
Techniques: Data Cleaning, aggregation, Statistics, Exploratory Data Analysis
Introduction
As an abundant music fan, I have always been intrigued with music recommendation systems when using platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music. This data analysis project uses the 2011 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems dataset to analyze music trends and artist recommendations based on artist and user trends. These are simple queries built using coding and analysis techniques, check out my code to learn more.
What artists have the most listeners?
Artist ID Listeners
Lady Gaga 89 611
Britney Spears 289 522
Rihanna 288 484
The Beatles 227 480
Katy Perry 300 473
Madonna 67 429
Avril Lavigne 333 417
Christina Aguilera 292 407
Muse 190 400
Paramore 498 399
Who are the top artists in terms of play counts?
Artist ID Count
Britney Spears 289 2393140
Depeche Mode 72 1301308
Lady Gaga 89 1291387
Christina Aguilera 292 1058405
Paramore 498 963449
Madonna 67 921198
Rihanna 288 905423
Shakira 701 688529
The Beatles 227 662116
Katy Perry 300 532545
Artist ID listeners weight average plays per listener
Depeche Mode 72 282 1301308 4615.0
Britney Spears 289 522 2393140 4585.0
In Flames 503 67 237148 3540.0
Duran Duran 51 111 348919 3143.0
All Time Low 687 77 215777 2802.0
Blur 203 114 318221 2791.0
U2 511 185 493024 2665.0
Christina Aguilera 292 407 1058405 2601.0
Paramore 498 399 963449 2415.0
Evanescence 378 226 513476 2272.0What artists with at least 50 listeners have the highest average number of plays per listener?
Artist ID listeners weight average listeners
Viking Quest 8388 1 35323 35323.0
Tyler Adam 6373 1 30614 30614.0
Rytmus 18121 1 23462 23462.0
Johnny Hallyday 8308 2 32995 16498.0
Dicky Dixon 14986 1 15345 15345.0
RICHARD DIXON-COMPOSER 14987 1 14082 14082.0
Thalía 792 26 350035 13463.0
80kidz 15075 1 12520 12520.0
Tribraco 4625 1 10776 10776.0
Kontrafakt 18122 1 10726 10726.0What artists have the highest average number of plays per listener?
How similar are two artists?
The Rolling Stones and The Who : 0.24581005586592178 The Rolling Stones and Lady Gaga : 0.01643835616438356 The Rolling Stones and Britney Spears : 0.013975155279503106 Lady Gaga and Britney Spears : 0.6255380200860832 Lady Gaga and Madonna : 0.4246575342465753 Madonna and The Rolling Stones : 0.029411764705882353
Recommend artists based on two friends
ID Artist average listeners
1104 Rammstein 18478.000000
511 U2 6611.750000
159 The Cure 4155.200000
285 Janet Jackson 3499.000000
1001 Pet Shop Boys 3432.666667
289 Britney Spears 3120.000000
874 Roxy Music 2740.500000
2562 Arcadia 2594.000000
190 Muse 2547.500000
2552 Culture Club 2361.500000