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YouTube Top Music Artists Performance Metrics
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This data product tracks the performance of top music artists based on their cumulative viewership across all official YouTube channels. It offers insights into which artists dominate the platform, detailing total lifetime views accumulated in millions. YouTube, since its inception in 2005, sees music account for a significant portion of total views, despite being a small percentage of overall content, underscoring the importance of this metric. For example, artists like BTS have accumulated over 26.7 billion views, demonstrating the immense scale of audience engagement captured in this data.
Columns
- Artist: The name of the musical act or performer. This field features 1587 unique entries.
- Total Views: The lifetime total number of views, measured in millions, across all the artist's official YouTube channels. Values range widely, from approximately 201 million up to 27.9 billion (27.9k million).
- 100M: The quantity of videos produced by the artist that have individually surpassed 100 million views.
- Avg: The current average daily view count for all the artist’s videos combined.
Distribution
The dataset is provided in a standard CSV file format (
topyoutube.csv). It contains 4 distinct columns (attributes) and includes 1587 records, with the majority of values being valid and complete, though there is a minor amount of missing data (11%) in the '100M' column. The data structure is tailored for analysis, tracking numerical performance metrics alongside artist identification.Usage
This data is ideal for quantitative market research in the music and entertainment industry. It supports data analytics projects focused on identifying streaming trends, performing exploratory data analysis (EDA), and visualizing social network impact. It can also be used to evaluate the relative success and audience reach of musical artists based on verifiable streaming metrics.
Coverage
The data scopes music artists globally, capturing viewership performance metrics from YouTube's operational history up to the date of data acquisition (which includes figures such as BTS’s record views achieved in August). The focus is purely on views accumulated on official channels. The expected update frequency for this dataset is annually.
License
CC0: Public Domain
Who Can Use It
- Data Analysts: For building models and reports on digital music consumption.
- Music Industry Researchers: To benchmark artist performance and market share on streaming platforms.
- Social Network Analysts: To study massive audience engagement and viral content trends.
- Students: For educational projects involving data visualization and Python analysis.
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Original Data Source: YouTube Top Music Artists Performance Metrics
QUALITY