2021 TikTok Music Trends Data
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This dataset offers a focused analysis of the most popular songs on TikTok throughout 2021. It provides essential information for a deeper understanding of musical trends on the platform, encompassing basic track and artist details alongside advanced audio features such as tempo, time signature, danceability, and energy. It is designed to facilitate detailed musical and social network analysis.
Columns
- track_name: The title of the musical track.
- artist_name: The name of the artist performing the track.
- artist_pop: A numerical indicator of the artist's popularity.
- album: The name of the album to which the track belongs.
- track_pop: A numerical indicator of the track's popularity.
- danceability: Measures how suitable a track is for dancing, from 0.0 (least danceable) to 1.0 (most danceable), based on tempo, rhythm stability, beat strength, and regularity.
- energy: Represents the perceptual intensity and activity of a track, ranging from 0.0 to 1.0. Higher values suggest a fast, loud, and noisy feel.
- loudness: The overall loudness of the track in decibels (dB), averaged across the entire piece, typically ranging from -60 to 0 dB.
- mode: Indicates the modality (major or minor) of the track's melodic content, with 1 for major and 0 for minor.
- key: The key of the track, mapped to standard Pitch Class notation (e.g., 0 = C, 1 = C♯/D♭). A value of -1 means no key was detected.
- speechiness: Detects the presence of spoken words. Values above 0.66 likely indicate entirely spoken word tracks, 0.33 to 0.66 suggest mixed speech and music, and below 0.33 primarily represent music.
- acousticness: A confidence measure from 0.0 to 1.0 indicating how acoustic the track is; 1.0 signifies high confidence in its acoustic nature.
- instrumentalness: Predicts whether a track contains no vocals. Values above 0.5 suggest instrumental tracks, with higher confidence closer to 1.0.
- liveness: Detects the presence of an audience. A value above 0.8 strongly suggests a live performance.
- valence: Measures the musical positiveness conveyed by a track, from 0.0 (negative, e.g., sad) to 1.0 (positive, e.g., happy).
- tempo: The estimated speed of the track in beats per minute (BPM).
- time_signature: An estimated time signature, ranging from 3 to 7, indicating time signatures like "3/4" to "7/4".
- duration_ms: The length of the track in milliseconds.
Distribution
The dataset is provided in CSV format and includes 18 distinct columns with 190 records. The file size is 22.99 kB. No records are mismatched or missing.
Usage
This dataset is ideal for:
- Analysing music trends and popularity on social media platforms.
- Developing recommendation systems for music.
- Studying the audio features that contribute to a song's virality.
- Musicology research and social media content strategy.
- Identifying patterns in artist and track popularity.
Coverage
This dataset focuses exclusively on popular songs on TikTok during the year 2021. It captures musical content that gained traction on the platform within that specific time frame, reflecting global trends.
License
CC0: Public Domain
Who Can Use It
- Music Researchers: For academic studies on music trends, audio characteristics, and social media impact.
- Data Scientists: To build predictive models for song popularity or recommendation engines.
- Content Creators & Marketers: To understand what type of music resonates on TikTok for strategy development.
- Social Media Analysts: To monitor and analyse musical patterns on leading social platforms.
- Developers: For integrating music trend data into applications.
Dataset Name Suggestions
- TikTok 2021 Popular Tracks
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- TikTok Audio Features 2021
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Attributes
Original Data Source: 2021 TikTok Music Trends Data