Final Project
Christmas Jingles
With Christmas fast approaching, Mariah Carey’s music begins it’s climb to the top of the chart, with her iconic song “All I Want for Christmas Is You”
In this project, we’ll look into Mariah Carey’s discography, examining how the sentiment and complexity of her lyrics correlate with her streaming metrics on Spotify. Using both structured and unstructured gotten from kaggle and https://www.albumoftheyear.org/ respectively
Descriptive Analysis
| Column Names | Description |
|---|---|
| artist_name | The name of the artist. |
| artist_id | A unique identifier for the artist in the Spotify database. |
| album_id | A unique identifier for the album in the Spotify database. |
| album_type | The type of album (e.g., album, single, EP). |
| album_release_date | The release date of the album (formatted as YYYY-MM-DD). |
| album_release_year | The year the album was released. |
| album_release_date_precision | Indicates how precise the release date is (e.g., “day”, “month”, “year”). |
| danceability | A measure of how suitable the track is for dancing, based on elements like tempo, rhythm stability, and overall beat strength (range: 0.0 to 1.0). |
| energy | A measure of intensity and activity in the track (range: 0.0 to 1.0). |
| key | The key of the track, with 0 representing C, 1 representing C#/Db, 2 representing D, etc. |
| loudness | The overall loudness of the track in decibels (dB). Negative values indicate quieter tracks. |
| mode | A measure of the track’s modality (1 for major, 0 for minor). |
| speechiness | A measure of the presence of spoken words in the track (range: 0.0 to 1.0). |
| acousticness | A measure of how acoustic (non-electric) the track is (range: 0.0 to 1.0). |
| instrumentalness | A measure of how instrumental the track is (range: 0.0 to 1.0). |
| liveness | A measure of the presence of a live audience or recording environment (range: 0.0 to 1.0). |
| valence | A measure of the musical positiveness conveyed by the track (range: 0.0 to 1.0). |
| tempo | The tempo of the track, measured in beats per minute (BPM). |
| track_id | A unique identifier for the track in the Spotify database. |
| analysis_url | The URL to the audio analysis for the track. |
| time_signature | The time signature of the track (e.g., 4/4, 3/4, etc.). |
| disc_number | The disc number of the album (e.g., 1 if it’s the first disc). |
| duration_ms | The duration of the track in milliseconds. |
| explicit | Indicates whether the track contains explicit content (TRUE or FALSE). |
| track_href | The URL for the track’s Spotify page. |
| is_local | Whether the track is available locally (TRUE or FALSE). |
| track_name | The name of the track. |
| track_preview_url | A URL to a preview of the track. |
| track_number | The track number on the album. |
| type | The type of the track (usually “track”). |
| track_uri | A URI identifier for the track. |
| external_urls.spotify | A URL linking to the track on Spotify. |
| album_name | The name of the album the track belongs to. |
| key_name | The name of the key (e.g., “C”, “D#”, etc.). |
| mode_name | The mode of the track, e.g., “major” or “minor”. |
| key_mode | A combination of the key and mode, indicating whether the track is major or minor in a particular key (e.g., “G# minor”). |
Structured Analysis
Loudness of Albums over the years
The average loudness of music has increased over the year due to loudness war, with more recent albums being louder compared to older ones. Over the years music has gotten significantly louder, but I don’t think that will be the cause for Mariah Carey because Mariah’s music genre is closer to R&B which doesn’t tend to be loud but more soft .
Results
As expected Mariah’s album has had a decrease in loudness over the years with not a single album being in the positives. This might be due to her genre or might be because of the fact that she is getting older.
Energy of Christmas Albums to Other Albums
As mentioned before Mariah is known more by her Christmas album than her other albums, so i want to see if the other Albums would be just has god as her Christmas album by using the energy column
Results
Although Christmas albums seems to have higher energy, the mean of both seems to be around same so it might worth it to check out albums other than her Christmas themed ones.
Tempo Shift
With the increase in tempo speed in the music industry over the years would Mariah’s older Christmas song have more tempo compared to its counterpart
Results
Shocking! I was expecting the Younger Albums to have a higher tempo, but this a very interesting discovery.
Reviewer’s Score
Although Mariah Carey is the undefeated queen of Christmas songs, she might have someone challenging her for her throne. In 2013 Ariana Grande released an album named “Christmas Kisses” which was at the top of the chart for weeks, in 2015 she released another banger “Christmas & Chill” which also blew up (not as well as christmas kisses). This begs the question which album is better Ariana Grande Christmas kisses or Mariah Carey Merry Christmas Album
To answer this we are going to be looking at https://www.albumoftheyear.org/ website which contains the reviews of albums over the years.
Results
Wow, that is surprising Ariana Grande having a higher average score is an interesting result.
Sentimental Analysis
Let’s have a look at the sentiments seen in the comment section of each artist’s album.
Posivity Vs Negativity
Let’s see which artist has the highest sentimental positive score
Results
Mariah Carey had significantly more positive result than Ariana Grande
User Reviews over the two different Albums
Since Mariah Carey’s album had a lower score compared to Ariana grande I’m expecting more negative reviews from Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas Album than Ariana Grande’s Christmass Kisses
Results
Another shocking result! Ariana Grande had less negative coments than Mariah Carey. This could be due to small sample size
Future Analysis
I have a couple of future analysis planned:
Increasing Sample Size of the data: More sample size better results?
Top Christmas Song from each album (Santa Tell Me, Merry Christmas)
Conclusion
With Christmas fast approaching I hope this page was useful in helping pick which artist to listen to during this Festive Season. Merry Christmas