Spotify’s Top Tracks for Falling In & Out of Love
If you’re feeling (un)lucky in love, this is what the world is listening to
We’ve analysed worldwide Spotify data from over 7,400 playlists to find out which songs people listen to
the most at different stages of a relationship. To do this, we explored which tracks appeared the most
in playlists featuring terms related to dating, love, breaking up, and moving on.
Select your stage of the relationship cycle below to listen to the ultimate playlist for you right now.
Methodology
We used
Playlist Miner
to find the top 100 tracks in the first 1000 global Spotify playlists containing the following
keywords in the title: ‘date night’, ‘flirting’, ‘loves songs’, ‘falling in love’, ‘breakup’,
‘heartbreak’, ‘moving on’, and ‘single life’. This data collection was carried out on 20th and 27th
January 2021.
For each stage of the relationship cycle, we combined the data for the two associated keywords,
giving the most popular tracks. The top 100 of these were put into a playlist.
We then used
Musical Data
to find out the musical characteristics of the top 10 songs in each part of
the cycle. To work out the ultimate characteristics for each stage, we used modal data to determine
genre, key, and era, whilst the mean was calculated for the tempo (measured in beats per minute) and
song duration.
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