I’m not gonna write you a love song – Sara Bareilles
A question I’ve always wondered is their a magic formula for creating a number one song. Many song writers are prolific however their song doesn’t necessarily have commercial success. It may be difficult to quantify how the musical composition relates to the song’s success. However I am going to make an attempt at evaluating the lyrics of songs to determining if we can accurately predict if a song will be commercially successful.
To obtain the data I am going to use Beautiful Soup and a few other packages to scrap the content from the websites.
The first step is getting the list of the songs by the artist. I am using the website http://www.azlyrics.com to obtain the list of songs and the lyrics for the songs.
The data created in the previous step needs a little bit of cleaning up before we can get into the model building. It is a common step that needs to be undertaken to ensure that the data can be loaded into models without any issues.
Steps for Preparing the Data
In this step, I will look at the data to see if we can do any feature engineering. And then I will edit the data for the model, train multiple models, evaluate the best model and then test the model. Let’s get started.
Steps for Creating the Model
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