Spotify Tracks

July 2021 Entertainment Difficulty 2/5 CSV 47.6 MB 586,672 rows × 20 cols 0 downloads
  • spotify
  • music
  • audio-features
  • timeseries
  • streaming

586,672 Spotify tracks with audio features including danceability, energy, valence, tempo, and popularity. Large enough for genre clustering, decade-trend visualisations, and feature-correlation modelling.

Challenge brief

slug: 2021-07-spotify-tracks title: Spotify Tracks year: 2021 month: 07 source: authored authored_at: 2026-04-19 needs_leon_review: true

Spotify Tracks - Challenge Brief

Challenge period: July 2021 Dataset: Reconstructed brief based on the shipped data file for the July 2021 DataDNA challenge.

About the data

The primary data table for this challenge carries the following columns:

  • id
  • name
  • popularity
  • duration_ms
  • explicit
  • artists
  • id_artists
  • release_date
  • danceability
  • energy
  • key
  • loudness
  • mode
  • speechiness
  • acousticness
  • instrumentalness
  • liveness
  • valence
  • tempo
  • time_signature

Suggested analytical angles

  • Which audio features changed most over the decades of popular music?
  • How is danceability distributed across top artists and genres?
  • Do explicit tracks differ systematically in energy and valence?
  • What features predict Spotify popularity in recent releases?

What great submissions did

This brief was reconstructed from the dataset contents in 2026 as part of the Playground audit. The original July 2021 challenge brief was not preserved as a separate file in the source archive, so the analytical angles above are inferred from the column list. See the corresponding /challenges/ entry on datadna.onyxdata.co.uk for examples of how participants approached the data.

Editorial note

_This stub was authored by Claude on 2026-04-19 for Leon's review. Refine the suggested angles and confirm factual accuracy before setting brief_status = leon_reviewed in the audit log._

This dataset was the subject of the DataDNA July 2021 community challenge. The original scoring and leaderboard pre-date the current submission system and are not available for display.

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