Exploring 65 years of music

• Preface
  • A note on the code
• The Data Set
  • Information on Artists
    • Countries and Areas
    • Founding and Parting Year
  • Information on Releases
    • Release vs. Masters and Release Groups
    • Format Flags
    • Genre and Styles
    • Lack of Scores
• A First Look
  • Artist Data
  • Release Data
• Releases over time
  • Release Formats over time, relative
  • Release Formats over time, absolute
• Releases By Genre
  • Genre Popularity
• Styles
  • Styles and their Lifetimes
  • Styles by releases per year
  • Genesis of Styles - Times of Creativity
  • Release distributions over time by subgenre
• Song Lengths
• Number of Tracks per Release
• Track Position and Track Length
• Artists and Gender Distribution
• Band Lifetimes
• Artists by Countries
• Final Plots
• Reflection