The Science of Predicting a Hit Song!

Hisham Hawara
Towards Data Science
4 min readDec 25, 2017

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For many full-time music artists, getting high chart positions is their meal ticket; they need to have a prominent presence in the industry in order to make money and chart positions are a clear way of showing just how prominent they are. At the end of each year, Spotify compiles a playlist of the songs streamed most often over the course of that year. This year’s playlist included 100 songs. The question is: What do these…

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