7-433 - A Model for Predicting Music Popularity on Spotify

Carlos V Soares Araujo

Abstract: The global music market moves billions of dollars every year, most of which comes from streaming platforms. In this paper, I present a model for predicting whether or not a song will appear in Spotify's Top 50 ranking. To make this prediction, I trained different classifiers with information of audio features from songs that appeared in this ranking between November 2018 and January 2019. When tested with data from June and July 2019, an SVM classifier with RBF kernel obtained accuracy and AUC above 80%.