Main Dataset for "Evolution of Popular Music: USA 1960–2010"

This is a large file (~20MB) called EvolutionPopUSA_MainData.csv, in comma-separated data format with column headers. Each row corresponds to a recording. The file is viewable in any text editor, and can also be opened in Excel or imported to other data processing programs. Below is a list of the column headers, with annotations. public_idunique ID of the recording artist_namename of the recording artist artist_name_cleanartist name all upper case, no spaces, with secondary artists ("featuring") removed. track_namename of the track, i.e. usually name of the song first_entrydate of the first entry into the Billboard Hot 100 quarter, year, fiveyear, decadetransformations of first_entry to coarser time periods eraera the track belongs to (1,...,4), as determined by Foote segmentation on the PC data (see below) clustercluster membership of the track, as derived by k-means clustering on the PC data (see below) hTopic_01, ... , hTopic_08harmonic Topic weights, see description in the paper tTopic_01, ... , tTopic_08timbral Topic weights, see description in the paper PC1, ... , PC14principal components of the harmonic and timbral Topics harm_…193 columns of chord change counts; the chord change is indicated in the column label (e.g. harm_M.2.M means major chord followed by another major chord 2 semitones up). timb_01, ... , timb_3535 columns of timbre class counts (see description in supplementary information)