SDJan 19, 2023
SpotHitPy: A Study For ML-Based Song Hit Prediction Using SpotifyIoannis Dimolitsas, Spyridon Kantarelis, Afroditi Fouka
In this study, we approached the Hit Song Prediction problem, which aims to predict which songs will become Billboard hits. We gathered a dataset of nearly 18500 hit and non-hit songs and extracted their audio features using the Spotify Web API. We test four machine-learning models on our dataset. We were able to predict the Billboard success of a song with approximately 86\% accuracy. The most succesful algorithms were Random Forest and Support Vector Machine.