Me, Music and I

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COVID-19 CHANGED MY MUSIC TASTE

After six months in lockdown and being one the privileged ones to experiment with new habits and lifestyles during the quarantine, I look back at my streaming history to identify the changes in my music tastes during the lockdown. During the process I identified the following:

• I listened to 964 artists during a period of 12 months, out of which I discovered 313 of them only after the lockdown.
• My top artists and tracks changed during the lockdown.
• During the lockdown, I streamed BTS's music the most.

I further extended my analysis to dive deeper into BTS in an attempt to know what it was that changed my preferences drastically. During the process I identified that BTS's music has high 'danceability' and energy, which acted as a escape from the monotony of quarantine.

Lastly, I extracted some data of other top K-Pop artists to find similar tracks based on my preference of audio features.

How I got the data

1. Spotify streaming history -- by Spotify
2. BTS data -- Spotify Web API
3. Top K-Pop artist and music data -- Spotify Web API

Data extraction reference from haebichan's notebook