Spotify Genre Popularity by Country

Africa: South Africa

Asia: Indonesia, Japan, Philippines

Europe: UK, Germany, France

North America: US, Canada

South America: Brazil, Columbia, Argentina

We observed the genres based on the top 50 artists in the United States to see which genres Americans preferred more. The graph above tells us that most Americans prefer to listen to pop, rap, and trap music; thus we further explore these 3 types of music to understand their popularity in the United States.

To further understand the popularity of the top three genres in the United States, we take a look at the danceability score, a metric to describe how suitable a track is for dancing based on a combination of musical elements including tempo, rhythm stability, beat strength, and overall regularity. A value of 0.0 is least danceable and 1.0 is most danceable. From looking at the histogram and boxplot figures above, we can see that the average danceability score for the 3 genres ranges from 0.75 to 0.8.

Now we dig deeper into Spotify in other countries for more intriguing observations. We looked at major countries for each continents to see where their music tastes lies and to no surprise we found some countries with fairly similar results to that of the United States. For those countries with completely different music taste, we see some significant difference in their danceability mean score than the counties most similar to the U.S. The two charts above convey a possible correlation between music genre and danceability mean score. The countries with low danceability mean scores may revoke our hypothesis, but upon further inspection there isn't enough factual evidence to disprove it.