lyrics: Lyrics from songs on Billboards Hot 100 from 1960 to 2016

In billboard: Contains Data of Billboard Hot 100 Songs

Description

A data set containing lyrics for songs on the Billboard Hot 100 over the past 57 years. The lyrics were identified and collected by webscraping so there might be some errors and mistakes - have that in mind.

Usage

lyrics

Format

A data frame with 5701 rows and 4 variables:

title

the title of the song

artist

the artist of the song

year

year

lyrics

lyrics of the song

Source

http://www.genius.com/

Examples

if (require("dplyr")) {

  data(lyrics)

  lyrics %>% glimpse()

}

Example output

Loading required package: dplyr

Attaching package: 'dplyr'

The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':

    filter, lag

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    intersect, setdiff, setequal, union

Observations: 5,701
Variables: 4
$ title  <chr> "Theme from A Summer Place", "He'll Have to Go", "Cathy's Cl...
$ artist <chr> "Percy Faith", "Jim Reeves", "The Everly Brothers", "Johnny ...
$ year   <chr> "1960", "1960", "1960", "1960", "1960", "1960", "1960", "196...
$ lyrics <chr> "There's a summer place\nWhere it may rain or storm\nYet I'm...

billboard documentation built on May 1, 2019, 7:58 p.m.