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Jamaica Data Mining is an open source project created by GRS Worldwide. The purpose of the site is to display Data Visualization of Jamaican related statistcs and information.

Using proprietary data mining techniques and cutting edge software in collaboration with IBM Research Project's MANEYES, we will bring to you each week an infograph of a specific Jamaican data set.


The Jamaica Data Mining project is the brainchild of Reggaeologist and Jamaican cultural pundit Lloyd Laing, Senior Data Farmer and Founder of The Global Reggae Network.

 

The Anatomy Of A Hit Song


Song Length:
58% of all top 10 hit Pop songs have a current song length average of 3:51.

Intro’s
The vast majority of intro’s are short in nature, with 75% landing at or under 0:19.
40% are landing at or under 0:09. The current intro length average is 0:13.88% of all top 10 hit Pop songs contain a “proper” intro.

Outro’s
Currently, both short (0:01-0:09) and long (0:30+) outro’s are on the rise.

The vast majority of current outro’s (54%) land in the 0:10 – 0:19 range, though this range. The current average outro length is 0:21. Currently, 42% off all top 10 hit Pop songs contain “proper” outro’s.

Choruses
The average time that it takes for the first chorus to hit in top 10 hit Pop songs is 0:39. 

A small majority of songs (29%) see their first choruses occurring between 0:01 and 0:19 into the song (primarily due to songs that kick off with the chorus as opposed to the verse). The average percent into the song where the first chorus occurs is currently landing at 17% of the way in. The majority of first choruses occur between 20% – 29% of the way into the song.

Pre-Choruses
After a steady decline (57% down to 32%) in the number of songs containing a pre-chorus the number of songs containing a pre-chorus saw a substantial jump in number increasing from 32% to 50% of songs.

Bridges
After seeing a gradual increase in the number of songs that contained a bridge from (77% to 90% of songs). Currently, only 58% of top 10 hit Pop songs contain a bridge in their framework.

Solos
After seeing a drop off in number (18% of songs down to 5%), we saw the number of songs containing an “actual” solo remain pretty much stable over the last four quarters.

A-B-A-B-C-B Form
Since Q1-2010, songs comprised of an A-B-A-B-C-B form:- (verse/chorus/verse/chrous/bridge/chorus) have fluctuated from the mid 50% range to low 40% range, currently accounting for a majority 42% of all top 10 hit Pop songs.

Primary Instrumentation
The synth consistently remains the most popular instrument in current Pop, and has gradually increased in number from 62% to 79% of top 10 hit Pop songs.

Primary Lead Vocal Gender visualized
The gap between songs featuring a male lead vocalist as opposed to a female lead vocalist has been continuously shrinking (starting at 57% male/ 33% female in Q3-2010), to where it’s now almost even.  Males lead vocals currently account for 46% of songs, females account for 42% of songs, and duets account for 12% of songs.

Electric Vs. Acoustic visualized
The number of songs containing primarily electric based instrumentation has been pretty much stable in the mid 80% to mid 90% range over the past year and a half.  Both Acoustic and Electric/Acoustic combo oriented songs continue to not really play any kind of role in current Pop.

Sub-Genre Influences visualized
After a consistent rise in number Dance/Club oriented songs saw a slight decline in number but still account for the vast majority at 50% of all songs.

Lyrical Themes visualized
Love/relationship themed songs have been in a steep decline since Q3-2010 (where they accounted for 63% of all songs), and now account for just 17% of all top 10 hit Pop songs.

Hooking up themed songs have been on the rise since Q3-2010, and how account for the majority of top 10 hit Pop songs at 38%.  Inspirational themed songs have also been seeing a steady increase in number, climbing form 0% of songs in Q3-2010 to a now second place 25% of songs in Q2-2011.

This report is based on a data drill of a recent report by HSD view the full length report here

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