Genre Trends

The table below presents the average track popularity for major music genres from 2000 to 2022. Each value represents the mean of Spotify’s track popularity scores for songs released in a given year and categorized under a specific genre. Although the table does not explicitly include the label “Track_popularity (average)” as a column header, all numerical values shown are calculated as yearly averages rather than individual song scores.

Year EDM Hip-hop Other Pop R&B Rock danceability energy liveness valence tempo duration_ms
2000 69.40 68.50 64.85 65.02 62.25 70.89 0.429 0.661 0.234 0.285 173.372 266773
2001 59.80 67.36 64.42 68.88 62.20 72.91 0.434 0.897 0.612 0.684 148.726 167067
2002 65.00 68.67 63.82 64.96 62.00 72.14 0.529 0.496 0.251 0.278 136.859 250547
2003 62.00 58.11 64.55 63.57 61.33 73.00 0.556 0.864 0.209 0.4 105.143 216880
2004 65.50 68.00 65.83 66.91 59.00 77.00 0.61 0.926 0.0821 0.861 172.638 200400
2005 66.00 69.00 67.33 69.04 60.00 71.92 0.706 0.888 0.07 0.714 121.549 253733
2006 69.33 66.62 65.25 67.87 70.00 68.33 0.949 0.661 0.0454 0.76 104.504 284200
2007 68.50 66.88 60.50 69.21 72.50 75.11 0.712 0.762 0.0981 0.842 103.032 260560
2008 72.44 68.33 71.09 70.50 74.11 0.713 0.678 0.149 0.734 138.009 271333
2009 73.00 60.29 70.49 63.00 73.36 0.458 0.795 0.0756 0.513 123.229 255373
2010 59.00 77.67 61.00 69.08 76.00 0.837 0.462 0.09 0.762 139.986 201400
2011 64.00 65.80 58.00 72.06 89.00 75.80 0.656 0.578 0.118 0.556 94.514 256733
2012 73.00 71.60 69.00 73.47 71.00 73.67 0.629 0.696 0.0554 0.623 93.034 207627
2013 73.00 76.67 66.00 73.69 60.00 80.60 0.779 0.64 0.101 0.498 99.019 246960
2014 69.00 70.50 78.00 73.93 83.00 71.00 0.637 0.678 0.156 0.254 84.039 250760
2015 78.25 73.33 76.51 78.20 0.675 0.479 0.088 0.454 81.998 209493
2016 77.50 78.33 74.00 75.88 70.00 73.00 0.496 0.682 0.0589 0.474 167.06 262333
2017 80.33 78.87 78.00 77.00 0.877 0.637 0.0959 0.569 119.988 272080
2018 81.00 76.56 71.67 76.15 75.00 0.599 0.785 0.151 0.52 140.046 233640
2019 76.45 75.25 77.74 75.00 0.818 0.705 0.613 0.772 138.559 222640
2020 65.68 66.47 77.00 0.635 0.841 0.0622 0.424 109.021 220734
2021 71.13 64.88 82.00 86.00 0.749 0.925 0.52 0.641 86.989 263373
2022 72.69 65.11 76.25 75.50 0.673 0.886 0.0826 0.795 97.012 216773
2022 72.69 65.11 76.25 75.50 0.791 0.59 0.065 0.714 119.951 206067
# Empty cells indicate years in which there were not enough tracks available for a specific genre to calculate a reliable average popularity score.