Collaborative Song Dataset (CoSoD)

CoSoD consists of metadata and analytical data of a 331-song corpus comprising all multi-artist collaborations on the Billboard “Hot 100” year-end charts published between 2010 and 2019. Each song in the dataset is associated with two CSV files: one for metadata and one for analytical data.

Annotation Data Overview

For more details on the annotation process and data, refer to our ISMIR 2023 paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05588

Please cite the paper if you plan on publishing results using the dataset.

Metadata CSV Files

The columns correspond to the following data:

1. Index number: From 1 to 331
2. Year of first appearance on Billboard “Hot 100” year-end charts
3. Chart position: As it appears on the Billboard “Hot 100” year-end charts
4. Song title: As it appears on the Billboard “Hot 100” year-end charts
5. Name of artists: As it appears on the Billboard “Hot 100” year-end charts
6. Collaboration type:

Lead/featured: Collab. with lead artist(s) and featured artist(s)

No lead/featured: Collab. with no determined lead

DJ/vocals: Collab. between a DJ and vocalist(s)

7. Gender of artists:

Men: Collab. between two or more men

Women: Collab. between two or more women

Mixed: Collab. between two or more artists of different genders

8. Collaboration type + gender:

Collab M: Collab. between men, no determined lead

Collab M and W: Collab. between men and women, no determined lead

Collab NB and W: Collab. betwen women and non-binary artists, no determined lead

Collab W: Collab. between women, no determined lead

DJ with M: Collab. between male DJ and male vocalist

DJ with Mix: Collab. between male DJ and mixed-gender vocalists

DJ with NB: Collab. between male DJ and non- binary vocalist

DJ with W: Collab. between male DJ and female vocalist

M ft. M: Men featuring men

M ft. W: Men featuring non-binary artist(s)

W ft. M: Women featuring men

W ft. W: Women featuring women

9. MusicBrainz URL: Link to the song on open music encyclopedia MusicBrainz

Analysis CSV files

The columns correspond to the following data:

1. Index Number: 1 to 331
2. Time Stamps: In seconds (start of new section)
3. Formal section label: Introduction, Verse, Pre-chorus, Chorus, Hook, Dance Chorus, Link, Post-chorus, Bridge, Outro, Refrain or Other
4. Name of artist(s): Full name of the artist performing in each section. If all artists credited on the Billboard listing perform in a section, the label both or all is used.

For each formal section performed by one artist only, the following analytical data on the voice is provided:

1. Gender of artist: M (Man), W (Woman), NB (Non- binary)
2. Function of artist: Feat (Featured artist), Main (Main artist), Neither, Uncredited
3. Style of vocal delivery: R (Rapped vocals), S (Sung vocals), Spoken
4. Minimum pitch value: in Hz
5. First quartile pitch value: in Hz
6. Median pitch value: in Hz
7. Third quartile pitch value: in Hz
8. Maximum pitch value: in Hz
9. Environment value: On a scale of E1 to E5
10. Layering value: On a scale of L1 to L5
11. Width (panning) value: On a scale of W1 to W5