examples

Examples of analysis of editorial metadata from the Discogs database

Dataset coverage

Genre coverage (%)

Number of releases across years by country

Average track duration

Genres

Including releases with multiple genre annotations (in minutes, number of computed tracks is given in brackets):

Excluding releases with multiple genre annotations (in minutes, number of computed tracks is given in brackets):

Styles (grouped by genre, in minutes)

The number of computed tracks for each style is given in brackets.

Pop

Rock

Electronic

Blues

Jazz

Classical

Reggae

Hip Hop

Funk / Soul

Latin

Folk, World & Country

Styles (overall, in minutes)

Evolution of durations across time (by genre, in minutes)

Pop

Rock

Electronic

Classical

Blues

Jazz

Reggae

Hip Hop

Funk / Soul

Latin

Folk, World & Country

Release formats

Overall proportion of released music by format across years (%)

Number of releases

Percentage of releases

Number of tracks

Percentage of tracks

Formats per genre (% of released tracks)

Blues

Classical

Electronic

Folk, World & Country

Funk / Soul

Hip Hop

Jazz

Latin

Pop

Reggae

Rock

Formats for some Electronic styles (% of released tracks)

Ambient

Experimental

Synth-pop

Deep House

Dubstep

IDM

Glitch

Techno

Drum n Bass

House

Psy-Trance

Genre and style trends

Overall

Number of tracks

Percentage of tracks

Number of releases

Percentage of releases

Number of artists

Percentage of artists

### Electronic genre (styles) Percentage of tracks

Genre and style co-occurrences

Genres

Electronic styles

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Evolution of style co-occurrences (Electronic - House)