The musiXmatch dataset: lyrics from 237K songs
Thierry Bertin-Mahieux
corpus of lyrics from 237K songs in a bag-of-words format.
http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/musixmatch
The musiXmatch dataset is the official lyrics collection of the
Million Song Dataset (MSD).
Quick numbers: 237,702 lyrics in bag-of-words format, top 5,000 words
provided.
This is the largest lyrics dataset ever released for research (to our
knowledge). On its own, the dataset can be used for clustering,
visualization, theme and mood analysis, ... Also, all the
bags-of-words are directly resolved to MSD tracks, which links them to
metadata such as: artist name, song title, release year, similar
artists, tags, audio features, etc...
We are extremely grateful for the generous donation of this data, and
aid in preparation, by www.musixmatch.com
The data is clean, meaning that we have removed all known duplicates
and instrumental songs. We also provide you with the musiXmatch track
ID so you can verify the information yourself. The data comes split
into train and test sets to encourage the reporting of comparable
results.
Although we have worked hard on this release, we cannot claim it is
perfect. We welcome questions, feedback, error reports, ...
Finally, try singing bags-of-words, now that's a challenge!
Thierry Bertin-Mahieux
for the Million Song Dataset team,
in collaboration with musiXmatch.com
http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/musixmatch