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Music Artist Data Sets

This page contains data sets frequently used in Web-based music information research papers by our department and others.

C224a

This is a collection of 224 artists categorized into 14 genres with a uniform genre distribution.

artist list
genre labels (and canonical artist names)
Matlab file C224a_web.mat containing TFxIDF weights extracted from artist-related Web pages, cosine similarity matrix, and meta-data.

C3ka

This is a collection of 3,000 artists, corresponding to the top-ranked last.fm artists (filtered by occurrence in allmusic.com). The genre assignment originates from allmusic.com (18 distinct genres, skewed genre distribution).

artist list
genre labels (and canonical artist names)
Matlab file C3ka_twitter.mat containing TFxIDF weights extracted from artist-related Twitter posts, cosine similarity matrix, and meta-data.

C49ka and C111ka

These are two artist collections used for microblog indexing experiments. C111ka contains a list of 110,588 artists (w/o genre information). C49ka comprises 48,800 artists, for which genre information is available as well.

last edited by ms at 2011-11-07