Website can be found here: https://arianalysis.github.io/
This project provides a quantitative means by which to compare Ariana Grande's albums, songs, and lyrics, and hopefully provide predictive power in regards to landing on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
With Ariana's new music video Thank U Next breaking Vevo and YouTube's record for most music video views and views in general upon 24 hours of release, it seems clear that Ariana Grande has yet to reach her prime. However, there is incessant debate amongst her fans concerning which of her eras reigns supreme: the lovey-dovey Yours Truly era, the collaboration-heavy but more somber My Everything era, the confident and proudly sexual Dangerous Woman era, or her latest and arguably most sentimental and meaningful era, Sweetener? To address this question, as well as see what factors could distinguish songs that hit the Billboard charts from those that don't, I decided to conduct an Arianalysis, or, in other words, an analysis of her songs, lyrics, and albums. The analysis centers on song wordiness, lexical diversity within songs and albums, most frequently used / important words in each album, and percentage of positive lyrics.
The data utilized in the project was parsed from Genius.com (album tracklists and song lyrics) and Billboard.com (chart status and level). I decided to only incorporate songs from Ariana's four studio albums and two of her most popular singles (Focus and Thank U Next), disregarding album intros, EPs, remixes, and miscellaneous, relatively unknown singles because they are expected to be less popular than her official releases, and I did not want them to skew the results.
Overall, I tried to design the app in such a way that it would allow the user to see if there was potentially some correlation between factors like wordier/less wordy songs and Billboard rankings, lexical diversity and getting on the charts, etc., while also giving them to ability to see which qualities the albums shared or how they differed and potentially see how Ariana Grande, as an artist, has changed in these respects over time.