Examples of analysis of editorial metadata from the Discogs database

Dataset coverage

Genre coverage (%)

alt text

Number of releases across years by country

alt text

Average track duration

Genres

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

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

Styles (grouped by genre, in minutes)

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

Pop

alt text

Rock

alt text

Electronic

alt text

Blues

alt text

Jazz

alt text

Classical

alt text

Reggae

alt text

Hip Hop

alt text

Funk / Soul

alt text

Latin

alt text

Folk, World & Country

alt text

Styles (overall, in minutes)

alt text

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

Pop

alt text

Rock

alt text

Electronic

alt text

Classical

alt text

Blues

alt text

Jazz

alt text

Reggae

alt text

Hip Hop

alt text

Funk / Soul

alt text

Latin

alt text

Folk, World & Country

alt text

Release formats

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

Number of releases

alt text

Percentage of releases

alt text

Number of tracks

alt text

Percentage of tracks

alt text

Formats per genre (% of released tracks)

Blues

alt text

Classical

alt text

Electronic

alt text

Folk, World & Country

alt text

Funk / Soul

alt text

Hip Hop

alt text

Jazz

alt text

Latin

alt text

Pop

alt text

Reggae

alt text

Rock

alt text

Formats for some Electronic styles (% of released tracks)

Ambient

alt text

Experimental

alt text

Synth-pop

alt text

Deep House

alt text

Dubstep

alt text

IDM

alt text

Glitch

alt text

Techno

alt text

Drum n Bass

alt text

House

alt text

Psy-Trance

alt text

Overall

Number of tracks

alt text

Percentage of tracks

alt text

Number of releases

alt text

Percentage of releases

alt text

Number of artists

alt text

Percentage of artists

alt text

### Electronic genre (styles) Percentage of tracks

alt text

Genre and style co-occurrences

Genres

alt text

Electronic styles

To zoom the image, open it in a separate browser tab, and zoom in. alt text

Evolution of style co-occurrences (Electronic - House)

alt text