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Is there a formula for winning a GRAMMY award? Or for charting on the Billboard?
Explore audio features and release dates of award-winning and chart-topping songs throughout the years to find trends.
In both the audio features and release dates tab, you can click on the individual dates to view more information!

Song Details
album

Album name

GRAMMY event name

Winning Category

Song Name

Release Date

album

artist name

Artist Popularity

KNOWN FOR:

Genres

Audio features for GRAMMY award-winning songs grouped by category. Click on a specific year to see data for that specific year and winning-song.

Select up to two features.
danceability

Whether a song is suitable for dancing(1) or not suitable for dancing(0)

energy

A perceptual measure of intensity and activity; high energy(1), low energy(0)

instrumentalness

Whether the track is instrumental(1) or not(0)

speechiness

Whether there are a lot of words(1) or no words(0) in a track.

acousticness

A confidence measure of whether the track is acoustic(1) or not(0)

valence

Whether the music is very positive and happy(1) or negative and sad(0)

Audio features for GRAMMY award-winning songs grouped in a single year. Click on a category to see song details at the top of the page.

Year:

Release dates for all GRAMMY award-winning songs. Songs that do not have complete release date data (month, day, and year) have been excluded.

Audio features for the longest-charting songs on the Billboard Hot 100 every year since 1958. Click on a specific year to see audio features for all award-winning songs that year and song details above.

danceability

Whether a song is suitable for dancing(1) or not suitable for dancing(0)

energy

A perceptual measure of intensity and activity; high energy(1), low energy(0)

instrumentalness

Whether the track is instrumental(1) or not(0)

speechiness

Whether there are a lot of words(1) or no words(0) in a track.

acousticness

A confidence measure of whether the track is acoustic(1) or not(0)

valence

Whether the music is very positive and happy(1) or negative and sad(0)

Compare audio features between Billboard charting songs and Song Of The Year GRAMMY winners. Hover over each bar to see the song name.

Billboard Hot 100

GRAMMYs (Song Of The Year)

danceability

Whether a song is suitable for dancing(1) or not suitable for dancing(0)

energy

A perceptual measure of intensity and activity; high energy(1), low energy(0)

instrumentalness

Whether the track is instrumental(1) or not(0)

speechiness

Whether there are a lot of words(1) or no words(0) in a track.

acousticness

A confidence measure of whether the track is acoustic(1) or not(0)

valence

Whether the music is very positive and happy(1) or negative and sad(0)