The Holiday Blues: An exploration of popular Christmas songs

In this project, I examine the emotional spectrum of Christmas music, focusing on listener preferences for happy versus melancholic songs. I leveraged the Spotify API and analyzed the 2022 Billboard staff's list of 100 favorite Christmas songs. I utilized Python libraries such as Pandas for data manipulation, Requests for API interactions, and Matplotlib and Seaborn for visualizations.

The analysis included exploring song release years, listener statistics from the Last FM API, and audio features from the Spotify API. It specifically assessed key and tempo to classify songs as happy or sad. Findings revealed a predominant preference for major-key songs, particularly from the 1960s, despite melancholic tracks.