Data

Billboard note: Billboard Pro does not provide information in structured formats like csv for analysis.  For alternatives:

  • Students in the Music department: see your instructor for information about access to Chartmetric, which offers downloadable chart information for data analytics. 
  • Other students: For his upcoming book, Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves author Chris Dalla Riva has compiled a dataset of all 1,100+ Billboard number one hits from 1958 to early 2025. For each song, the dataset includes information about the artists, songwriters, producers, and label; genre, time signature, keys, BPM, the presence of various instruments; song structure and lyrics; whether the song was entered into Eurovision; and much more. Read more: Chris’s music-through-data newsletter, Can’t Get Much Higher.

Handbooks

Scholar OneSearch, the library's catalog and discovery system, offers books and e-books, videos, datasets and reports.  See recent aquisitons related to the music industry below:

Featured titles

Individual Market and Industry Reports

Research Databases

Chartmetric offers access to data about music sales and industry. Available to students taking classes in the Department of Music. Ask your instructor about access.

Market and company research reports

News and Newspapers for Music Research

See the library's News and Newspapers Guide

Also see our tutorial, How Do I Find Historical Newspapers?

Music Industry Organizations

Copyright Reources