The effect of the typicality of song lyrics on song popularity: A natural language processing analysis of the British top singles chart
Published online on November 24, 2025
Abstract
Psychology of Music, Ahead of Print.
This study investigates the relationship between the lexical typicality of song lyrics and song popularity in the UK Official Singles Chart from 1999 to 2013. Drawing on natural language processing (NLP) techniques, we develop a multidimensional measure ...
This study investigates the relationship between the lexical typicality of song lyrics and song popularity in the UK Official Singles Chart from 1999 to 2013. Drawing on natural language processing (NLP) techniques, we develop a multidimensional measure ...