Brilliant Squirtle

INFO 2950 Project

TikTok has become a cultural phenomenon, with millions of users creating and sharing short video clips with music. The music on TikTok has a significant impact on popular culture, driving the success of hit songs and launching new artists' careers. By analyzing data related to trending TikTok tracks, we hope to discover insightful patterns in the music that drives this platform. Specifically, we explored the question: what factors contribute to making a track popular on TikTok? We are interested in exploring the relationship between song duration and the popularity of TikTok tracks. We also want to visualize the song danceability of TikTok tracks before and after COVID-19. We are curious about these two variables because of our own experiences during the pandemic – a feeling of restlessness and boredom during quarantine could have encouraged people on TikTok to create dance trends as an outlet.