Lyrics and Song Data for Taylor Swift's Discography.
taylor
Overview 
The goal of taylor is to provide easy access to a curated data set of Taylor Swift songs, including lyrics and audio characteristics. Data comes Genius and the Spotify API.
Installation
You can install the released version of taylor from CRAN with:
install.packages("taylor")
To install the development version from GitHub use:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("wjakethompson/taylor")
Example
There are three main data sets. The first is taylor_album_songs, which includes lyrics and audio features from the Spotify API for all songs on Taylor’s official studio albums. Notably this excludes singles released separately from an album (e.g., Only the Young, Christmas Tree Farm, etc.), and non-Taylor-owned albums that have a Taylor-owned alternative (e.g., Fearless is excluded in favor of Fearless (Taylor’s Version)). We support artists owning their work.
taylor_album_songs
#> # A tibble: 240 × 29
#> album_name ep album_release track_number track_name artist featuring
#> <chr> <lgl> <date> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 1 Tim McGraw Taylo… <NA>
#> 2 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 2 Picture To Bu… Taylo… <NA>
#> 3 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 3 Teardrops On … Taylo… <NA>
#> 4 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 4 A Place In Th… Taylo… <NA>
#> 5 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 5 Cold As You Taylo… <NA>
#> 6 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 6 The Outside Taylo… <NA>
#> 7 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 7 Tied Together… Taylo… <NA>
#> 8 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 8 Stay Beautiful Taylo… <NA>
#> 9 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 9 Should've Sai… Taylo… <NA>
#> 10 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 10 Mary's Song (… Taylo… <NA>
#> # ℹ 230 more rows
#> # ℹ 22 more variables: bonus_track <lgl>, promotional_release <date>,
#> # single_release <date>, track_release <date>, danceability <dbl>,
#> # energy <dbl>, key <int>, loudness <dbl>, mode <int>, speechiness <dbl>,
#> # acousticness <dbl>, instrumentalness <dbl>, liveness <dbl>, valence <dbl>,
#> # tempo <dbl>, time_signature <int>, duration_ms <int>, explicit <lgl>,
#> # key_name <chr>, mode_name <chr>, key_mode <chr>, lyrics <list>
You can access Taylor’s entire discography with taylor_all_songs. This includes all of the songs in taylor_album_songs plus EPs, individual singles, and the original versions of albums that have been re-released as Taylor’s Version.
taylor_all_songs
#> # A tibble: 356 × 29
#> album_name ep album_release track_number track_name artist featuring
#> <chr> <lgl> <date> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 1 Tim McGraw Taylo… <NA>
#> 2 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 2 Picture To Bu… Taylo… <NA>
#> 3 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 3 Teardrops On … Taylo… <NA>
#> 4 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 4 A Place In Th… Taylo… <NA>
#> 5 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 5 Cold As You Taylo… <NA>
#> 6 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 6 The Outside Taylo… <NA>
#> 7 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 7 Tied Together… Taylo… <NA>
#> 8 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 8 Stay Beautiful Taylo… <NA>
#> 9 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 9 Should've Sai… Taylo… <NA>
#> 10 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 10 Mary's Song (… Taylo… <NA>
#> # ℹ 346 more rows
#> # ℹ 22 more variables: bonus_track <lgl>, promotional_release <date>,
#> # single_release <date>, track_release <date>, danceability <dbl>,
#> # energy <dbl>, key <int>, loudness <dbl>, mode <int>, speechiness <dbl>,
#> # acousticness <dbl>, instrumentalness <dbl>, liveness <dbl>, valence <dbl>,
#> # tempo <dbl>, time_signature <int>, duration_ms <int>, explicit <lgl>,
#> # key_name <chr>, mode_name <chr>, key_mode <chr>, lyrics <list>
Finally, there is a small data set, taylor_albums, summarizing Taylor’s album release history.
taylor_albums
#> # A tibble: 17 × 5
#> album_name ep album_release metacritic_score user_score
#> <chr> <lgl> <date> <int> <dbl>
#> 1 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24 67 8.4
#> 2 The Taylor Swift Holiday Col… TRUE 2007-10-14 NA NA
#> 3 Beautiful Eyes TRUE 2008-07-15 NA NA
#> 4 Fearless FALSE 2008-11-11 73 8.4
#> 5 Speak Now FALSE 2010-10-25 77 8.6
#> 6 Red FALSE 2012-10-22 77 8.6
#> 7 1989 FALSE 2014-10-27 76 8.3
#> 8 reputation FALSE 2017-11-10 71 8.3
#> 9 Lover FALSE 2019-08-23 79 8.4
#> 10 folklore FALSE 2020-07-24 88 9
#> 11 evermore FALSE 2020-12-11 85 8.9
#> 12 Fearless (Taylor's Version) FALSE 2021-04-09 82 8.9
#> 13 Red (Taylor's Version) FALSE 2021-11-12 91 8.9
#> 14 Midnights FALSE 2022-10-21 85 8.3
#> 15 Speak Now (Taylor's Version) FALSE 2023-07-07 81 9.2
#> 16 1989 (Taylor's Version) FALSE 2023-10-27 90 NA
#> 17 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT FALSE 2024-04-19 76 NA
Code of Conduct
Contributions are welcome. To ensure a smooth process, please review the Contributing Guide. Please note that the taylor project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.