by Lena R. Bartell (twitter: @lenabartell)

In a massive marathon event, WXPN radio in Philadelphia played over 5,000 songs from their library in alphabetical order. The marathon started on November 30 and continued 24/7 until mid-day on December 17, 2016. To learn more, check out their website: WXPN radio (on twitter @wxpnfm, #XPNAtoZ). During the marathon, I developed this code to analyze the playlist.

Here's a quick analysis, including code to

1. Scrape data from the xpn.org playlist website using scrapy spider (scrape_playlist\scrape_playlist\spiders\xpnplaylist_spider.py)
2. Use the MusicBrainz.org online database & API to collect more song metadata (wordplay.py)
3. Analyze and export the results (wordplay.py)

1. "Meet Lena Bartell, #XPNAtoZ data nerd and massive music fan", by Bruce Warren. December 16, 2016.
2. "Tuning in to the WXPN A to Z marathon, alphabetically", by Dan DeLuca. December 16, 2016.
3. "BEHOLD, DATA NERDS, THIS INSANE BREAKDOWN OF WXPN'S #XPNATOZ COUNTDOWN", on philebrity.com. December 16, 2016.

Also check out complementary analysis of the playlist by Drew Sudell and Bruce Segal