Analysis is interesting but given the data only comes from top-ten songs it's not useful for judging what makes a hit song popular (without a similar or larger sized data set of songs from the same artists that didn't make the Billboard). The study would be better titled: Differences between a ho-hum top-ten song and a number-1 hit.
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Analysis is interesting but given the data only comes from top-ten songs it's not useful for judging what makes a hit song popular (without a similar or larger sized data set of songs from the same artists that didn't make the Billboard). The study would be better titled: Differences between a ho-hum top-ten song and a number-1 hit.