No wonder the simplicity of their lyrics breaks the barriers of geography, age, language and they are admired globally. KEEP IT SIMPLE, SILLY! The three top selling musicians of all time rank low in the vocabulary chart. Get your song-writing vocabulary size in this range to be a top selling artist. Around 40 musicians have a vocabulary size within 400 words of the average. THE BIG PLATEAU The average vocabulary size across all the musicians is 2677 words. Not the least Whoever said songs can’t sell without lyrics. Also, she is the only one who ranks in the top 15 by vocabulary size as well as the total certified SURPRISE! I had not expected a pop sensation like her to rank high since they rely on simplicity to get their message across. This was a result I was not expecting when I started the analysis. Their vocabularies in different languages are getting summed up leading to a high overall vocabulary size. These superstars have released songs in multiple popular languages. Has never used before in any of his earlier songs. An N.W.I of X means every X th word in the lyrics of the artist is a new word, that is, a word he/she This is the ratio of (Lyrical density / Vocabulary Size). NEW WORD INTERVAL (N.W.I) On average, the number of words after which a new word is used by the musician. LYRICAL DENSITY The total number of words (across any language) used by a musician in 100 (or less) densest songs across their career. VOCABULARY SIZE The number of unique words (across any language) used by a musician in 100 (or less) densest songs across their career.
Here are some definitions you should be acquainted with This should give a fair idea of the overall vocabulary of these musicians. Also, 100 songs comprises 8 to 10 albums of music which would span at least 5 to 10 years of work. Only 6 of these musicians have released less than 100 songs,
To prevent the analysis from being skewed purely by the number of songs released, the vocabularies are compared across the 100 densest songs (by total number of words) that they have released. MOST AND LEAST PROLIFIC OF THE 93 MUSICIANS
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