Key facts
Contents & fields
The dataset is provided as a structured Excel (.xlsx) file containing raw lyric text, preprocessed text, metadata, topic modeling results, and energy logs. Fields include:
- S/N——Record identifier
- Artist——Performer or band name
- Lyrics——Full text of song lyrics
- Title——Song title
- Album——Album name (if available)
- Year——Year of release
- Genre——Primary music genre classification
- Subgenre——Additional detailed genre classification
- Source——URLs linking to the original lyrics source
- Time——Song duration in HH:MM:SS format
- Region——Region/country of origin
- Language——Language or multilingual combinations
- Group——Broader musical category or grouping
Research uses
Suitable for natural language processing (NLP), sentiment analysis, music information retrieval (MIR), computational ethnomusicology, cultural AI applications, especially for low-resource languages, cultural text mining, and cross-lingual NLP tasks.
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Keywords
Why this is hard to get on your own
Obtaining high-quality, multilingual Nigerian lyrics with rich metadata for NLP research, especially for low-resource language processing.
