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MSD (Million Song Dataset)
The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks.
The core of the dataset is the feature analysis and metadata for one million songs, provided by The Echo Nest. The dataset does not include any audio, only the derived features. Note, however, that sample audio can be fetched from services like 7digital, using code provided by the authors.
Source: http://millionsongdataset.com/ Paper: The Million Song Dataset
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 2 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.
| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommendation Systems | Million Song Dataset | EASE nDCG@100 0.389 | Embarrassingly Shallow Autoencoders for Sparse Data | PreferredAI/cornac +8 | 7 | Compare |
| Music Auto-Tagging | Million Song Dataset | CLMR PR-AUC 25.0 | Contrastive Learning of Musical Representations | spijkervet/CLMR | 2 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
7 shown of 7 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 11. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scalable Approximate NonSymmetric Autoencoder for Collaborative Filtering | 1 | 1 | 14 Sep 2023 | not harvested |
| Contrastive Learning of Musical Representations | 1 | 2 | 17 Mar 2021 | not harvested |
| RecVAE: a New Variational Autoencoder for Top-N Recommendations with Implicit Feedback | 3 | 1 | 24 Dec 2019 | ran 4 of 4 samples (0 unverified) |
| Towards Amortized Ranking-Critical Training for Collaborative Filtering | 1 | 1 | 10 Jun 2019 | not harvested |
| Embarrassingly Shallow Autoencoders for Sparse Data | 9 | 1 | 8 May 2019 | ran 0 of 6 samples (6 unverified) |
| Variational Autoencoders for Collaborative Filtering | 18 | 2 | 16 Feb 2018 | ran 2 of 21 samples (19 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence) |
| Collaborative Metric Learning | 2 | 1 | 1 Apr 2017 | not harvested |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
No loader listed in the archive.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
No licence recorded in the archive. Absence here is not a statement about the dataset's terms.
Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
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Variants archive 2025-07-28
- Million Song Dataset
- MSD
2 variant names, as the archive lists them.
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