Feat. Path

About

How does it work?

Have you ever wondered how to build the shortest playlist that begins with one artist and ends with another? Probably not. But trust me, it's quite possible and very fun!

1

Two artists, one track

Take for example Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams. They made the song “Get Lucky” together, and given that we can connect them!

The two artists
These networks are live: drag to move them, pinch or hold Ctrl/⌘ while scrolling to zoom, and hover an artist to see who it is.
2

Everyone has more partners

But how many connections does Daft Punk have? They have others, such as Nile Rodgers (from Chic), Avicii and the rock band Franz Ferdinand.

Daft Punk Their partners
3

A network of featured tracks

If we keep searching for the connections of each artist, we get a network, a.k.a. graph. In this graph we look for the shortest path between two artists using an algorithm like Dijkstra's shortest path.

On the path Their partners

Ready to try?

Pick two artists and see how they connect.

Find a path

Where the data comes from

The artists come from Spotify's most listened lists (kworb.net), Wikipedia's best-selling artists and Vagalume's genres. For each of them, every album and single on Spotify is read, and every track with more than one artist links them in the network.