Student Project Showcase: Top-Selling Music Artists, 1940–2015

🎶 Student Project Showcase: Top-Selling Music Artists, 1940–2015

Project Team: Team of four undergraduate students enrolled in STAT 101 in Fall 2024.

Project Focus: This project analyzes top-selling music artists from 1940–2015 using a rich dataset sourced from Kaggle. The students examined sales trends across artists, genres, countries, and decades, using interactive Tableau visualizations to tell the story of global music success.

Key Visuals:

  • Bar chart of artist sales (highlighting major outliers like Celine Dion)
  • Scatterplot showing Total Certified Units (TCU) vs. revenue
  • Pie chart of artist debuts by decade
  • Heatmap of top genres by country

Dataset Source: Best-Selling Music Artists of All Time – Kaggle