# MusicMood: Predicting the mood of music from song lyrics using machine learning

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00138 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1611.00138/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 1 Nov 2016.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Mood Classification of Bangla Songs Based on Lyrics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.10314/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Sentiment prediction of contemporary music can have a wide-range of applications in modern society, for instance, selecting music for public institutions such as hospitals or restaurants to potentially improve the emotional well-being of personnel, patients, and customers, respectively. In this project, music recommendation system built upon on a naive Bayes classifier, trained to predict the sentiment of songs based on song lyrics alone. The experimental results show that music corresponding to a happy mood can be detected with high precision based on text features obtained from song lyrics.