Introducing The Million Playlist Dataset and RecSys Challenge 2018

This post introduces the Million Playlist Dataset (MPD), a dataset of 1 million user-created playlists sampled from Spotify's public playlists, containing over 2 million unique tracks by nearly 300,000 artists. It also announces the RecSys Challenge 2018, focused on automatic playlist continuation, where researchers are tasked with predicting hidden songs in real user-created playlists. The MPD includes playlist titles, track lists with metadata, and other anonymized metadata fields. The challenge aims to advance research in recommender systems for music.