Anthony Fantano Review Data Analysis

I found a Kaggle dataset¹ consolidating review data of Anthony Fantano (aka theneedledrop on YouTube), an articulate, divisive, and harsh music critic, from 2010 to 2022. I reproduce a snapshot below.

I used Python to analyse the data, and uncover insights. These are the artists with the most albums/EPs reviewed.

This is how his ratings (out of 10) of albums are distributed.

Below is the distribution of the number of annual reviews.

For each year, I visualise below the percentage of album reviews that were rated 8 or higher. 2010 (31%) and 2021 (20%) had the highest and lowest such percentages.

Considering the artists with 4 or more albums reviewed by Fantano, below is a list of artists ranked descendingly by their albums’ average ratings.

Below is a list of artists ranked by those percentages ascendingly.

There are some minor inaccuracies in, and omissions from the actual data. One of them is that the few albums rated 10 aren’t labelled so in the Kaggle data.

Here is a list of album recommendations from Fantano; all are rated 9.

I conducted my analyses in a local Jupyter Python notebook that I have uploaded here.

References:
1. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/josephgreen/anthony-fantano-album-review-dataset

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