LyricStats

Every word an artist has ever released, counted.

LyricStats reads an artist's whole catalogue and turns it into numbers, then prints them as a newspaper, with a front page essay written from the database itself.

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The front page of LyricStats, Issue 01: The Monsters of Sarajevo
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Issue 01 · The feature

The Monsters of Sarajevo

Jala Brat and Buba Corelli's full catalogues, 492 songs, read against their 2026 album GODZILLA. Every figure comes straight from the database.

Words counted
Distinct words
Words they had never used before GODZILLA
Times they have said “mala”

The duo, side by side

Jala BratBuba Corelli

Songs
407304
Vocabulary
17,55313,867
Words written
151,245109,146
Chorus share
29.8%44.1%
Lexical variety
.460.462
“Mala” said
512×492×

Same richness, different organs: Jala writes for the head, Buba for the bloodstream.

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Taylor Swift

211 songs · 73,765 words · 4,850 distinct

Words per song
350
Lexical variety
.378
Of every song, hook
28%
Lines repeated
29%

“ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh”

The career line: 16 times, in Safe

Signature words. would've · should've · clear · yet · isn't · who's

Fastest song. End Game, at 176 words a minute

Longest word. miscommunications

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Issue 02 is on the chorus, and the geometry of repetition.

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