Wonder what Eminem,Kanye West and famous singer and song-writer Bob Dylan have in common?
According to a latest study,the trio are among the top five artists with the largest vocabularies in music.
Varun Jewalikar and Nishant Verma who put the report together for the lyrics site,Musixmatch,studied 93 artists across 25 genres from pop to new age.
"The aim is to compare vocabulary size of these musicians",they said."Some of them have released a lot more songs than the others because of the sheer longetivity of their career and how prolific they are"
Using a list of 99 of the best selling artists of all time,the pair compared "across the 100 densest songs(by total number of words) that they have released."However,the analysis excluded Bruce Springsteen,Chicago,Def Leppard,Journey,The Beach Boys and The Doors,because they haven't granted permission to Musixmatch to use their lyrics in the study.
Shady(Eminem),topped the list with 8,818 unique words used,he was followed by fellow rap artist Jay Z,with 6,899,the late Tupac with 6,569 and Kanye with 5,069.Legendary singer and songwriter Bob Dylan came in fifth with 4,883.
Perhaps,the top 4 was to be expected,as rap is by nature dense,given the focus on lyricism.
However,Jewalikar and Verma pointed out that "There is a large variation of vocabulary size in the 93 top selling musicians and there is no overall correlation between the commercial success of a musician and their vocabulary size.
"This analysis should not be interpreted as saying that one musician is better than the other.
"It gives us a peek into the mind of different songwriters,some tear your heart with just a few words,while others paint an intricate picture with a thousand words."
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