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An open interactive research and teaching resource for examining how song-title structure changes over time. The study and downloadable CC BY 4.0 aggregate dataset cover 7,096,331 eligible LyricsWeb catalog records from 1800 through the partial 2026 period. Learners can examine Unicode-aware structural token counts, title length, numbers, punctuation, release-year provenance, uncertainty intervals and catalog-language-label aggregates. The resource includes a research workspace, methodology, CSV and JSON downloads, a data dictionary and a permanent Zenodo dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23624636. It describes the observed LyricsWeb corpus rather than every song released and contains no lyrics, audio, personal data, source code or item-level catalog records.

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