Corpus Archives
The Songkorpus comprises the following artist and thematic archives. All archives contain XML TEI P5 annotated lyrics with lemmatizations and part-of-speech annotations. Named entities, neologisms, and constituent structures are annotated throughout; some archives also include rhyme type annotations. We sincerely thank all contributing artists for allowing their lyrics to be used for non-commercial scientific research.
Artist Archives
Udo Lindenberg
Lyrics covering more than five decades of one of the most influential German-language rock artists. The founding archive of the Songkorpus.
Konstantin Wecker
Lyrics from a singer-songwriter known for politically engaged and poetically sophisticated German-language music.
Stoppok & Danny Dziuk
Lyrics from one of Germany's most distinctive rock-pop duos, known for ironic wordplay and colloquial language.
Element of Crime
Lyrics from an influential Berlin band, whose literary and melancholic German lyrics are noted for poetic density.
Ulla Meinecke
Lyrics from one of the first prominent female voices in German pop and singer-songwriter music.
Hannes Wader
Lyrics from one of the key representatives of the German folk and political song movement.
Fettes Brot
Lyrics from a Hamburg hip-hop group known for humorous, linguistically playful texts that blend rap with pop elements.
Ohrenfeindt
Lyrics from a Hamburg rock band known for straight-ahead hard rock with German lyrics rooted in everyday life.
Dota
Lyrics from the Berlin singer-songwriter Dota Kehr, known for lyric-driven indie folk with political and social themes.
Thematic Archives
Chart Songs
Monitoring archive of the most commercially successful German-language songs, tracking Top 100 Singles Chart performance alongside genre metadata.
GDR Songs
East German songs, partly based on the GDR chart lists, covering two decades of popular music from the German Democratic Republic.
HipHop Songs
German-language rap lyrics spanning Deutschrap's development from a subculture phenomenon to one of Germany's most successful music genres.
NDW Songs
Lyrics of "Neue Deutsche Welle" — a German music movement that blended punk, new wave, and pop in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Miscellaneous
Other assorted songs spanning six decades of mainstream culture and independent releases.
Archive Timeline
Time span covered by each archive, sorted by start year.
Archive Sizes
Token and text counts per archive, sorted by corpus size. Tokens exclude punctuation.
| Archive | Texts | Tokens | Share | Size (log scale) |
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| HipHop Songs Thematic | 7,172 | 3,097,106 | 60.0% |
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| Chart Songs Thematic | 2,547 | 722,753 | 14.0% |
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| Miscellaneous Thematic | 2,956 | 659,479 | 12.8% |
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| GDR Songs Thematic | 1,000 | 175,261 | 3.4% |
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| NDW Songs Thematic | 500 | 78,637 | 1.5% |
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| Udo Lindenberg Artist | 361 | 75,863 | 1.5% |
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| Konstantin Wecker Artist | 283 | 74,181 | 1.4% |
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| Hannes Wader Artist | 220 | 67,582 | 1.3% |
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| Fettes Brot Artist | 147 | 59,199 | 1.1% |
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| Stoppok & Danny Dziuk Artist | 202 | 42,746 | 0.8% |
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| Dota Artist | 178 | 42,610 | 0.8% |
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| Element of Crime Artist | 124 | 24,823 | 0.5% |
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| Ohrenfeindt Artist | 116 | 20,308 | 0.4% |
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| Ulla Meinecke Artist | 87 | 17,843 | 0.3% |
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The bar chart uses a logarithmic scale: each equal step on the bar represents a tenfold increase in token count. This compresses the large differences in archive size so that smaller archives remain visible alongside the much larger Hip-Hop archive.
These analyses are based on corpus data as of July 29, 2026.