Download chart position data from ifpi.fi
Arguments
- channel
Options: "radio", "albumit", "singlet", "fyysiset-albumit"
- year
year as numeric. Default is NA, returning charts from current year. Charts are available from 2014 onwards.
- week
week as numeric. Default is NA, returning most last possible charts. Week cannot be the current week. Please note that number of weeks differ between years. For simplicity's sake valid weeks are set to be between 1 and 53. Use e.g. `lubridate::isoweek` to check how many weeks a given year has.
Details
Web scraping function that is inspired by Sauravkaushik8 Kaushik's blog post "Beginner's Guide on Web Scraping in R" on analyticsvidhya.com. Downloads chart data from Musiikkituottajat - IFPI Finland ry website. Please note that this function works only with IFPI Finland website!
The output has the following columns:
rank: Rank on chart
artist: Artist name
song_title: Song title
rank_last_week: Rank on chart on the previous week. RE if the song has re-entered the chart
chart_woc: Weeks on chart
week: Week number of observation
year: Year of observation