Chris Dalla Riva lives at the intersection of music and data.
Playing in bands and recording music since his teenage years, Dalla Riva is currently a Senior Product Manager at Audiomack where he focuses on data analytics and personalization. He also writes about the data behind popular music in his Substack newsletter and upcoming book.
Listen to our conversation where we talk about topics like
The intersection of anlaytical minds and structured forms of art like music and dance
Chris’s tech stack for his music data analysis
How to approach data projects
And of course lots of his insights from analyzing the data behind music
Chris’s first book is a data-driven history of popular music called Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves. It is due out via Bloomsbury on November 13, 2025. He wrote it as he spent years listening to, and building a dataset about, every number one song in history.
If you want to keep up with Chris, you can check out his biweekly newsletter Can't Get Much Higher or his TikTok page where he regularly posts to his 100k+ followers about music and data.
Links:
Pre-order Chris's book: https://bio.site/uncharted_territory
Follow Chris on TikTok: @cdallarivamusic
Follow Chris on YouTube: @cdallarivamusic
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