Part of this blog is about creating our own infographics, which I’ve done previously. What I haven’t done yet though is produce a Wordle. The site allows the user to input any text and it automatically produces an infographic displaying the most common words used as the biggest.

I wanted to create a word cloud that would tell us something about the state of society today. What words do we use most often? What is the language of the zeightgeist? I decided the best way to do this was to dissect the world of pop music.

Every year, mash-up genius DJ Earworm creates mash-ups of the Top 25 US Billboard hits from that year. Here’s his 2010 mash-up featuring the likes of top artists such as Lady GaGa, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars and Taio Cruz…

Awesome, right? But what words come up the most? For this is found each song on lyric database letssingit.com and copied each of the 25 songs into a Word document. When they were all copied in, I created the word cloud and customised it so that it was easily readable.

And… voila!

The overwhelming most common word was “oh” and “love”, “like” and “baby” also featured prominently. A shock occurance was “imma” – most likely due to The Black Eyed Peas.

Also interestingly, it seems pop was catered to singing about men more than women in 2010 – “boy” was a tiny bit bigger than “girl” in the word cloud.

What do YOU think of the word cloud? Have YOU created any fun word clouds with Wordle? What doYOU think would make a good word cloud? Comment us below or get involved on Twitter – tweet us @InfographicsD

Song lyrics featured in the word cloud:

Ke$ha – Tik Tok

Lady Antebellum – Need You Now

Train – Hey, Soul Sister

Katy Perry – Featuring Snoop Dogg – California Gurls

Usher Featuring will.i.am – OMG

B.O.B. Featuring Hayley Williams – Airplanes

Eminem Featuring Rihanna – Love the Way You Lie

Lady Gaga – Bad Romance

Taio Cruz – Dynamite

Taio Cruz Featuring Ludacris – Break Your Heart

B.O.B. Featuring Bruno Mars – Nothin’ On You

Enrique Iglesias Featuring Pitbull – I Like It

Young Money Featuring Lloyd – Bedrock

Jason Derulo – In My Head

Rihanna – Rude Boy

Lady Gaga Featuring Beyonce – Telephone

Katy Perry – Teenage Dream

Bruno Mars – Just the Way You Are

Mike Posner – Cooler Than Me

The Black Eyed Peas – Imma Be

Jay-Z + Alicia Keys – Empire State of Mind

Usher Featuring Pitbull – DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love

Travie McCoy Featuring Bruno Mars – Billionaire

Eminem – Not Afraid

Iyaz – Replay