One Year of New Hymns

It has been one year since the first batch of new hymns has been updated. In this post, I want to give a general overview of how these hymns have been used as congregational hymns in sacrament meeting. This will overlap partially with my dedicated posts on the first, second, and third batches, but it also presents some new analyses now found in those posts.

The data for this post is based on

Incorporation

First, let’s talk about how often these hymns collectively have been sung in sacrament meetings. This plot

Number of wards I have data from, by week
Since February 16th
date	wards
February 16	574
February 23	461
March 02	625
March 09	572
March 16	529
March 23	560
March 30	523
April 13	666
April 20	543
April 27	390
May 04	405
May 11	80
May 18	183
May 25	113
June 01	489
June 08	563
June 15	607
June 22	529
June 29	455
July 06	731
July 13	766
July 20	691
July 27	661
August 03	736
August 10	539
August 17	431
August 24	597
August 31	652
September 07	435
September 14	421
September 21	17

How many wards sang new hymns each week?

The following plot show what percentage of wards sang from each of the new batches of hymns, per week, since June 2024 when the new hymns started getting rolled out. I’ve included data from all three batches just so you can compare them to each other.

Ignoring unknown labels:
• fill : "date"

Same plot, but with the start times overlayed.

Popularity

How popular are each of the new hymns. Normalize to number of weeks of being available. Account for holidays. Account for sacrament hymns.