I wasn't an OG fan, but I could imagine Cory's passing was shocking. He was a good man, may he be resting in peace. I agree with you about the first two seasons being the best. I think the first 13 still hold up pretty well because they were more plot focused as the fan feedback hadn't started coming in yet. Seasons 3-5 are unwatchable in certain places.
My methodology isn't on here, but I only did songs released on the albums. There were two songs, but one was performed incorrectly so as to advance the plot, thus it wasn't on the album.
Either way, the first 13 episodes as they're called were the original batch produced. There are a lot of small things in them that are lacking from the rest of the series - fewer songs, Will having adult friends, Finn being an implied senior, the satirical nature, etc.
I'm currently working with this data, so thank you for the suggestion. I did calculate the correlation between song increases and IMDb scores, and it concluded there was a weak correlation. However, the seasons that rank higher (S1 and S2, mainly) have the fewest amount of songs per episode.
Wikipedia was used to verify what was on the Glee Wiki. A song here is counted as something that was performed in both the episode and on the album. Album exclusive songs and episode only songs do not count.
Microsoft Excel was used in order to create this graph.
[OC] Correlation Between Glee's IMDb Scores & Amount of Songs Per Episode
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I wasn't an OG fan, but I could imagine Cory's passing was shocking. He was a good man, may he be resting in peace. I agree with you about the first two seasons being the best. I think the first 13 still hold up pretty well because they were more plot focused as the fan feedback hadn't started coming in yet. Seasons 3-5 are unwatchable in certain places.