Using Math To Judge your Songs’ Hit Potential
November 18th, 2009 | Published in wires | 1 Comment
I’ve always been fascinated by the consistencies between “popular songs,” the rhythmic patterns or chord progressions that comprise hits, the intervals between notes forming the hooks that you can’t seem to get out of your head. There are a lot of unspoken and intangible factors to popular songs that I’m sure are reflected in the numbers; starting a chorus vocal on the downbeat, or as a pick up to the downbeat, carries a greater likelihood of creating a memorable song than starting the lead vocal after the hit… stuff like that. I knew that you could, more or less, boil it down to numbers in some way, and now it’s being done.
Polyphonic claims to have predicted Norah Jones’ success before she garnered top honors for her album back in 2002.
Take it all with a grain of salt though, as the U-Playa goal is clearly (as it should be) to make money as a business.
You can submit your song to see if you’ve got a hit right here.
The video quality’s subpar on this, but definitely worth a watch.
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November 20th, 2009at 9:18 pm(#)
Anybody tried it out with the 2 free uploads yet? I uploaded 2 songs, one was abysmal (very produced elctro-rock) and the other got a platinum rating (just an unmixed scratch track of vocal/acoustic guitar).
Let me know if you gave it a whirl!