Hit Song Science (HSS)

seraph · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 11:09 am Post subject: Hit Song Science (HSS)

Hit Song Science (HSS) - Offers Singers, Songwriters and Musicians the opportunity to use the latest technology to test their songs for hit potential.

To have a hit song you should ideally be able to answer "yes" to the following three questions:

1. Does the song sound like a hit?

2. Does the song have encouraging mathematical patterns?

3. Does the songs have the right kind of promotion for the current market?

We can only help you answer the second question. But our research has shown that if the answer to that question is "no" your song most likely will not see commercial success and music labels are taking this research very seriously. You should too.

Isn't it fantastic

elektro80 · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 6:43 pm Post subject:

There are some cute videos there:
http://www.hitsongscience.com/media/nbc.mov

What these guys are not saying is if the method can be applied to all music or just western MOR pop.

seraph · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:43 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:45 am Post subject:

Hehe.. well.. why not...

Very Happy

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:50 am Post subject:

I suspect that the HSS thing is far from stupid. But it does probably only apply to MOR western pop tunes. One issue is that if everyone starts doing this, this will probably change the rules a bit because a lot of pop music will then realy start to sound the same. But do check out the videos. They explain a lot and raises many questions.

This is a kind of commercial application of what music psychology has been about for years.. making "listening" systems etc etc.

seraph · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 1:03 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 1:05 am Post subject:

Yeah... Bush senior.. true..

mosc · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 8:40 am Post subject:

I have something better. It's a Flop-O-Meter. You play a song and it tells you it's a flop. I haven't tested it but I bet it has a better success rate then the hit detector. Laughing

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject:

I guess you have the schematics at hand? Any clever logic gates in there?

egw · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject:

All you have to do is declare every song a flop and you will have a 99.9% accuracy!

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 6:27 pm Post subject:

Clever!