New Software Predicts the Next Hits
By Morelli
The newest software from Diagnos, dubbed Hitlab, can calculate if your song is a hit or not! Comparing 78 variables, like chord progressions and vocal timbre, with the top Billboard hits of the past six years, the algorithm gives tracks what they call a Dynamic Hit Score. Hitlab founder, Tomas Gauthier, says top-scoring tracks are also the top-selling ones on Apple’s iTunes music store 70% to 80% of the time.
On the Hitlab website, bands can register and distribute their music, à la Myspace, and also pay 30$ to get their tracks analyzed by Hitlab software. If they score highly, they get drafted into a competition with a panel of judges, like Idol. Winning means contacts with managers, possibly leading to contracts with labels.The software itself is touted to be “the future of music,” essentially farming talent out of the huge volume of new bands, and “a springboard to kick-start […] careers.”
Eddie Wenrick, chief executive of Hitlab.com, said:
“We like to say we’re a baseball farm team before they go to the major leagues.”
The company doesn’t defend that all good music is identical; simply that it shares the same science. There is a run-down of what the program does here.
Source: National Post
