AI program selects hitsongs

[BigMole]

According to many news sources the Spanish company Polyphonic HMI have invented an artificial intelligence software called "Hit Song Science". The program can tell in advance if a new song will be a hit. According to several sources five major music labels have been using the software for some time now.

So now we know why all new songs sound the same. They are selected by a computer!

Ananova has a good article on the subject:
Juke box jury computer program predicts hit songs
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_759785.html?menu=

[method77]

all songs don't sound the same...

[narz]

Great....thats all we need...more prefabricated teenie bopper crap that sounds the same as every other track played on TV and radio.

[Winphuk]

Maybe we should just have the computer write music too.

[matt merch]

they used that software to predict the popularity of norah jones