What makes good music?
HIT songs are big business, so there's an incentive for composers to try to disfigure those ingredients that increase their chances of success.However, this is difficult.Numbers are complex mixtures of functions.How to analyze them is not obvious and is further complicated by the fact that what popular changes are changes over time.
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Natalia Komarova, a mathematician at the University of California, Irvine, thinks she has deciphered the problem.With her computer analysis, she suggests that the songs currently preferred by consumers are danceable, party-like songs.Unfortunately, those who write songs prefer something else. Dr Komarova and her colleagues collected information about music released in the UK between 1985 and 2015. They looked at public music repositories for “metadata” that is used by music lovers and is often overheard by academics.They compared what they found in these repositories to what had hit the charts.Metadata is information about the nature of a song that can give listeners an idea of what that song looks like before they hear it.
Analysis of hit songs
