{"id":614,"date":"2004-02-17T23:04:10","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T04:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/hit-song-science\/"},"modified":"2004-02-17T23:04:10","modified_gmt":"2004-02-18T04:04:10","slug":"hit-song-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/hit-song-science\/","title":{"rendered":"hit song science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a while ago,  i left a footnote (of all things) on <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/active_versus_passive_music_consumption.html\">here<\/a> about hit-picking technology,  and since then i&#8217;ve had a couple questions about it.<\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s one example that will get some of you up to speed:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitsongscience.com\/\" class=\"broken_link\">hit song science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>i guess their claim to fame is norah jones &#8211; their math said something like 8 of the tracks on her first album could be hits.  while it only really takes one,  norah managed to sell 8 million+ copies of that disc.  that&#8217;s only really interesting when you compare how different &#8220;don&#8217;t know why&#8221; was compared to the rest of the noise on the pop charts.<\/p>\n<p>does it work?  can you reduce music to math?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a while ago, i left a footnote (of all things) on here about hit-picking technology, and since then i&#8217;ve had a couple questions about it. here&#8217;s one example that will get some of you up to speed: hit song science. i guess their claim to fame is norah jones &#8211; their math said something like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}