The Hit Equation So here it is! This page is a high-level
description of our Hit Equation, and some of the fun we can have
with it. If you're interested in a more technical description,
see The Science Behind ScoreAHit. Here, we aim to provide some
insight into these questions: - What are the features of a
perfect hit song? - Is there an equation describing a hit? - Are
there any features which are changing importance through the
ages? Above you can see some of the features we use to classify
songs into 'hits' or 'flops'. You can see that we use the
energy, tempo, danceability, loudness and other higher-level
features such as harmonic simplicity (how simple the chord
sequence is) and non-harmonicity (how 'noisy' the song is). Note
that we do not take into account factors external to the audio,
such as marketing budget used to promote the song, the music
video, the prior popularity of the artist or band, social
factors, lyrics, etc. Of course these factors are extremely
important, so not including them will in