Can You Find The Hits Without Asking The Audience?

Written Oct. 30, 2006 by Sean Ross in Internet Radio with 0 Comments

I've been intrigued with Pandora.com for a while now. The Internet application that starts with your list of artists or songs and finds others with similar musical qualities has generally been more predictive (not to mention less intrusive) than similar applications at iTunes Music Store or Amazon.com. So I wondered, what would happen if I gave Pandora a list of recent Top 40 hits and asked it to find some other compatible songs? Was it possible to find songs the audience might like without having to even ask them? The resulting list looked a lot more like KCRW than KIIS-FM, but see it all here.

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