Polyphonic HMI is a music analysis company jointly founded in Barcelona, Spain by Mike McCready and an artificial intelligence firm called Grupo AIA. Its principal product is called "Hit Song Science" (HSS) which uses various
statistical
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and
signal processing
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techniques to help record companies predict whether a particular song will have commercial success.
The software correctly predicted the success of Norah Jones' debut album ''
Come Away with Me
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'' months before it topped the charts, contradicting skeptical studio executives.
Studio 360 commentary
. 01-10-2004. Accessed on: 19-03-2009.
References
Bibliography
*{{cite book , last1=Vernallis , first1=Carol , last2=Herzog , first2=Amy , last3=Richardson , first3=John , title=The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media , date=2015 , publisher=Oxford University Press , isbn=978-0-19-025817-7 , language=en
External links
* Article i
about Polyphonic HMI
Hit Song Science Is Not Yet a Science
- a study that appeared in ISMIR 2008.
Music companies of Spain
Mass media companies of Spain
Mass media in Barcelona