The beat goes on
The next hit song you buy could have its musical ingredients selected by artificial-intelligence programs to ensure it makes it up the charts
In the year ahead, predicting which song will rise to the top of the charts is going to become less of a hit-and-miss affair. Until now, even the best music producers have got it wrong more often than they have got it right. Fortunes spent on promotion have been squandered on bad songs. So anything that can reduce the unpredictability in selecting songs can potentially save millions in mis-spent revenue.
Discover more
1843 magazine | A journey through the world’s newest narco-state
Drugs transformed Ecuador from a Latin American success story into a war zone
1843 magazine | The radioactive flood threatening Central Asia’s breadbasket
What it’s like to live with nuclear waste on your doorstep
1843 magazine | Why I gave up trying to delete myself from the internet
An enjoyable trip down memory lane soon became a boring full-time job
1843 magazine | True believers built Trump’s social-media company. They feel betrayed
The inside story of Truth Social
1843 magazine | Why aren’t Harris and Trump listening to Pennsylvania’s steelworkers?
The candidates oppose the takeover of US Steel. But employees want it to go ahead
1843 magazine | The Democrats want Tim Walz to speak to rural Americans. They aren’t listening
Voters in his old congressional district have gone off him