My “Hit Formula”: Three Steps, From Imitation to Innovation
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乌龟哥🐢 is an Algorithm Operations Engineer with the Algorithm Team. With a passion for enhancing user experience and addressing feedback, he is dedicated to refining our algorithms and services. His role involves collaborating with the team to implement innovative solutions that align with our users’ needs and expectations.
Today, whether a song can become popular might hinge on its ability to capture a listener’s ear within just 15 seconds.
For music A&R professionals searching for the next big hit and for ordinary people aspiring to create popular music, how can one accurately predict and produce the next “earworm”?
I discovered that by using the AI tool Tunee, this process can become as simple as filling in the blanks. Below is the complete process I used to “calculate” a song with hit potential, which might offer you some new inspiration.
Step 1: Let the AI Become Your A-list Producer to Decipher the Pop Code
The fastest way to create a trend is to analyze the trend.
The first thing I did was to have Tunee act as my “market analyst” and “A-list producer.”
I didn’t give it complex instructions. Instead, I made a request as if I were chatting with a person. The core of this operation is to delegate the professional analysis work to the AI.
It will help you summarize the “hit formula” and turn it into a creative prompt that you can use directly.
Sample Prompt:
“Help me analyze the recent popular electronic dance music on TikTok. Please pick the most popular one, analyze its structure, arrangement, melody, and lyrical theme, and then generate a new song by applying these characteristics.”
Step 2: Generate Your “Hit Song” Material Library with a Single Sentence
After getting the “hit formula” summarized by the AI, I directly asked it to generate a similar song for me based on its characteristics.
Tunee quickly provided me with several different versions to choose from.
This process is like opening a music blind box, and I soon found the “hidden gem”—an electronic dance track with an extremely catchy melody and a strong rhythm. I almost immediately determined that its chorus had the potential to become a hit.
For an A&R professional, this means you can obtain a large number of demos for screening at a low cost in a very short amount of time, greatly increasing the efficiency of discovering a hit song.
Step 3: Promote the Highlight Clip on Social Media (Crucial!!!)
A full song might be 3 minutes long, but a viral video only needs 15 seconds.
From this demo, I quickly identified the most “addictive” melodic fragment. In the past, editing this out would require professional audio software, but now, even ordinary users can do it with ease.
This feature makes the “commodification” of music simpler than ever. You can quickly create a “hook” suitable for promotion on platforms like TikTok to test the market’s reaction. If a clip goes viral, you already have the complete song ready for immediate release.
You can use a simple lyric video creation function or the MV feature to extract the most “addictive” melody clip for video generation.
A New Possibility
Through these three steps, what we get is not just a song, but a complete “hit incubation” solution:
•For A&R: This is a new model for testing market trends efficiently and at a low cost. You can quickly verify a song’s hit potential with an AI-generated demo before signing an artist or investing a huge production budget.
•For the Average User: The barrier to creation has been completely broken. You don’t need to understand music theory or know how to arrange music. As long as you have an idea and can perceive popular trends, you have the potential to create the next BGM that sweeps the internet.