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Empower Yourself with Cutting-Edge Tools that Keep You in Tune with the Craft and Trends Driving Today’s Hits

Hit Songs Deconstructed is the only resource that unites compositional analytics for the Hot 100 Top 10 with analysis of the songwriting and production techniques that went into crafting them.

Our mission is to provide powerful interactive tools, data, and analysis to support your creative process, stay in tune with how today’s hits are evolving, and make strategic songwriting, production and business decisions.

A Subscription Includes

Hit Songs Deconstructed Reports
  • In-depth analysis of chart-topping hits
  • Each comprehensive deconstruction is 100+ pages long
  • Segments are published every two weeks
  • Includes companion DAW Project (Logic)

Hit Song Deconstructions

A Library of 45+ Hit Songs Deconstructed Reports

The Hit Song Deconstructed reports provide unparalleled analysis of today's hits.

Each deconstruction breaks down a current hit to its foundational building blocks and pulls back the curtain on the patterns and science behind how the song was written, produced and arranged.  

Leaving no stone unturned, everything is presented in a clear and concise manner and is complimented with unique Hit Songs Deconstructed visualizations that can be used to assess your own songs for strengths and weaknesses as well.

Among them are the HSD melodic parts tables and graphs, rhyme scheme tables, narrative structure tables, energy graphs, and more.

Each report is published in six segments every two weeks, and analyze:

  • Structure, Genres and Sub-Genre Fusion
  • Instruments and Arrangement
  • Energy and Dynamics
  • Vocal Melody and Vocal Production
  • Lyrics and Rhymes
  • Benchmark, Highlights & Takeaways

By reading these deconstructions, you'll become privy to the same tools and techniques today's hitmakers are using. 

The insight you'll gain will take your craft to the next level, guaranteed.

Downloadable DAWs

A visual roadmap for understanding how today's hits are arranged.

Every Hit Song Deconstruction includes a downloadable DAW project (Logic).

Using empty MIDI regions to visualize the instrumental arrangement, effects, energy, vocal melody and production, structure, select techniques and more, these DAW projects provide you with a visual roadmap for understanding how today’s hits were effectively arranged.

By watching as you listen, you will gain valuable insight into the strategic decisions today’s hitmakers made to help prime their songs for maximum impact, giving you a host of new tools, techniques, and ideas to help take your own songs to the next level.

Hit Songs Deconstructed Logic Projects
Hit Songs Deconstructed Techniques Library
  • Select the songwriting technique you are looking for
  • Use additional filters such as date range, peak chart position, artist, songwriter and more to fine-tune your search
  • Choose a particular song that uses the technique to study
  • Techniques analyses include a detailed explanation of the technique, visualizations, and direct links to the sections of the song where the technique is being used so that you can hear it in action

A Searchable Database of Songwriting Techniques

Fuel your inspiration with the techniques that helped today’s most successful songs become global hits!

Want to maximize the impact of your hooks? Or looking for examples of sub-genre fusion techniques? Or ways to incorporate audience participation moments into your song?

Then look no further! Updated on a monthly basis, this interactive searchable database houses hundreds of the most effective techniques used in Hot 100 Top 10 hits.

Techniques include: Hook Techniques, Intro Techniques, Outro Techniques, Duet/Group Lead Vocal Structure Techniques, Audience Participation Moment Techniques, Energy Techniques, Section Impact Accentuator Techniques, Sub-Genre Fusion Techniques, Chorus Vocal Structure Techniques, Departure Section Techniques, Prosody Techniques, and Rhyme Techniques (with more technique categories to come!)

Reference Track Search

200+ filters to find the exact song you are looking for with the click of a button.

Need reference tracks? Mix and match 200+ compositional filters to find Hot 100 Top 10 songs with very specific compositional characteristics.


In addition, this tool can be used to:

  • See how your song stacks up against proven hits with similar compositional characteristics
  • Get insight for ways to take your song to the next level and/or give it a unique spin
  • Understand the space you are looking to compete in
  • Or simply get inspired!
  • Select your filters and click search
  • Select your song
  • Drill down to a dedicated page with key compositional characteristics, lyrics, Spotify links, the official video, and more


Hit Songs Deconstructed Reference Track Search

Search Filters include:

  • Date Range by Quarter or Year
  • Seasonal Comparisons
  • Peak Chart Position
  • Staying Power (Weeks in the Top 10)
  • New Songs vs. Carryovers
  • Primary Genres
  • Specific Songwriters, Artists, Producers and Labels

Unlike AI-Powered analytics, each song is manually analyzed and every data point is vetted in accordance with HSD's proprietary methodologies for accuracy.

Compositional Analytics

Round out your toolbox with songwriting analytics for today's most successful songs.

Looking for insight into what today's hits have in common? Or want to spot trends on the rise, or in decline? Or need to back up gut feelings with factual data? 

This powerful, fully interactive database provides you with critical insight into how the current musical landscape is evolving with valuable, real-time intelligence on the compositional characteristics of the songs that land in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.

Hundreds of different searches keep you in tune with what’s driving the Hot 100 Top 10 at the compositional level. Trends are visualized with graphs and tables with each data point linking to a list of the corresponding songs.

Search for trends pertaining to primary genres, sub-genres/influences, instruments, lead vocals (gender, vocal delivery, etc.), lyrics (lyrical theme, title placement and appearances, etc.), song structure (key, tempo, song length, song form, etc.), song sections (intro characteristics, first chorus occurrence, post-chorus types, etc.), and much more.

Save your most important searches to your dashboard for easy access!

Benchmark Tool

Compare and contrast compositional characteristics across songs, artists, songwriters, producers and labels.

This powerful tool gives you the ability to compare and contrast any of the compositional characteristics in The Immersion Database across songs, artists, songwriters, producers and labels.


  • Gain insight into a specific body of work of a particular artist, songwriter, producer or label
  • Understand what compositional characteristics a select group of songs have in common
  • Discover how songs stand out from the pack by going against the grain
  • Make targeted pitches by researching what creates the signature sound of a particular artist, producer, or songwriter

Trend searches include number of songs in the Top 10, weeks in the Top 10, trends for featured artist, genre breakdown, team size, and more.


Searches can be filtered in a multitude of ways including by date range, primary genre, peak chart position, among others.


All search results include links to the corresponding songs and profile pages.

Artist, Songwriter, Producer and Label Database

Stay in tune with the artists, writers, producers, and labels behind today’s hits and the trends behind them.

Every artist, songwriter, producer and label has its own personal profile detailing which artists, songwriters, producers and labels they’ve collaborated with, their compositional profile, charting information and a link to their Twitter and Instagram pages.

Hit Songs Deconstructed Quarterly Trend Reports

The State of the Hot 100 Top 10 Delivered to You Every Quarter

Today’s hits are changing faster than ever, from the songwriting and production techniques used to craft them to the influences and instruments shaping their sound. To stay ahead of the curve, it's critical to proactively stay on top of what's driving today’s most successful songs at the compositional level. The Hit Songs Deconstructed trend reports deliver an easy-to-digest snapshot of the trends driving each quarter’s top 10.

A deconstruction of the most recent quarter's new arrivals, and how they differ from the songs that carried over from the previous quarter.

This report delivers an in-depth look at trends for all the compositional categories we track, including primary genres, sub-genres, lead vocals, lyrical themes, instruments, key, tempo, song length, song structure, and much more.

A deconstruction of the compositional characteristics that are unique to #1 hits.

A deconstruction of the compositional characteristics that are unique to songs that chart for 10+ weeks in the top 10..

A spotlights on hip hop and non-hip hop songs that details the trends unique to each.

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