Meant To Be’s Prosody Perfection
Meant To Be is a collaboration between Pop artist Bebe Rexha and Country duo Florida Georgia Line. At just 2:41 in length, this record setting song (40 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and counting), packs…
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The Middle’s Melody Magic
The Middle, Zedd’s most recent megahit, has been a long time coming. A collaboration with electronic duo Grey (who Zedd also worked with on 2016’s Starving), the song had been in production for quite some time but they had yet…
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Billboard Chart Beat Podcast: Camila Cabello’s ‘Havana’ Deconstructed
Billboard Chart Beat's Gary Trust and Trevor Anderson welcome back Dave and Yael Penn, co-founders of Hit Songs Deconstructed, as they analyze the compositional characteristics and songwriting and production techniques that helped make Camila Cabello's "Havana," featuring Young Thug, a No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit.
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Highlights from the Q1 2018 Hit Songs Deconstructed Trend Report
On the surface Havana might seem like just another Pop song, but when you look under the hood you can see how meticulously well-crafted and clever it really is. Not only does it capitalize on some of today's hottest trends, such as Hip Hop, Trap,…
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Ooh na na! Havana’s Hook Maximization Techniques Deconstructed
On the surface Havana might seem like just another Pop song, but when you look under the hood you can see how meticulously well-crafted and clever it really is. Not only does it capitalize on some of today's hottest trends, such as Hip Hop, Trap,…
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Hit Songs Deconstructed Adds New Interactive Report to Its Robust Platform
Introducing the Industry Trend Report Artists, Songwriters, Producers, Labels, and Collaborations This new interactive report keeps you in tune with the artists, songwriters, producers, and labels topping the Billboard Hot 100 and the compositional trends for their songs. Notable features…
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Hip Hop Vs. Pop: Which Hooks You Faster?
In 2017, Hip Hop/Rap and Pop were the two most prominent genres in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. One of them, however, hooked the listener in with the first chorus faster than the other. Which one? The…
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Chart Beat Podcast: What songwriting and production characteristics that defined some of 2017’s biggest hits
Yael and Dave Penn of Hit Songs Deconstructed return to the podcast for the first of a two-part look back at the songwriting and production characteristics that defined some of 2017’s biggest hits. Among the key trends of top 10…
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Introducing Three New Powerful Features
We’ve added three powerful new searches to the IMMERSION database! They include brand new producer and song searches and an enhanced power search. These are the first in a series of exciting new feature releases we will be announcing throughout…
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