The Science Behind ScoreAHit  At ScoreAHit, we apply the above
quote to the UK popular music charts. How and why do we do this?
Below is a more technical description of how we use mathematics
and Artificial Intelligence techniques to infer the hit
potential equation.  Task Description We are interested in the
Music Information Retrieval task that aims at predicting whether
a given song will be a commercial success prior to its
distribution, based on its audio. The underlying assumption is
that popular songs are similar with respect to a set of features
that make them appealing to a majority of people. These features
could then be exploited by Machine Learning algorithms in order
to predict whether a song will rise to a high peak position in
the chart. Machine Learning is a branch of Artificial
Intelligence concerned with learning to perform a task based on
examples -- in this case learning to predict hit potential based
on past hits and non-hits.  An Investigation of UK Top 40
Singles Chart The dataset we inv