Aren music labels supposed to be looking for new and fresh sounds that would not be anything like past hit music?
Absolutely. Historically, what is pleasing to the human ear has not changed since man began writing music. What has changed are styles, performances, the instruments used and the way music is produced and recorded, but a compelling melody is still compelling and a series of random notes still sounds random to us. That is not to say everything has been invented, however so far, every new style of music that has come into being: country, rock, punk, grunge etc. have all had similar mathematical patterns and the hits in those genres have all come from the same hit clusters that exist today and anything that has fallen outside of those clusters has rarely been successful for it’s musical qualities. For an explanation of a hit cluster please see our technology section.
