In the music market, superstars significantly dominate the market share, while predicting the top hit songs is notoriously difficult. The music intelligence technology, retrieving and utilizing granular acoustic features of songs, provides opportunities to improve the prediction of top hit...

The short period right after the release of a song is typically associated with extensive publicity and the highest sales. However, these songs are found immediately after their release, and sometimes well before the release date, on P2P networks. Not surprisingly, the industry considers this so...