Subscription Plans
Tailored to Your Needs
PRO
- Compositional Profiles for All Songs
- Bi-Monthly Hit Song Technique Analysis
- Hit Song Techniques Library
- Hit Song Search with 200+ Compositional Filters
- Immersion: Real-time Compositional Analytics
- Artist, Writer, Producer and Label Database
- Benchmark Tool
- Hit Song Deconstructed Report Library
- Quarterly Downloadable Logic Projects
$524/year
ESSENTIALS
$19/month or $179/year
- Compositional Profiles for All Songs
- Bi-Monthly Hit Song Technique Analysis
- Hit Song Techniques Library
- Hit Song Search with 200+ Compositional Filters
- Year-End Trend Report
PREMIERE
Everything you get with a PRO subscription plus:
- Inside the Hit Song Matrix
(12-Week Masterclass - value of $549)
- Access to all live online workshops
- Access to videos of past workshops
(12-Week Masterclass - value of $549)
$949/year
PRO
$524/year
- Compositional Profiles for All Songs
- Bi-Monthly Hit Song Technique Analysis
- Hit Song Techniques Library
- Hit Song Search with 200+ Compositional Filters
- Immersion: Real-time Compositional Analytics
- Artist, Writer, Producer and Label Database
- Benchmark Tool
- Hit Song Deconstructed Report Library
- Quarterly Downloadable Logic Projects
ESSENTIALS
$19/month or $179/year
- Compositional Profiles for All Songs
- Bi-Monthly Hit Song Technique Analysis
- Hit Song Techniques Library
- Hit Song Search with 200+ Compositional Filters
- Year-End Trend Report
PREMIERE
$949/year
Everything you get with a PRO subscription plus:
- Inside the Hit Song Matrix
(12-Week Masterclass - value of $549)
- Access to all live online workshops
- Access to videos of past workshops
(12-Week Masterclass - value of $549)
ESSENTIALS PLUS
$29/month or $299/year
$29/month or $299/year
- Everything you get with ESSENTIALS
- Quarterly Hit Song Deconstructed Reports
- Hit Song Deconstructed Report Library
- Quarterly Downloadable Logic Projects
- Live walkthrough's of HSD Report segment 2X month with Q&A
Workshops
Inside the Hit Song Matrix
This hands-on masterclass will pull back the curtain on the patterns behind today’s hits.
3 Months, 6 Classes
Begins March 14th
$549.99
Optimizing Your Song For Commercial Success
This workshop is designed to help you learn how to combine your unique creativity with proven techniques to prime your songs for commercial success.
Optimizing Your Song
For Commercial Success
$79.99
Available for Individual Purchase
The State of the Hot 100 Top 10
This 100+ page super easy-to-digest report will get you in tune with how today’s most successful songs, and the players behind them, are evolving.
Trend Reports
1 Report: $99.99 | 4 Quarterly Reports: $299.99
Hit Song Deconstructed Reports
Take a deep dive into the songwriting and production techniques used to craft some of today’s biggest hits.
Hit Song Deconstructed Reports
$79.99
PRO
$49/month or $524/year
Logic PRO Projects
A visual roadmap showing how today’s biggest hits were written, produced and arranged, highlighting many of the techniques that make them so effective along the way.
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Logic Projects
| PRO | PREMIERE | |
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| Hit Song Deconstructed Reports | Yes | Yes |
| Hit Song Deconstructed Videos | Yes | Yes |
| Songwriting Techniques Archive | Yes | Yes |
| Song Searches | Yes | Yes |
| Compositional Trends | Yes | Yes |
| Industry Trends | Yes | Yes |
| Downloadable Logic Arrangements for Today’s Hits | Yes | Yes |
| Trend Reports | Yes | Yes |
| Video Trend Briefs | No | Yes |
| Inside the Hit Song Matrix (value of $549) | No | Yes |
| On Demand Access to Workshops | No | Yes |
| $524.99/year | $949.99/year |
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Free Trial
- $ 0
- Two-week access to Hit Songs Deconstructed PRO.
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ESSENTIALS
- $ 249.99 /year
- Hit Song Deconstructed Reports (Essentials)
- Quarterly Genres Highlights
- IMMERSION Searchable Database
- HSD Wire
- Hit Song Deconstructed Reports (Essentials)
PRO
- $ 524.99 /year
- Everything the Essentials Plan
offers plus: - Hit Song Deconstructed Reports (PRO)
- Quarterly Trend Report
- ADDITIONAL IMMERSION SEARCHES: Compositional Trend Search
Industry Trend Search
Ability to Save Searches - Access to the Hit Songs Deconstructed Archive
- Everything the Essentials Plan
PREMIERE
- $ 949.00 /year
- Everything the PRO Plan
offers plus: - Complimentary access to Hit Songs Deconstructed Virtual Workshops(value of $299 per workshop).
- Everything the PRO Plan
PREMIERE
- $ 949.00 /year
- Everything the PRO Plan
offers plus: - Complimentary access to Hit Songs Deconstructed Virtual Workshops(value of $299 per workshop).
- Everything the PRO Plan
PREMIERE
- $ 949.00 /year
- Everything the PRO Plan
offers plus: - Complimentary access to Hit Songs Deconstructed Virtual Workshops(value of $299 per workshop).
- Everything the PRO Plan
| Individual Purchase Price | Essentials | Apprentice | Pro | Premiere | Platinum | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compositional Profiles for All Songs (Click for Sample Profile) | N/A | x | x | x | x | x |
| Bi-Monthly Hit Song Technique Analysis (Click for Sample Technique Analysis) | N/A | x | x | x | x | x |
| Hit Song Techniques Library | N/A | x | x | x | x | x |
| Power Search with 200+ Compositional Filters | N/A | x | x | x | x | x |
| Year-End Trend Report (Click for Sample Report) | $99 Each | x | x | x | x | x |
| Quarterly Hit Song Deconstructed Reports (Click for Sample Report) | $99 Each | x | x | x | x | |
| Hit Song Deconstructed Report Library | N/A | x | x | x | x | |
| Quarterly Downloadable Logic Projects (Click for Sample Project) | $79 | x | x | x | x | |
| Logic Project Library | N/A | x | x | x | ||
| Quarterly Trend Reports | $249 Package | x | x | x | ||
| Artist, Writer, Producer and Label Database | N/A | x | x | x | ||
| Benchmark Tool | N/A | x | x | x | ||
| Live walkthrough’s of each Hit Song Deconstructed Report segment with Q&A twice a month | N/A | x | x | x | x | |
| Immersion: Real-time Compositional Analytics | N/A | x | x | |||
| Inside the Hit Song Matrix | $549 | x | x | |||
| Access to all live online workshops | Prices Vary | x | x | |||
| Access to videos of past workshops | $279 | x | x | |||
| Office hours with David Penn Twice a Month | N/A | x | x | x | x | |
| Monthly one-hour private coaching sessions with David Penn | x | |||||
| $19/month | $29/month | $49/month | ||||
| $179/year | $299/year | $524/year | $1,250/year | $2,500 |
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What People Are Saying About Hit Songs Deconstructed
“My entire thought process as a producer, an engineer, a musician, and a songwriter are fleshed out in the pages of the HSD reports.”
Grammy Award winning producer, audio engineer, recording artist and professor, Music Production and Engineering, Berklee College of Music
“ASCAP aims to provide members with a multifaceted toolchest to augment their craft and their careers. Hit Songs Deconstructed is a cutting-edge service that can support our members’ creative process with in-depth data and analysis of current songwriting techniques.”
ASCAP Chief Strategy & Digital Officer
“I am honestly blown away by the amount of information you provide on each of these songs, practically like a thesis deserving of a degree. From a songwriting standpoint, so much of this information is so helpful, and the time-saving benefits are enormous.”
Grammy winning producer/songwriter/recording artist Carlos Santana, Ricky Martin, Ozomatli, Boyz II Men, Selena
“As a songwriter, an important part of my job is to analyze what works in successful songs. By identifying the tools that were employed in hits, writers can incorporate them into their own songs–using techniques that have proven successful–while putting their own spin and unique creative angle on them. HSD does the research for me.”
Songwriter w/50 million album sales and top-selling author, Billboard Books
“I am using HSD’s analysis techniques as a benchmark for my students to apply when analyzing songs, their compositional analytics to keep them in tune with what’s happening now, and the quarterly trend reports to keep them up to speed with who the key industry players are.”
Founding Director, Popular Music Program, Professor of Songwriting, USC Thornton School of Music
“Whether you want to work with the current trends or against them, HSD is a powerful tool in music production strategy.”
Director of Music Production, Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology
“I highly recommend Hit Songs Deconstructed. It is an insightful and detailed description of the craft of writing hit music for today’s music markets. I read it every month to keep sharp, and ahead of the curve.”
Co-Founder, Creative Director, and Producer, Studio 51 Music
“As a Creative Director for a large music publisher, I find the site VERY valuable. I’m a fan.”
Creative Director, Universal Music Publishing Group / Brentwood Benson
“You have given songwriters a great new tool, the beauty of which is that it reflects current trends.”
Author of The Craft and Business of Songwriting
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Hit Songs Deconstructed In the News
Our mission is to provide you with tools to help you give you an edge for success in today's rapidly evolving musical landscape.
Go beyond a listen, go beyond a deconstruction
- immerse yourself in the hits.
Songwriters, composers, engineers, and producers are utilizing Hit Songs Deconstructed to:
- Hone their craft by studying proven current hits.
- Continually update their toolbox with the latest writing and production techniques being used in today’s hits as they become available.
- Understand WHY today’s hits connect with such a wide audience.
- Gain insight into how to successfully channel unique creativity into commercially viable songs.
- Develop an instinctual approach to writing songs for mainstream success.
- Make more targeted pitches to music libraries and production houses who are looking for current sounding music and/or sound-alike’s for spots.
- Give themselves an edge in a very competitive music industry.
Music industry professionals, such as publishers, labels, music libraries, production houses are using Hit Songs Deconstructed to:
- Make informed decisions in a fast-paced musical landscape.
- Stay ahead of the curve by spotting current, evolving, and waning trends.
- Supplement sales, streaming, engagement, and radio airplay data with insight into the compositional trends behind those numbers.
- Gain insight into what current hit songs have in common – and what is setting them apart.
- Identify the key ingredients that are making current chart-topping songs “tick.”
- Improve communication between creative executives / A&R’s and writers.
- Quantify gut feelings for hit songwriting trends with factual data.
- Benchmark new songs and artists against those with a proven track record.