supports your creative process.
today’s most successful songs
become global hits.
through a deeper understanding
of today’s hits.
Hit Songs Deconstructed is Used By
Powerful tools, data and analysis to take your craft to the next level.
Hit Songs Deconstructed empowers creatives and music industry professionals to create and release music that competes at the highest levels through unparalleled insight into the craft and trends behind today’s hits.
Top 10 Compositional Analytics
The Hit Songs Deconstructed Reports
Quarterly Trend Reports
The Hit Songs Deconstructed
Logic Projects
The Hit Song
Reference Track Database
The Hot 100 The Top 10
Artist, Songwriter, Producer and Label Database
The Hit Song
Benchmark Tool
The Hot 100 Top 10
Searchable Techniques Database
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I find the site VERY valuable. I’m a fan.
Eric Hurt
VP, A&R Publishing / Nashville at EMPIRE
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Spot on with the analysis and relevant to any music theory, composer, songwriter, or producer in the game now.
- Dr. O
Producer, Young M.A., Chris Brown, Lil Wayne
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"Even though I’ve been writing professionally for over ten years, I’ve found several nuggets of gold that have improved my writing already."
Roy Stride
Hit Songwriter, Producer, Artist
One Direction, 5 Seconds of Summer, Scouting for Girls
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My entire thought process as a producer, an engineer, a musician, and a songwriter are fleshed out in the pages of the HSD reports.
Prince Charles Alexander
Grammy winning, multi-platinum music producer, mixing engineer
and professor at Berklee College of Music
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Some producers have a hit or two by sheer fluke/talent and the subconscious knowledge of a lifetime of growing up with music. However, making hits songs consistently is not just about talent and the occasional fluke. There is a science to the art of making hit music.
Hit Songs Deconstructed will equip you with tools that will allow you to make hit songs more consistently.
Lyburn Geldenhuis
A&R/Producer/Songwriter/Mixing Engineer
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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.
Nick Lehman
ASCAP Chief Strategy & Digital Officer
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Hit Songs Deconstructed has really pushed my music to a competitive level. The instructors are at the top of their game, detailed, and cover absolutely everything that's happening in current, charting successful music.
JULAPINK
Pop Recording Artist
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The way songs are broken down is extremely useful in really solidifying your understanding of what's happening in the most popular music, and how you can incorporate it in your own.
Omar Zulfi
Music Artist/Producer, Deviant Noise
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As a songwriter and educator, I am truly impressed with the scientific approach that HSD has employed in the forensic breakdown of the process of writing hit songs. Well done HSD for providing the songwriting community with invaluable information and analysis.
Carl Corcoran
Songwriter/Broadcaster/Industry Consultant/Director of MA Songwriting Irish World Academy University of Limerick, Board Member Music Network Ireland
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I have never seen hit songs broken down in such an accurate and detailed way.
Jerome Baylor
Songwriter, Composer, Lyricist, Topline Writer, Beat Producer
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I can't stress enough how important
HSD is to any serious
professional hit songwriter.
Hilton Wright II //
Record Producer/Songwriter
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I am stunned by the WEALTH of information available through this program, and the manner in which it was presented. Very impressive!
Nick Martin
Educator/Songwriter
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Hit Songs Deconstructed is in a class of its own. Shedding in-depth analysis for those ready to consume it. From singer songwriter through production, to industry and market trends. No one does it like HSD.
Andre Jarreau
Songwriter
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Tons of fantastic tips and information on how to create hit songs. I learned so much!
Brett Steelhammer
Songwriter
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Unbelievable wealth of knowledge to adopt into my songwriting and productions.
Christopher Stephen Nicholas
Songwriter
THE HSD WIRE
CREATE MUSIC
that competes at the highest level through a deeper understanding of today’s hits.
“Hit Songs Deconstructed has really pushed my music to a competitive level."
JULAPINK
Pop Recording Artist
I'm such a better songwriter now than I ever have been, and it's in large part due to Hit Songs Deconstructed, the reports, the masterclasses and the private coaching. I am so glad I found you guys, it has been a game-changer."
Omar Zulfi
Songwriter/Producer
"Relevant to any music theory, composer, songwriter, or producer in the game now.”
Dr. O
Producer, Young M.A., Chris Brown, Lil Wayne
"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."
Nick Lehman
ASCAP, Chief Strategy & Digital Officer
"My entire thought process as a producer, an engineer, a musician, and a songwriter are fleshed out in the pages of the HSD reports."
"Prince" Charles Alexander
Professor, Music Production & Engineering/Commercial Record Production, Berklee College of Music
Grammy-winning, multi-platinum producer, audio engineer, and recording artist
“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 their own unique creative angle on them. HSD does the research for me. It’s an amazing tool--and one I highly recommend.”
Jason Blume
Songwriter w/50 million albumsales/top-selling author, Billboard Books
“Hit Songs Deconstructed is very useful. Recommend it to all."
Sandy Chen
Songwriter, Warner Chappell Music
"The depth, detail and level of care that Hit Songs Deconstructed exercises in their song analysis is something I want my students to aspire to."
Chris Sampson
Director of Popular Music Pedagogy
Founding Director of Popular Music Program
USC Thornton School of Music
“What I learn from these workshops and the Hit Songs Deconstructed website in one month would take me years to figure out on my own.
George Haughton
Educator/Songwriter
"I've been writing professionally for over ten years but I've found several nuggets of gold in each presentation that have improved my writing already.”
Roy Stride
Hit Songwriter, Producer, Artist
One Direction, 5 Seconds of Summer, Scouting for Girls
“Seeing what I usually hear in a visual form really solidifies things.
Carrie Cunnignham
Singer, songwriter, live sound engineer, auctioneer, CEO of Sound Barn Publishing
“Hit Songs Deconstructed ran one of the most thorough, well-presented and thought-out master classes on pop writing I have ever experienced."
Jay Rodriguez
Grammy nominated musician, film composer, producer and arranger
Prince, Elvis Costello, Miley Cyrus, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Akon, Wu Tang Clan, DJ Premiere, Guru
"Hit Songs Deconstructed is a great teaching tool and an extremely valuable resource for my songwriting students. We’ve made it an integral part of the songwriting curriculum at MTSU."
Odie Blackmon
Associate Professor, Middle Tennessee State University
Adjunct Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music
Grammy nominated songwriter w/20 million album sales