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Hit Songs Deconstructed keeps you plugged into what’s driving today’s hits and capturing listeners’ hearts. 

What song qualities are connecting with audiences and why?

Which songwriting and production techniques are driving songs to the top of the charts?

What compositional trends are on the rise and in decline?

How is the popular music landscape evolving?

Which Plan is Right for You?

Hit-Scope

A Database of the Techniques Fueling Today's Hits

  • 52 New Technique Case Studies per Year >> Every Tuesday, a new technique case study extracted from a current hit will be delivered right to your inbox.
  • Unlimited Access to the Hit-Scope Database >> The Hit-Scope database features 200+ examples of the most effective techniques found in Hot 100 top 10 hits spanning various genres. Filter by technique type and save techniques you want to revisit!
  • HSD-Connect >> Exclusive entry into our private, invitation-only community where you can connect with like-minded songwriters, producers and artists.
  • Cancel at Any Time >>  We are not here to lock you into a long-term contract. You can cancel your renewal at any time.

$

199

/year

HSD ESSENTIALS

The Craft Behind Today's Hits

Everything included in Hit-Scope plus:

$

429

/year

HSD PRO

The Craft and Trends Behind Today's Hits

Everything included in Hit-Scope & Essentials plus:

  • The IMMERSION Database >> Round out your toolbox with songwriting analytics for today's most successful songs. Trends are visualized with graphs and tables with each data point linking to a list of the corresponding songs.
  • Industry Trend Database >> Stay in tune with the artists, writers, producers, and labels behind today’s hits and the trends behind them.
  • Benchmark Tool >> Gain insight into a body of work by comparing and contrasting compositional characteristics across songs, artists, songwriters, producers and labels.
  • Trend Reports >> In-depth reports providing a comprehensive breakdown of the trends driving each quarter’s top 10.

$

729

/year

What Industry Executives Are Saying About Hit Songs Deconstructed

"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

Chief Strategy & Digital Officer, ASCAP

"I find the site VERY valuable. I’m a fan."

Eric Hurt

VP, A&R Publishing / Nashville at EMPIRE

"Hit Songs Deconstructed reveals so much detail about things you might never have noticed before in hit songs, but are right in front of you. They go beyond identifying what works and explain WHY it works."

Jem Aswad

Executive Editor, Music at Variety

What Songwriters & Producers Are Saying About Hit Songs Deconstructed

"I can't stress enough how important HSD is to any serious professional hit songwriter."

Hilton Wright II

Record Producer/Songwriter, Billboard #1 RIAA Platinum & Gold winning songwriter & producer, (Drake, Mike Posner, black•𝘪𝘴𝘩)

"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."

Jason Blume

Songwriter w/50 million album sales

"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

"Spot on with the analysis and relevant to any composer, songwriter, or producer in the game now.”

Dr. O

Producer, Young M.A., Chris Brown, Lil Wayne

"I was blown away by the Max Martin Hits masterclass. So thorough and insightful - a great blend of theory and art."

Amy Sky

Recording Artist, Songwriter, Producer, 3x SOCAN-winning singer-songwriter

"I’m going on 40 years of working with top-level artists and you have made me understand even better all the things I’ve learned over the years working with them.

Thanks much for all you do." 

Khaliq Glover

Grammy Award Winning Recording Engineer (We Are the World, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera),

What Leading Popular Music Programs Are Saying About Hit Songs Deconstructed

“I have been giving hit record analysis exercises to my students for years, but the level of depth in a single Hit Songs Deconstructed report is a full semester’s worth of information. My entire thought process as a producer, an engineer, a musician, and a songwriter are fleshed out in the pages of the HSD reports. It is such a great tool that I’m  integrating it into the songwriting and music production curriculums.”

"Prince" Charles Alexander

Grammy Award winning producer, audio engineer, recording artist and professor, Music Production and Engineering, Berklee College of 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. I am using their analysis techniques as a benchmark for them 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.  Additionally, it’s a huge time-saver when it comes to prepping for classes.  I can pick any compositional variable in the database based on what I’m going to be discussing in a lecture and easily find examples of current hits."

Chris Sampson

Founding Director, Popular Music Program, USC Thornton School of Music

"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 and I’m thrilled to say that Middle Tennessee State University is at the forefront of songwriting education as a result of this partnership."

Odie Blackmon

Middle Tennessee State University, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Lecturer of Music, Award Winning Hit Songwriter

Give yourself competitive edge! 

Hit Songs Deconstructed is used by leading songwriters, producers, labels, publishers and universities around the world.

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