Hit Songs Deconstructed helps songwriters, producers, publishers, labels, and other music industry professionals stay informed, hone their craft, spot trends, and make strategic songwriting, production and business decisions in a fast-changing musical landscape.
What does a PRO subscription include?
Quarterly Hit Song Analysis Reports:
The Inner-Workings of Hit Songs
Our flagship report, The Hit Song Deconstructed Report provides unparalleled insight into the inner-workings of a current chart-topping hit. Leaving no stone unturned, you will learn what makes the song so effective and come away with an array of tools and techniques to help you channel your unique creativity for success.
Each report includes a combination of commentary, charts, graphs, and notation. Among the many areas covered are song structure, energy, genres and influences, instruments and accompaniment, harmony, vocal production and melody, lyrics, rhymes, narrative, Top 10 benchmarking and more.
Each report also features a companion downloadable Logic PRO X Project with the correct meter, tempo and song arrangement displayed as empty MIDI regions for each instrument.
The IMMERSION Searchable Database:
Songwriting Analytics You Won't Find Anywhere Else
Updated weekly as songs enter the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10, this robust, fully interactive database houses proprietary data for the compositional characteristics of those songs, as well as related industry data for songwriters, artists, producers and record labels.
Searches include the ability to search for compositional and industry trends, find songs with very specific compositional characteristics, and compare compositional characteristics across songs, songwriters, artists, producers, and record labels.
Every song in the database includes a dedicated page detailing its key compositional characteristics related to genres and influences, lead vocal, lyrics and song structure, as well as other useful information such chart position, links to lyrics, the official video and more.
Quarterly Hit Song Analysis Videos:
Narrated and Visualized in Logic Pro X
These videos take you on a section-by-section walkthrough – from intro to outro – of the songwriting and production techniques used to craft a chart-topping hit.
Videos are led by Hit Songs Deconstructed co-founder, David Penn, they are approximately one hour long, and each section is visualized with its arrangement in Logic Pro X.
A Searchable Library of Songwriting Techniques:
Hooks, Genre Fusion, Duet Structure, and Much More
This archive, culled from today’s biggest hits, include examples of an array of hook techniques, techniques to hook the listener in and leave them wanting more, genre fusion techniques, duet structure techniques, and much more.
The Quarterly Trend Report:
A Deep Dive into Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 Trends
Published on a quarterly basis, this report delivers a concise, data-driven snapshot of Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 compositional and industry trends.
Among the many topics covered are compositional trends such as genres, influences, instruments, tempo, key and song structure characteristics. On the industry side, we cover an array of artist, writer and label trends such as chart performance (staying power, placement, and prominence), single artist vs. featured artists, songwriter/artist collaborations and more.
A PREMIERE subscription also includes:
Writing and Producing with a Hit Song Mentality
(value of $349 each)
Twice a year, Hit Songs Deconstructed runs its signature workshop, Writing & Producing with a Hit Song Mentality.
This intensive two-day, 6-hour workshop will transform the way you approach your craft and is designed to help you immediately take your craft to the next level, connect with a wider audience, capitalize on trends, and channel your creativity for commercial success.
Through guided critical listening exercises and dynamic visual aids, we take a deep dive into proven techniques culled from recent hits. Each segment features examples from some of today’s most successful songs to illustrate trends and techniques pertaining to the Hot 100 Top 10 as a whole, as well as non-Hip Hop and Hip Hop genres individually.
Among the many topics covered are trends, structure, energy & dynamics, vocal melody & production, hooks, lyrics, genres & influences, and much more.
As a PREMIERE subscriber, you receive complimentary admission to all virtual workshop as well as unlimited access to all on-demand workshop videos for the duration of your subscription (value of $349 per workshop).
The Quarterly Trend Brief Video:
Exclusive to Institutional and Premiere Subscribers
At the beginning of each quarter, Hit Songs Deconstructed offers Institutional and Premiere subscribers a Trend Brief. This on-demand video delivers a concise, data-driven snapshot of the compositional and industry trends for the songs that land in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.
Among the many topics covered are compositional trends such as genres, influences, instruments, tempo, key and song structure characteristics. On the industry side, we cover an array of artist, writer and label trends such as chart performance (staying power, placement, and prominence), single artist vs. featured artists, songwriter/artist collaborations and more.
How will you benefit from a subscription?
Hit Songs Deconstructed helps you understand today's mainstream music scene at the compositional level. It provides you with cutting-edge tools to make informed songwriting, production and business decisions armed with actual hit songwriting analytics.
Songwriters, producers, and engineers use HSD to:
- Channel unique artistic vision to connect with the widest possible audience
- Stay on the cutting edge with the latest songwriting and production techniques
- Get through the door – and stay in the door – with publishers and labels
- Develop an instinctual approach to writing songs for mainstream success
- Stay current and relevant in a fast-changing musical landscape
Publishers, labels, music libraries, and production houses use HSD to:
- Gain a broader and deeper understanding today’s mainstream music 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
- Maximize communication between A&R, Creative Execs, Artists, Writers and Producers
- Quantify “gut feelings” with factual data