Community Blog - Page 19

Love, lust, and angst were among the biggest subjects of teen love songs back in the 50s and early 60s at a time where the idols of the day – no longer your mom and pop’s crooners – commanded the radio charts. I was luckily exposed to these at a very young age through cassette tapes, specifically the Cruisin’ Classics compilations sold by Shell gas stations in 1989 and 1990 for $1.99 a pop. 

Remembering the Compilation CD That Introduced Me to Jazz

Have you ever wondered which keys are the most popular in recorded music? Here at Pandora, our Music Analysis team has just finished analyzing a batch of 34,324 songs and we thought you might want to know what the dominant tonalities of those are.

A Day in the Life of a Music Analyst

An interview with Music Analyst Kevin Seal

Who are the Music Analysts at the core of the Music Genome Project, driving the best music recommendation system in the world on Pandora? We are a team of musicians who listen to songs and tag them with musicological, lyrical, genre, and mood data. Today I interviewed one of our Music Analysts, Kevin Seal, to get a sense of what a music analyst does in a day.