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Launching a station on Pandora is only the beginning. Pandora offers a toolbox of features to customize, curate, and remix your stations. Throughout Stations 101, we are going to look at the ways you can take control of your stations and create a truly unique listening experience. To kick things off, let's talk about the most powerful tool you have as a listener, Thumbs. 

Since we launched our new algorithmic Mood Modes, we've had over a million unique listeners try them out. Yay! We're so glad you like them. Mood Modes are a powerful way to craft your favorite station for the specific vibe you are feeling.

We’ve noticed a growing interest in mood and wellness programming. In response, we’ve added Mood Modes, an innovative feature catering to our changing state of mind. 

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.