The Hypebot Hit Song Contest: Help Write The Music

Hypebot has written the first data-driven hit song and wants you to sing their first single.  Inspired by the work of Jay Frank of FutureHitDNA, I decided to craft my own hit song and hold a contest that challenges you to write the music.

What’s unique about the lyric is that the words are those used most often in the Top 50 selling downloads of this year.  That’s right, Jay made this fascinating, yet revealing inforgraphic and I followed it religiously to write this “catchy” lyric. 

Words like “love,” “baby,” and “like” were all I had to work with.  The result is humoring at times, scary in others.  The Hypebot Hit Song Contest invites you to take part in the fun and produce the most stereotypical pop song you can imagine.  Think KE$HA meets Justin Bieber.  Baby, baby, your love is my drug.

Winners will get to make their claim to fame and will receive a number of cool prizes, yet to be confirmed, including a one-time, hit-song analysis performed by Mr. Jay Frank himself.  In the coming weeks, we’ll roll out the details and give you the opportunity to pay homage to the kind of music that you just love to hate.

To illustrate how I used the data to write this lyric, I’ve color
coordinated the words in the chorus. I used the largest words on
the chart for the chorus and the smaller ones for the verses. The words
in black are in the raw data, but are not in the image. And just so you, the respectable artist, know what kind of terrible awesomeness your getting yourself involved in, here’s a the full song lyric:

To partake, please visit this page and submit your cover of my song.