Comments on: What Makes a Song Commercially Successful? Ask Your Brain

By: Wayne G. Caddigan

Wayne G. Caddigan — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:38:46 +0000

I THINK THE HUMAN BRAIN REACTS TO STIMLUS IN OUR OWN BRAINS FOR ANY SURVEY
NOT JUST FOR MUSICM ALONE. THIS TYPE OF DATA GATHERING NEEDS TO BE EXPANDED TO AN HIGHER NUMBER OF QUESTIONEERS BEFORE YOUR COMMENTS CAN
BE FOUND SATISFATORLY.

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:18:55 +0000

It would be interesting to see if we can find out certain components of music that are more likely to stimulate the nucleus accumbens than others. i’d love to see a genetic algorithm that bases it’s adjustments on fMRI images alone. hell, i’d even volunteer to sit in an MRI and listen to “music” for a few hours.

-The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny…” ~Isaac Asimov

By: Glidingpig

Glidingpig — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:24:08 +0000

Sadly, this will indicate sales, those teeny boopers are the ones paying for the crappy music that gets put out there.

It looks like Gregg, from the write up, that the original research had a different goal, and this was just a off chance hit.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:39:03 +0000

27 people and only teenagers? Sorry, this isn’t science. This isn’t even worthy of a newspaper poll.