Hitlab is a musical website where bands and musicians can promote and advertise themselves. Each artist or band has its own page that may include news, photos, videos, upcoming shows, background / biographical information, contact information, and music for free listening and downloads. Hitlab's artists can share music with each others. Over 30,000 artists house such profiles on Hitlab.
Hitlab, considered an online
social network service
A social networking service or SNS (sometimes called a social networking site) is an online platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, act ...
portal for artists and listeners alike, was founded in October 2007, the website is a promotional grounds for minor or up-and-coming artists, but also boasts signed mainstream]bands as well.
Hitlab created the DHS (dynamic hit scoring) which uses artificial intelligence to predict the hit potential of a new song. The DHS originated from Diagnos, a company who develops and markets
knowledge extraction
Knowledge extraction is the creation of knowledge from structured (relational databases, XML) and unstructured (text, documents, images) sources. The resulting knowledge needs to be in a machine-readable and machine-interpretable format and must r ...
solutions.
By comparing this new song to a massive database of chart-topping singles called the Music DataBase. Where every genre is represented: pop,
country
A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity. It may be a sovereign state or make up one part of a larger state. For example, the country of Japan is an independent, sovereign state, while the ...
,
hip hop, rock etc.
The database is updated constantly with new releases. Where a song lives in the universe (i.e. where it is positioned in the database's grid) is determined by patterns in its melody, harmony, chord progression, rhythm, beat, pitch and so on. Songs with similar patterns are close to each other and form groups; songs that are vastly different end up far apart.
Recent hit songs only account for a small number of these groups. To have more chances of being a hit in today's music environment, a new song should fall into one of these groups, i.e. have the same sort of patterns as other recent hits.
Pamela
Pamela may refer to:
*''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'', a novel written by Samuel Richardson in 1740
*Pamela (name), a given name and, rarely, a surname
* Pamela Spence, a Turkish pop-rock singer. Known as her stage name "Pamela"
* MSC ''Pamela'', ...
, a 16-year-old singer from Montreal, Canada, initially rose to fame after performing in front of
Akon
Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam (; born April 16, 1973), known mononymously as Akon, is a Senegalese-American singer, record producer, and entrepreneur. He rose to prominence in 2004 following the release of " Locked Up" (featuring Styles P) ...
at Hitlab's "September 2008 Showcase". She was one of eight music industry hopefuls chosen by Hitlab for the event and her performance caught the eye of Akon,
Hitlab.com Canadian Artist Pamela opens for AKON in front of sold out crowd
newswire.ca. 6 August 2009 who promptly took her under his wing. She worked with Akon's production team in the recording studio and is releasing a duet with him in French. It marks the first time Akon, a native of Senegal
Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤠(Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤠ðž ...
, has sung in French.
References
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External links
Hitlab
Hitlab's Radio Show
Canadian music websites