Music researchers at British music label Ostereo did a thorough analysis and crunched the data to determine the perfect formula for a holiday hit song.…
Music researchers at British music label Ostereo did a thorough analysis and crunched the data to determine the perfect formula for a holiday hit song. The experts looked at every chart-topping Christmas song of the last 50 years to see what they all had in common and determined some integral qualities among them.
Other key qualities that were not prevalent enough to become part of the formula was that the majority of the songs were ballads, nearly half of the songs were cover versions, and nearly all of them were about something besides Christmas.
“I think we’re a long way from an algorithmically-generated Christmas number one,” said Howard Murphy, founder of Ostereo.
