One Song's Best Matches

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, November, 2007

Software from a Drexel University lab computes the statistical "distance" between songs. A perfect match - that is, comparing a song to itself - would be zero.

Here are the values for the five best matches to U2's "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of," from a database of 7,135 pop songs:

7.9157:  "Face and Ghost," by Live 8.5183:  "Confidential," by Tina Turner 8.5967:  "I Do But I Don't," by Tim McGraw 8.6928:  "Never You Mind," by Semisonic 8.8624:  "Brother My Brother," by Blessid Union of Souls

 

 

SOURCE: Youngmoo Kim  

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