I'm not exactly what one would call a Luddite, but this is rubbish. Yes, there are going to be patterns in hit songs, and yes, I believe a computer can, with some measure of accuracy, figure out certain elements and characteristics that are more pleasing to the ear or more likely to sell a lot of records. But something like this seems very evil to me. It's promoting recycling and rehashing of pre-existing patterns in music, which already exists WITHOUT a computer telling us what to recycle and rehash. Why don't we just leave the writing, performance, and production up to computers entirely and take humans out of the picture entirely? (Yes, I know that's also been done already.)

Besides, we all know that it's record company marketing muscle that makes hit records, not catchy melodies.