I’ve always enjoyed listening to albums. When I was younger, I’d listen to albums of pop music because that’s what I’d hear on the radio. The albums often cont

I’ve always enjoyed listening to albums. When I was younger, I’d listen to albums of pop music because that’s what I’d hear on the radio. The albums often contained at least one track that was “catchier” than what was played on the radio. I always wondered why these never made the rounds. Fast forward 20 years and I’ve seen a handful of those songs come back and make the rounds on pop channels. I’ve always wondered why they didn’t do numbers out the gate. Maybe they were missed at the time or maybe they were ahead of their time and needed tastes to catch up. I could see taking an AI model that predicts a positive response from “the masses” being unbelievably valuable to anybody sitting on a massive catalogue of historical content. Most of that content is only valuable, at this point, in bundled deals. But the prospect of there being a handful of diamonds sitting in there that could be panned for with AI? I imagine that’s billions of dollars waiting to be tapped at a near zero cost (plus, possibly, the cost of remastering). (P.S. for fellow album lovers out there, I built https://audile.blankenship.io https://audile.blankenship.io for personal use, it’s free have at it)