That is wildly, wildly out of line. They're out of their minds if they think 4% of songs actively attempting to be hit songs, get there. Even if we rule out obv

That is wildly, wildly out of line. They're out of their minds if they think 4% of songs actively attempting to be hit songs, get there. Even if we rule out obvious failures (and this class of song produces surprise hits, in part through novelty!) the number of songs trying to do this and failing is WAY higher than 97%. I'm not sure people quite understand how many songs are attempted…