Who Will Love This Song? Nashville Can Now Ask Before the Release Date

Rocketship, an artificial-intelligence tool built to tell a writer or a label which listeners a track is likely to reach before it ever goes out, is now open to anyone who wants to use it. It is described as the first of its kind to work the problem from that end, reading the audience in advance rather than measuring it after the fact. For the publishing offices along Music Row and the industry homes in Green Hills, where a song's commercial life is often decided long before the public hears it, that is a question worth asking early.

With reporting from MusicRow.