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Stuart Adams

Hit Record Meter is the free plugin that can assess the commercial appeal of your track. But does it actually work?

Airwindows .

PLUGIN WEEK 2025: What is the secret to making a hit record? Is it the melody and harmony of the music? The rhythm and tempo? The instrumentation? Whether the artist wears the right clothes? Social media presence?… Haircuts?…

Certainly all of these factors have a part to play but, according to Chris Johnson of Airwindows, these elements (apart from the last three) feed into something measurable that reveals the secret to producing hit records. And if something can be measured, then it stands to reason that it can be visualised, and this is exactly what their Hit Record Meter does.

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