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| | How many hits? | Pop | Guardian Unlimited Music |
 | | On computer servers in Barcelona, where McCready lives with his family, Platinum Blue stores vast amounts of data gleaned from every song that has ever made it into the Top 40 in Britain or the Billboard Hot 100 in America since the 1960s, along with millions that did less well. |
 | | Each hit is represented by a point of light, so travelling through the music universe on a computer screen feels like playing a video game set in outer space, with every star a song. |
 | | But the argument is also a moral one: not that the software doesn't work but that, whether or not it does, acting as if it does will leach the genius out of music by forcing artists to conform to existing styles. |
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