The second of a two-part Chart Beat Podcast sparked by Tayla Parx’s gathering for music creatives.
“We’re, as Quincy [Jones] would say, ‘chasing chills,'” says producer Tommy Brown. “If you can’t memorize it, walk out the room and come back and sing it again … usually it’s not a hit.
“I’m always trying to find the thing that has the hair standing up on my arms.”
On the latest Billboard Chart Beat Podcast, co-hosts Gary Trust and Trevor Anderson, from the Billboard charts department, welcome Brown and fellow creators, and Billboard chart regulars, Tayla Parx, Leon Thomas, Sarah Hudson and Jesse Saint John.
Also joining are longtime Billboard Chart Beat Podcast guests Dave Penn and Yael Penn from Hit Songs Deconstructed, which analyzes the compositional characteristics of top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits, among other services.
The two-part episode was recorded during Parx’s Burnout, a camp for songwriters, producers and other music talents that took place Oct. 9-13 in Brooklyn and New…
