Features · 10 AI models · One API call

Everything your song needs —
in under 60 seconds.

Upload any track. Our AI pipeline returns a Virality Score with a transparent breakdown, the exact seconds people will clip, your full Song DNA — plus 7 ready-to-post reels, captions, hashtags and a 2-week posting plan. Then paste your own TikTok or Reel to reverse-engineer what's working.

10+
AI Models
7
Reels / Analysis
2wk
Posting Plan
14d
Reel Tracking
01 · The core

Virality Score

A single number 0–100 that rates your track's viral potential across TikTok, Reels, Shorts and Spotify — built from the song's own DNA: hooks, energy, structure and lyrics.

  • Transparent breakdown — see exactly what drives the number
  • Genre-relative — phonk vs. phonk, jazz vs. jazz
  • Shows WHY the score is what it is, not just the number
92
/ 100
02 · The hook finder

Best Moments Detection

The exact 3–15 second segments of your song most likely to stop the scroll. Get timestamps, confidence scores, and drop them straight into TikTok or Reels edits.

0:001:002:003:00
0:27 — 0:35
Hook drop · 96% confidence
1:22 — 1:36
Chorus · 91% confidence
2:18 — 2:27
Bridge · 87% confidence
03 · Full breakdown

Song DNA

Every measurable dimension of your track, extracted and benchmarked. The kind of data sheet labels use internally — now available to every artist.

Tempo
128 BPM
Pop sweet spot
Key
F# minor
Dark · melancholic
Energy
0.82
High
Mood
Euphoric
Major lift
Loudness
-7.3 LUFS
Streaming-ready
Danceability
0.74
Club-friendly
04 · The moat

Reel Reverse-Engineering

Paste the link to your own TikTok, Reel or Short. Songbrain analyzes the visuals, the engagement curve and the comments — then cross-references everything with your song's hook map and tells you exactly what to change.

Your Reel
tiktok.com/@you/video/7421…
Views
12.4k
Likes/View
3.1%
Comments
87
Visual DNA
Low-cut · Warm
Reverse Recommendations
  • 1:46Your strongest hook lands at 1:46 (recurring chorus, score 0.87) — not 0:42. Recut the clip.
  • CAPCaption misses the actual hook line. Use "don't be afraid of the dark"— it's your repeating lyric.
  • VISVisual energy 0.4 vs. song energy 0.9 — mismatch. Faster cuts on the drop.
  • #Add #deathcore · #motivational— hashtags pulled from your song's genre and mood.
  • AI visual analysis — colors, energy, cut tempo, setting
  • Engagement snapshots every 8h for 14 days — track the real outcome
  • Cross-referenced with your song analysis — recos that match your track
05 · The content engine

7 Ready-to-Post Reels + Posting Plan

Every analysis renders 7 beat-synced 9:16 reels cut to your best moment — word-accurate karaoke-style lyric sync when the song has vocals, your cover art integrated, genre-matched color palettes. They render while the analysis runs: the first 3 are ready the second your results open.

Day 1 · TeaserTikTok
Tease the hook — build curiosity before the drop
Day 4 · Lyric quoteInstagram Reels
Your strongest line, word-synced on screen
Day 7 · THE RELEASE POSTAll platforms
The best moment, full energy, link in bio
Day 11 · On-repeatYouTube Shorts
The loop-bait cut for people already hooked
  • 2-week plan: teaser → lyric quote → hook tease → THE RELEASE POST → sound-flex → energy → on-repeat
  • Every post with day, platform, time and caption — plus hashtags per platform
  • Checkbox progress + paste-your-post-link tracking to close the loop
And also

Three more layers of musical intelligence.

🎤06

Lyrics Transcription & Scoring

AI transcription plus scoring on rhyme density, emotional impact, structural clarity and originality. See where your writing shines and where it falls flat.

🎹07

Instrument Detection

Every instrument in the mix, identified — including world instruments like shamisen and guzheng. Production decisions, not guesswork.

🎶08

Genre & Subgenre Matching

Multi-model classification across fine-grained subgenres — so your reels, captions and hashtags match the scene your track actually belongs to.

The Pipeline

10 models. One pipeline. 60 seconds.

Each stage runs a specialized model. Results combine into the final report.

01
Upload
02
Extract
03
Tempo/Key
04
Energy
05
Lyrics
06
Moments
07
Genre
08
Instruments
09
Production
10
Virality
How Songbrain compares

Not another analytics dashboard.
Not pay-to-play. Something different.

Analytics tools only see what already happened. Playlist pitching is pay-per-submission. Songbrain is built on the opposite premise: score the song first, then hand you the content to promote it — 7 reels and a posting plan from a single upload.

Songbrain
Chartmetric
SubmitHub
Paid Promos
Works for unreleased tracks
Yes
Needs history
Partial
No — after release only
Virality prediction
0–100 score + why
Post-hoc analytics
None
None
Best-moment timestamps
Sec-precise + scores
No
No
No
Reel reverse-engineering
Paste link → recos
No
No
No
Ready-to-post reels
7 per analysis
No
No
No
2-week posting plan
Day, platform, caption
No
No
No
Risk to Spotify account
Zero — organic
Zero
Zero
High — ToS violation
Pricing
Free to start
$140+/mo
Per-pitch
$50–$2,000+
Who Songbrain is for

Built for the people actually making the music.

Whether you're releasing your first EP or running A&R for a roster — the data speaks the same language. The interface adapts to how you use it.

Indie Artist

No label. No budget. No gatekeepers.

You write songs, record in your bedroom, and release on DistroKid. Songbrain tells you — before release — whether your track has viral DNA, then hands you 7 ready-to-post reels and a 2-week posting plan so the promo is done before you finish your coffee.

  • Upload demos before committing to a mix
  • Test multiple versions against your genre's viral benchmarks
  • Walk away with 7 reels + captions + a posting plan per analysis
Bedroom Producer

Know exactly why one beat hits — and another flops.

You make 808s slap or shoegaze walls shimmer and post on Soundcloud. Songbrain breaks down tempo, mix translation, hook placement and production density straight from your track's DNA. Get the score + the reasons + what to fix.

  • Beat-level feature breakdown per genre
  • Mix-translation check (phone speaker vs. monitor)
  • Genre-specific viral benchmarks (not generic pop metrics)
Manager · Small Label

Stop trusting vibes. Start trusting data.

You sign acts, pick singles, prioritize roster. Run every demo through Songbrain and you get objective, audio-driven inputs — Virality Score, hook placement, genre match, production readiness. A&R that scales.

  • Batch analyze entire demo inboxes
  • Rank roster releases by pre-launch viral potential
  • REST API access for custom pipelines (on request)
Comparison

How Songbrain compares to existing tools

The honest breakdown vs the alternatives indie artists and developers usually try first.

Feature
Songbrain
Spotify Audio API
ACRCloud
Essentia
Virality Score (0–100)
Best Moments timestamps
Reel Reverse-Engineering
Song DNA (tempo, key, energy)
Limited
Lyrics + emotional scoring
Genre + 37 subgenres
Limited
Basic
Basic
Instrument detection
Partial
Production quality benchmark
Partial
7 ready-to-post reels per analysis
N/A
N/A
N/A
Hosted API
Deprecated 2024
Self-host
Single API call (one response)
Multiple calls
N/A
Manual chain

Spotify Audio Features API was deprecated in November 2024. ACRCloud is built for audio fingerprinting and recognition, not analysis. Essentia is an open-source library you need to self-host and chain manually — no virality prediction, no hosted API. Pay-to-pitch platforms like SubmitHub or Groover sell submissions; Songbrain turns the song itself into ready-to-post content instead.

Technical FAQ

Questions from people who actually read the docs

The technical questions evaluators send before signing up — answered concretely.

How accurate is the Virality Score?+

The score is built from your song's own DNA — hook strength and placement, energy profile, structure, and lyric impact. Rather than predicting absolute virality — which no model can — it tells you how strong the track's shareable ingredients are, and the transparent breakdown shows exactly which components drive the number. Scores above 75 indicate strong viral ingredients; scores above 90 are exceptional. The detailed methodology is in our Virality Score explainer guide.

What does the Best Moments confidence score mean?+

Each Best Moment window comes with a confidence between 0 and 1. The number combines four signals: (1) self-similarity matrix density — how often the section's melodic/rhythmic pattern repeats internally, (2) section-novelty edge strength — how distinct it is from surrounding context, (3) spectral centroid shift magnitude — how salient the audio brightness change is at that point, (4) energy contour position — where the moment sits on the rising edge of the track's energy curve. 0.85+ is a high-conviction hook; 0.65–0.85 is a candidate worth testing; under 0.65 is weak.

How does Reel Reverse-Engineering work technically?+

You paste an Instagram Reel or TikTok URL. Songbrain fetches the public engagement signals (per-second pause/replay clusters, comment timestamps, like-velocity spikes) and cross-references them with the audio at each timestamp. The output is a per-second breakdown: which moment landed, where attention dropped, what the audio-visual sync did at the peak. The analysis is free for videos under 7 days old (data is freshest then) and 30 credits for older ones.

What audio formats and file sizes are supported?+

MP3, WAV and FLAC up to 50MB per file. Most full-length songs sit well under 50MB at typical bitrates (320 kbps MP3 ≈ 8MB per 3 minutes; 44.1 kHz WAV ≈ 30MB per 3 minutes). For premium users, album uploads (up to 12 tracks per submission) are supported.

What languages does lyrics transcription support?+

Whisper large-v3 runs the transcription, which supports 90+ languages with strong accuracy on the major ones (English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic). For very short snippets or heavily processed vocals, accuracy drops; the emotional scoring layer compensates by using the audio features when lyric confidence is low. Language is auto-detected — you don't need to specify it.

Can I use the API for batch processing?+

Yes. The REST API accepts one upload per call, but the architecture is built for parallel async processing — typical Premium quotas let you fire many concurrent uploads. Each job returns a `job_id` immediately; you can either poll `GET /api/v1/jobs/<id>` or supply a webhook URL for completion callbacks. Distributors and AI music platforms typically run hundreds of analyses per day this way. See the API docs for rate-limit specifics per plan.

Does the analysis pipeline run on my hardware or yours?+

Ours. The 10-model pipeline runs on dedicated cloud workers behind a queue-based job system. You upload the audio file, our infrastructure does the heavy compute (transcription, audio-feature extraction, genre classification, fusion), and you get the full report back. You never need to install anything or manage models — and your reels render on our side while the analysis runs.

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