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The sound of the market

A market’s mood, read through what it plays.

What it is

The music-led mood read. The single signal no other intelligence vendor ships as portable intelligence, and the one with peer-reviewed backing as a mood proxy.

How it's built

260,000 chart entries (2019–2026) decomposed into tempo, key and home-grown share, then validated against consumer confidence. We read the domestic layer separately from the full chart, because imports dilute the local mood.

What you get

  • Position-weighted tempo, major-key share and valence, monthly.
  • The domestic layer: how the home-grown repertoire feels, stripped of international hits.
  • Validated, receipted correlations with the macro mood.

From the data

In our published France validation, tempo tracks the savings-intent sub-index at r = −0.52 and major-key share tracks consumer confidence at r = +0.43.

This is one section of a full Cadence read.