Puscifer have released a new song, “The Algorithm,” and its accompanying music video. The track was written exclusively for the soundtrack to the American Psycho comic-book series.

By using a machine-learning algorithm, the team could mine official UK top 40 singles charts over the past 50 years to see how important these 23 features are to producing a hit song.

A future chart-topping song may soon come from an algorithm. Sony Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) in Paris is developing a system of algorithms which can create songs that cater to the user's ...