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Better As a Memory by Kenny Chesney and Never Fade by Jack Johnson: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 58%, strong similarity.

58%Strong similarity
Harmony82%
Melody18%
Sound95%
Rhythm41%

Long stretches line up in harmony, melody or groove, more than in almost any unrelated pair we tested. Covers and borrowings score here, but so can a coincidence: check which parts line up and listen to them.

Better As a MemoryNever Fade
ArtistKenny ChesneyJack Johnson
KeyD MajorB Major
Tempo144 BPM74 BPM
Most alike passage3:03–3:093:56–4:02

Track B moved up 3 semitones (B Major to D Major)

On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is alike in style, as songs of the same genre often are, though not the closeness of another version (distance 1.64; other versions of a song in these comparisons have a median of 0.31, different songs that sound alike 1.27, random pairs 2.95).

How this was measured

Compared from the full recordings; Sonalize's fingerprint lookup confirmed both songs. The same engine runs in the Sonalize app on your own device. A score measures how alike two recordings are; it isn't a finding about copying, legal advice, or a rights clearance.

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