Hey You by Pink Floyd and Fault Lines by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 12%, unrelated.

12%Unrelated

Harmony	39%
Melody	25%
Sound	84%
Rhythm	46%

These tracks have no more in common than unrelated songs usually do.

	Hey You	Fault Lines
Artist	Pink Floyd	Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Key	E Minor	G# Minor
Tempo	112 BPM	98 BPM
Most alike passage	0:02–0:17	3:14–3:29

Track B moved down 4 semitones (G# Minor to E Minor)

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 1.72; 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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Hey You by Pink Floyd and Fault Lines by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: how alike are they?

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