by OntiqoThe Air That I Breathe by The Hollies and Creep by Radiohead: how alike are they?
Sonalize compared the two recordings: 8%, unrelated.
| Harmony | 41% |
|---|---|
| Melody | 0% |
| Sound | 79% |
| Rhythm | 60% |
These tracks have no more in common than unrelated songs usually do.
| The Air That I Breathe | Creep | |
|---|---|---|
| Artist | The Hollies | Radiohead |
| Key | C Major | G Major |
| Tempo | 85 BPM | 92 BPM |
| Most alike passage | 0:10–0:52 | 1:20–1:58 |
Track B moved up 5 semitones (G Major to C 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 1.18; 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).
Why this pair
This is a pair from a copyright dispute that was decided or settled. Public background: chord progression + middle-eight melody; Legal action by Rondor; Hammond & Hazlewood added as co-writers. Sonalize's scores are measurements, not a view on any dispute.
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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