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  • adjective Making hits (popular songs).

Etymologies

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hit +‎ making

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Examples

  • Sinatra “retired” at fifty — just past the “September Of His Years”, his hitmaking on the wane.

    The Curious Case Of Michael Joseph Jackson 2009

  • For students of TV hitmaking, no franchise is more fascinating than the one that began with "Law & Order."

    Anatomy of a Restoration Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

  • The post-dumping tune "Brand New You," written for Cosgrove by hitmaking production team Espionage the evil geniuses behind Train's "Soul Sister", had at least one turn of phrase worthy of a country song: "It's never been better 'cause I found a brand new you."

    Music review: Miranda Cosgrove and Greyson Chance at Strathmore Dave McKenna 2011

  • Sinatra “retired” at fifty — just past the “September Of His Years”, his hitmaking on the wane.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Peters, who has been credited over the years with coining the term "Music Mecca of the South" to describe Atlanta's music business, thinks the city's influence in hitmaking will continue to grow.

    Kristi York Wooten: Georgia Is To Grammy As Butter Is to Paula Deen: An Essential Ingredient Kristi York Wooten 2012

  • Isn't that why she's applied a thin but decided layer of the hitmaking Autotune to her voice here?

    fourfour: 2009

  • The post-dumping tune "Brand New You," written for Cosgrove by hitmaking production team Espionage the evil geniuses behind Train's "Soul Sister", had at least one turn of phrase worthy of a country song: "It's never been better 'cause I found a brand new you."

    In concert: Miranda Cosgrove at The Music Center at Strathmore Dave McKenna 2011

  • Isn't that why she's applied a thin but decided layer of the hitmaking Autotune to her voice here?

    Not quite 2009

  • There's something pleasing about the way it eschews all the standard baggage that comes with middle-of-the-road, Radio 2-playlisted artists: no gentle trip-hop breakbeats or cosseting synth washes, no hitmaking songwriters-for-hire buried in the credits, no post-Amy Winehouse retro soul or supper-club jazz scenery.

    Rumer: seasons of my soul – review Alexis Petridis 2010

  • For weeks, she resisted his entreaties to record "Come on-a My House," based on an Armenian folk song, but when Mr. Miller finally persuaded her, his hitmaking instincts again proved unerring.

    Mitch Miller, record executive and 'Sing Along' host, dies at 99 2010

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