Music Operations

Music Ops includes the Curation and Music Analyst teams, who work to collect, organize, and analyze a catalog that is curated specifically for personalized radio. Our Curation team is comprised of artist and label relations, music & comedy programming, and library development, which all have unique missions but work in harmony to optimize the opportunities for Pandora listeners to discover, enjoy, and connect with music and comedy.

Our Music Analyst team is comprised of musicians and comedians who feed the Music Genome Project and Comedy Genome Project, two critical pieces of intellectual property that help power Pandora’s playlist and personalization algorithms. Our analysts break down each music or comedy track according to hundreds of “genes” that describe tempo, rhythm, melody, harmony, instrumentation, narrative content, and more.


Let's have a standing ovation for our friends in curation.

Listen to the Curation Team jingle for an auditory immersion.