The Rotating Hit-making Chord Progression

With its own Wikipedia page

I–V–vi–IV

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You want to write a sure-fire hit record. You’ve got a singer in mind. You’ve got great subject matter for the lyric. You’ve experimented with one or two different styles and structures, that’s all in hand. You’re pretty certain about the instrumentation for the recording. You already decided on which key, and what tempo. You’ve even got a killer beat in mind. But exactly which chord progression to use?

You don’t need the analysis of an expensive stylometric algorithm to figure this out. Normally I would not recommend doing research on Wikipedia but in this case, you need look no further than here.