Suggest a chart doesn't allow for selection of other countries not already present it seems like.
Otherwise, very nice project.
Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)
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Re: Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)
#12I picked India and a random year, 1985 [1]. The number 3 song caught my eye cause it had the thumbnail of a famous movie that came out in 2004, although the correct song played. When I went to the linked Spotify playlist for that year, the included song at number 3 was wrong and linked to the song from the 2004 movie.
Not sure what the data source is, but needs a little bit of cleaning and validation. Not critiquing, this project is awesome, just giving a heads up.
Re: Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)
#13Great ! Great ! And fun ! But.. and you can skip destinations only by 5 years :( Waiting for more countries (like, in Africa).. and more than first 10 ??
I recommend listening to DJ Earworm's mashup of the top song across the world [0] to hear a greater variety of countries, albeit for this or last year. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDZ78RbAdxU 11 minutes In fairness to this post, they probably posted as much as they could get easily and consistently. I feel like the same situation reigns for country history in book shops. When I go to a used book store in Quee…
What is this? Every country in the world is listening to the same generic reggaeton song?
Re: Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)
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Re: Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)
#15It's a fun project, but I wish the years weren't locked to 5 year intervals.
EDIT: Actually many years are missing, it seems. For Norway there's nothing between 2000 and 1985, but I guess that's how the charts are pulled?
I also noticed that when you only have these 5 year jumps, certain genres are completely missing. Take US charts - Grunge is non-existent, as it had not yet hit the charts in 1990, and by 1995 it was over.
Re: Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)
#16I picked India and a random year, 1985 [1]. The number 3 song caught my eye cause it had the thumbnail of a famous movie that came out in 2004, although the correct song played. When I went to the linked Spotify playlist for that year, the included song at number 3 was wrong and linked to the song from the 2004 movie. Not sure what the data source is, but needs a little bit of cleaning and validation. Not critiquing,…
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, there are still some inaccuracies that I am fixing manually. I implemented a suggest feature so that I can get some external help to expand and polish: https://88mph.fm/suggest
Re: Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)
#17This is such a fun project to browse.
A few things need ironing out as others have mentioned, but I'll be following the project. Cheers!
Re: Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)
#18Suggest a chart doesn't allow for selection of other countries not already present it seems like. Otherwise, very nice project.
Thanks! The suggest feature should allow to add lists for new countries (just need to change the type): https://88mph.fm/suggest
Let me know if it doesn't work for you
Re: Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)
#19It's pretty cool! I cross "validated" with the charts of where I'm from and the results seem to be fairly accurate.
One question/request: How did you get the data, and would it be possible to filter by language or genre?
TBH I'm actually trying to chase which songs were popular when I was a kid - for example I distinctly remember Astronomia (Tony Iggy) being massive in the club/party "scene" (and even in malls I think!) - but these charts only give what everyone was listening to - so they're pop songs in the local language.
Re: Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)
#20I would love more granular data, like state or zip code. It would help settle a decade old (and zero stakes) dispute I have with a friend. I'm sure that's your top priority, so if you could get on that, that would be great