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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)

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Oh la la! Oh la la! Seriously... I found this very interesting, but for some country (i'm from Italy) maybe the charts are not so accurate (maybe yes, I'm not an expert ;-( ). Despite everything, very nice idea

Thanks! Also from Italy :) For Italian hits I took data from this repo: https://www.hitparadeitalia.it//hp_yends/ But yes, there might be mistakes across the charts. Sources used are documented here: https://github.com/matteocantiello/88mph

Re: Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)

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It'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 wa…

You are 100% right. I started with the 5 year interval for simplicity, and then I noticed what you pointed out for the exact same reason (I grew up with Grunge so this was very obvious to me as well). I started adding more granularity, so e.g. USA now has the full 2010–2025 charts set. My hope is to populate the whole map with higher temporal density moving forward (the https://88mph.fm/suggest feature is there for that reason too). Will probably have to think of a slightly different UI for the time selector, which is a fun challenge

Re: Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)

#24

It'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 thin…

Thanks! Data sources are shown here: https://github.com/matteocantiello/88mph I agree it would be cool to not just expose the top singles of the year, but potentially choose the top songs in a different genre, so that pop isn't dominating. So maybe having the option to choose musical genre first (e.g. Metal, and the whole website's look changes to a dark-gothic UI :) and then navigate the charts of top metal hits for each country. Which reminds me I need to add Finland

Re: Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)

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I 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

lol

Re: Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)

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It'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 thin…

Thanks! Data sources are shown here: https://github.com/matteocantiello/88mph I agree it would be cool to not just expose the top singles of the year, but potentially choose the top songs in a different genre, so that pop isn't dominating. So maybe having the option to choose musical genre first (e.g. Metal, and the whole website's look changes to a dark-gothic UI :) and then navigate the charts of top metal hits for…

Thanks! I looked at a random 2005 chart.

Question, is this data generated by spotify itself, or are you using some other chart-tracking tool?

Re: Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)

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post #9

Very nice project! That browser tab is staying open for days. I found a small mistake, the Argentina 2000 list [1] shows "Babasónicos - Ella usó mi cabeza como un revolver", but the actual song by Babasónicos (the one that plays) is titled "Cómo eran las cosas", and "Ella usó mi cabeza como un revolver" is a song by Soda Stereo. 1: https://88mph.fm/ar/2000

Thanks for catching this! Fixing now

Re: Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Data sources are shown here: https://github.com/matteocantiello/88mph I agree it would be cool to not just expose the top singles of the year, but potentially choose the top songs in a different genre, so that pop isn't dominating. So maybe having the option to choose musical genre first (e.g. Metal, and the whole website's look changes to a dark-gothic UI :) and then navigate the charts of top metal hits for…

Thanks! I looked at a random 2005 chart. Question, is this data generated by spotify itself, or are you using some other chart-tracking tool?

Nope. I am scraping a number of different sources, mostly un-related to spotify. See https://github.com/matteocantiello/88mph?tab=readme-ov-file#...
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