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24 alternatives to What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)
I built this because I wanted to know what people in Japan were listening to the year I was born. That question spiraled: how does a hit in Rome compare to what was charting in Lagos the same year? How did sonic flavors propagate as streaming made musical influence travel faster than ever? 88mph is a playable map of music history: 230 charts across 20 countries, spanning 8 decades (1940–2025). Every song is playable via YouTube or Spotify. It's open source and I'd love help expanding it — there's a link to contribute charts for new countries and years. The goal is to crowdsource a complete…
88mph is an interactive music history database covering 230 charts from 20 countries between 1940 and 2025. Users can explore what songs were popular in different regions during specific years, with every track… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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What songs are popular in each country?
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Click a country or city to hear its music through Spotify
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I'm a big fan of the BBC podcast In Our Time -- and (like most people) I've been playing with the OpenAI APIs. In Our Time has almost 1,000 episodes on everything from Cleopatra to the evolution of teeth to plasma physics, all still available, so it's my starting point to learn about most topics. But it's not well organised. So here are the episodes sorted by library code. It's fun to explore. Web scraping is usually pretty tedious, but I found that I could send the minimised HTML to GPT-3 and get (almost) perfect JSON back: the prompt includes the Typescript definition. At the same time I…
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Hi HN, I have made a site called Https://www.1000songs.co.uk It is a collection of songs I like 1930 - 2030, 10 songs a year (I am 927 in!) These limits meant I could add some really fun features. The radio time machine lets you scroll through the years 1930 - 2030. It is built on lists and then looks up the preview from iTunes. I used the limitation of a 30 second preview as a feature to try and make it feel like turning an old radio. It's also got some game elements where you can find the songs from the year you were born or name the tune. Because my taste is pretty niche (and…
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We discuss Spotify's footprint & music streaming in Asia
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The musical time machine, now with more granular search
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I've been tracking Metal Archives data since 2010 — originally Excel screenshots, now a proper interactive site. The dataset (provided by MA admins, not scraped) covers genre trends from 1964 to present, with country-level breakdowns showing how genres evolved regionally. Some interesting bits: Finland is indeed the country with most releases per capita in most genres; clear difference between Asia and Western countries in terms of genre distribution. And those end-of-graph drops that sparked "metal is dying" debates? This is rather due to a lack of data completeness and they tend to fill in…
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