What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)
Details
- External ID
- 47325296
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)
- Website domain
- 88mph.fm
- Launched
- March 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 114
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9212792127921279
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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 sonic atlas of the world.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive maps and geospatial visualizations
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- historical music charts across countries
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a static content curation web application displaying historical music chart data alongside embedded music players.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: radio.garden (by region exploration), anthrology.site (US-centric, more granular across time), wikidata-extraction tool (random artist discovery)
Concerns raised: Required sign-up barrier to access, Data accuracy issues (wrong release dates, cross-century errors, unrelated genres), Regional chart representation incomplete (English vs French Canada, multilingual markets), Missing dates for some songs, No validation/checker to catch data errors before playlist compilation
Feature requests: Add automated validation comparing song release dates against playlist year, Separate charts for multilingual regions (French Canada, multilingual Belgium/Switzerland), Improve suggest feature with better country search/selection in correction interface
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