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

Details

External ID
47325296
Source
HN
Company
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Product
What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)
Website domain
88mph.fm
Launched
March 10, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
114
Upvotes percentile
0.9212792127921279
Tags
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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

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 130 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #16 of 131 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 125 days after the earliest competitor.

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