The past. On shuffle.
2026-03-1016:181064688mph.fm
What was the world listening to?
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By dewey 2026-03-1311:49 Other fun site in that niche (Since 2013), you can select the country + year and just "tune in": https://app.radiooooo.com/
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 was over.
By matteocantiello 2026-03-1315:04 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
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.
By matteocantiello 2026-03-1315:291 reply Thanks for catching this! Fixing now
By poisonarena 2026-03-147:43 the israeli one has a lot of wrong data as well, "2005 year end top 10" all came out in late 90s-2002
