MusicCharts.world

A weekly exploration of how Spotify charts overlap across countries

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chai publications

Chart week ending October 29 2026 · verified from source · fetched 2026-10-31T01:26:38Z

What the world is listening to, and where it disagrees.

MusicCharts.world is an independent weekly exploration of how Spotify charts overlap across countries. Rankings are sourced through Kworb, and the site is not affiliated with or endorsed by Spotify.

Coverage: all 55 configured national markets are current and validated.

Click any country on the map — or pick from the dropdown — to see its top 50. Choose a track to play it. Use Play All to listen through the full chart in order, or Shuffle to randomise.

Coverage for this issue: 55 of 55 configured markets loaded; 0 unavailable for this period; 0 failed. Unavailable markets have no chart rows and are excluded from the map and rankings.

Map summary: Nigeria has the highest distinctiveness score in this issue; Australia has the lowest. Distinctiveness is a site-generated comparison of current Top 50 overlap, not a Spotify metric.

Source: Kworb, Spotify weekly chart for Worldwide, week ending 2026-10-29

Coverage: all 55 configured national markets are current and validated.

Each country’s top 50 is compared against every other country’s. The matrix below is the overlap (Jaccard similarity) between every pair of charts, with countries reordered by hierarchical clustering — so linguistic and cultural blocs sit as visible squares on the diagonal.

Heatmap summary: Austria and Germany have the highest pairwise chart overlap in this issue (67%). The complete matrix remains available above for exploration.

§ 01 — What everyone is hearing

The tracks holding top-50 positions in the largest number of countries this week, out of the 55 national charts we track. The rest of the chart is cosmopolitan disagreement; these are the points of consensus.

🇺🇸 in 32 countries · avg #9

Housewife

Tate McRae

🇺🇸 in 28 countries · avg #17

Nicole Kidman

ADÉLA

🇦🇷 in 24 countries · avg #10

BbY WOW

KAROL G

🇩🇪 in 24 countries · avg #17

Ain’t In LA

ADÉLA

🇮🇪 in 20 countries · avg #13

Stop The Wedding!

Ashe

🇦🇹 in 18 countries · avg #22

Just Give Me a Reason

P!nk

🇲🇾 in 16 countries · avg #18

Great Expectation

SIENNA SPIRO

🇸🇬 in 16 countries · avg #20

the cure

Olivia Rodrigo

🇺🇸 in 15 countries · avg #25

expectations

Olivia Rodrigo

🇨🇦 in 15 countries · avg #28

Iris

The Goo Goo Dolls

🇨🇭 in 15 countries · avg #30

Self Aware

Temper City

🇸🇬 in 13 countries · avg #32

back to friends

sombr

§ 02 — The week’s biggest gainers

Tracks climbing the charts hardest right now: the cumulative number of positions gained across all countries where they’re moving up. Velocity, not absolute popularity.

↑321 places across 21 countries

Housewife

Tate McRae

↑257 places across 3 countries

FIRESTARTER

K/DA

↑252 places across 3 countries

Looks Can Kill

IVE

↑196 places across 9 countries

Babydoll

Jamie Miller

↑178 places across 3 countries

Sports car

Tate McRae

↑178 places across 1 countries

Veezha Veera (From “OM Chapter 1: Udhiram - The Blood Wood”) [Tamil]

Sai Abhyankkar

↑173 places across 1 countries

Életem Szerelme

mollywood

↑167 places across 1 countries

Nadie Esta Hablando De Amar

Jesp7Tearz

↑164 places across 1 countries

u’Jola Nobani

Musical Jazz

↑157 places across 2 countries

Thriller

Michael Jackson

↑146 places across 2 countries

Mama - Remix

Symba

↑139 places across 1 countries

WAV. 2

Triple X Da Ghost

§ 03 — Songs the rest of the world hasn’t heard

Each track here holds a top-50 position in exactly one country and appears nowhere else in our sample. The mirror image of § 01.

🇨🇿  #01 in Czechia

SuperStar

Calin

🇪🇬  #01 in Egypt

عشان بحبك

Amr Mostafa

🇪🇸  #01 in Spain

DOGGY

La Pantera

🇫🇮  #01 in Finland

Pimeä onni (Vain elämää kausi 17)

Ares

🇬🇷  #01 in Greece

Baba Yaga

Light

🇭🇰  #01 in Hong Kong

goofy

Anson Lo 盧瀚霆

🇭🇺  #01 in Hungary

SUV 2

DESH

🇮🇱  #01 in Israel

קאט לדבר הבא

נדב חנציס

🇮🇹  #01 in Italy

NON SEI PIÙ TU

Geolier

🇯🇵  #01 in Japan

しわあわせ

Vaundy

🇳🇬  #01 in Nigeria

BACK 2 U

Seyi Vibez

🇵🇱  #01 in Poland

Mami

730 Huncho

Coverage and availability

This issue uses the verified weekly chart period ending 29 October 2026. 55 of 55 configured national markets loaded successfully. The worldwide chart is validated separately.

No configured markets were unavailable from the upstream source for this issue.

The fetch completed at 2026-10-31T01:26:38Z. The worldwide chart and 54 national markets are required to validate for the same current period. India is checked every run: if its chart is valid but stale, India is visibly unavailable for this period and excluded from all calculations and rankings. It is restored automatically when current and valid. This named exception does not allow failures in other markets or invalid data in India. No older chart is reused.

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