A weekly exploration of how Spotify charts overlap across countries
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Chart week ending August 20 2026 · verified from source · fetched 2026-08-27T03:41:34Z
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.
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 from the upstream source; 0 failed. Failed validation blocks publication.
Map summary: Greece has the highest distinctiveness score in this issue; United Kingdom has the lowest. Distinctiveness is a site-generated comparison of current Top 50 overlap, not a Spotify metric.
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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: Australia and New Zealand have the highest pairwise chart overlap in this issue (75%). 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 26 countries · avg #27
Beauty And A Beat
Justin Bieber
🇦🇹 in 25 countries · avg #12
Dai Dai
Shakira
🇨🇭 in 23 countries · avg #21
Self Aware
Temper City
🇦🇪 in 21 countries · avg #18
Loser
Tame Impala
🇸🇬 in 20 countries · avg #27
Animal
KATSEYE
🇹🇭 in 19 countries · avg #20
SWIM
BTS
🇸🇬 in 19 countries · avg #24
hate that i made you love me
Ariana Grande
🇺🇸 in 17 countries · avg #20
Earrings
Malcolm Todd
🇳🇿 in 16 countries · avg #24
Billie Jean
Michael Jackson
🇦🇹 in 16 countries · avg #26
Babydoll
Dominic Fike
🇨🇭 in 15 countries · avg #24
Movin’ To The Sun
HUGEL
🇧🇪 in 14 countries · avg #26
Lush Life
Zara Larsson
§ 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.
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 Denmark
Shen Mao
Kundo
🇩🇴 #01 in Dominican Republic
MOOD BRAZIL
Lil Naay
🇫🇮 #01 in Finland
Väärä nainen
Ida
🇬🇷 #01 in Greece
ORES
Saske
🇭🇺 #01 in Hungary
PRNSTR
KKevin
🇮🇱 #01 in Israel
אבי הטחול
רואי אדם
🇮🇹 #01 in Italy
CANZONE D’AMORE
Geolier
🇯🇵 #01 in Japan
Brand New
Mrs. GREEN APPLE
🇳🇬 #01 in Nigeria
B4 B4
Davido
🇳🇱 #01 in Netherlands
Zwoele Zomernachten
Rutger van Barneveld
🇵🇭 #01 in Philippines
Kalapastangan
fitterkarma
Coverage and availability
This issue uses the verified weekly chart period ending 20 August 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 2026-08-27T03:41:34Z. A source or parser failure is not silently omitted: it stops publication. An upstream 404 is reported here as unavailable and is not treated as a chart with zero entries.
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