MusicCharts.world

A weekly exploration of how Spotify charts overlap across countries

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chai publications

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.

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.

↑571 places across 9 countries

BbY WOW

KAROL G

↑366 places across 11 countries

ZIZI

Ozuna

↑198 places across 19 countries

Animal

KATSEYE

↑190 places across 19 countries

Loser

Tame Impala

↑176 places across 2 countries

RIKI

Neton Vega

↑161 places across 1 countries

Gabi

Carson Coma

↑145 places across 2 countries

Ta Pedindo Toma

MC Leozinho ZS

↑142 places across 1 countries

112

Ida

↑141 places across 1 countries

Good Times

Lukas Graham

↑140 places across 1 countries

Candy Pink Magic Hole Flip Phone

KiiiKiii

↑137 places across 4 countries

My Body Isn’t Ready

sombr

↑117 places across 1 countries

Tera Mera Rishta Continues (Film Ballad) [From “Awarapan 2”]

Mithoon

§ 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 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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