Friday, 1 May 2026

May 1: A world of music in May

During May, I shall be focussing a little on different countries (with some small diversions for important dates and other things) and this will continue in other months.

Search 'TOP 50' on Spotify to find the various global charts as they stand.


The posts will introduce a few musical acts from each country which are in my collection or which I used to have in my collection or who I have seen in concert.

There used to be an excellent map which you could access which was created from Gracenote data. This was used to add the song details to files which were ripped from CDs into iTunes and similar places.

Spotify does allow you to search the globe and see what is in the charts in a number of different countries. 

There is usually quite a bit of overlap in the charts between countries and a useful cultural globalisation idea that I used to have in a lesson was to look at the top 10 and see which musical acts were present in more than one country.

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