TOP10music.today — Project Overview
What we do: TOP10music.today builds daily Top-10 YouTube music charts for each country, plus continent and worldwide leaderboards. We collect public YouTube metadata and apply our own, original point-based aggregation to compare what’s popular locally and globally. The site also shows 10-day movement for the top songs so you can spot momentum at a glance.
How the daily country charts are created
- Collect public data: For each country, we index publicly available YouTube music videos (title, channel/artist, URL, publish date, etc.).
- Filter to music: We apply rules to keep the dataset focused on music (e.g., category checks, known artist channels, and heuristics).
- Rank the Top 10: For the selected date, we determine the country’s Top-10 list.
We do not host any videos or audio files. Playback is done via the official YouTube player (embeds).
Our point system (original & proprietary)
To compare songs across countries on the same day, we convert each country rank into points, then sum those points for continent and world leaderboards.
Per-country points table (example):
- #1 → 10 pts
- #2 → 9 pts
- …
- #10 → 1 pt
Aggregation rules
- World Top-10: For a given date, a song’s world points = the sum of its points from all countries where it appears that day.
- Continent Top-10: Same idea, but summing only across the countries in that continent.
- Each country counts equally (no population weighting).
Tie-breakers
- Most #1 placements that day
- Appears in more countries that day
- Best single-country peak that day
- Earliest chart entry date (older entry wins)
- Stable fallback (e.g., alphabetical by title) if still tied
Important: This points model and aggregation logic were conceived and developed by us for TOP10music.today. It is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or copied from YouTube or any official chart provider.
How we build the YouTube “trends” list
Beyond static ranks, we estimate momentum so you can see what’s actually trending:
- 10-day history: For each song we keep a 10-day rank vector (missing days are allowed).
- Momentum (rank change): Improvements (e.g., #7 → #3) add positive momentum; drops reduce it.
- Recency weighting: More recent days carry more weight (light exponential decay toward day −10).
- New-entry boost: A fresh Top-10 entry gets a small bonus to surface genuinely new trends.
- Stability bonus: Holding a high rank for multiple consecutive days adds a modest bonus.
We combine the above into a Trend Score (0–100). Songs are then ordered by their Trend Score to produce the Trending lists (globally, by continent, or per country). This score is our own derived metric, designed to be intuitive and transparent.
Update cadence & visuals
- Daily refresh for each country
- 10-day chart visualization shows rank paths for the top 3
- Recently played thumbnails appear under the YouTube player for quick replay
Rights, attribution, and takedowns
- No affiliation: TOP10music.today is not affiliated with YouTube or Google.
- Embeds only: All playback uses the official YouTube embed; we do not host media.
- Ownership: All videos, thumbnails, artwork, music, and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.
- Data: We store metadata and our derived statistics (points, trend scores, etc.) to generate the charts.
- Removal requests: If you own rights to content displayed here and want it removed, contact us and we’ll review and act promptly.
Why this approach?
- It’s simple (per-rank points), fair (every country counts once), and explainable (clear tie-breakers and trend formula).
- It highlights both local flavor and global consensus without pretending to be an “official” chart.
- And again: the scoring, aggregation, and trend methodology are our original work built specifically for TOP10music.today.
