Echoes
The most-streamed song of every year from 1960 to 2026. Type your year, see its song.
- Build
- Experiment
- Started
- May 2026
- Updated
- Oct 2026
- Built with
- Vanilla HTML, CSS and JSCloudflare WorkersiTunes Search APIWeb push
- Lives at
- echoes.anirudhgoel.xyz
- Years, one song each
- 67
- From
- 1960
- To
- 2026
Type a year, or slide to it, and Echoes reveals the most-streamed song of that year with its artist, album and stream count, set in colours drawn for that year. There is a tour, a decades view and an index of all 67.
The numbers, honestly
Stream counts are approximate, as of May 2026. For years before 2008 they are streams counted after the fact, which the page says. Cover art comes from Apple’s iTunes Search API.
The lesson it kept
On 17 May 2026 a service worker that tried to be clever turned small network blips into errors. Its service worker now does one job, push messages, and never touches a request.
