kworb alternative
How we compare with kworb.net.
kworb.net has published streaming chart numbers since about 2012, and it's where we got the idea for this site. It keeps each platform on its own pages. We take 756 charts from 12 platforms and add them up into one chart for the world and for each of 168 countries.
Here's how the two line up, including where kworb is ahead.
kworb.net and musicrank, row by row
| What | kworb.net | musicrank |
|---|---|---|
| One chart from every platform | No, each platform has its own pages | Yes, worldwide and in 168 countries, adding up every platform that charts there |
| Platforms | Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Deezer, Shazam, and YouTube | 12, including Melon, Billboard, KKBOX, Circle Chart, and JioSaavn |
| Spotify countries | About 70, and worldwide | 73, and worldwide |
| Spotify stream counts | Daily and weekly charts | Daily and weekly charts |
| Past charts, day by day | No archive of past Spotify charts by day | Any day we have, on every chart; Spotify's worldwide one back to Jan 1, 2017 |
| Lifetime Spotify streams | Every song of the artists it covers | The biggest hits of the artists charting now, with the gain a day and when the next milestone should fall |
| Monthly listeners | About 2,500 artists | The lead artists on Spotify's charts now |
| YouTube | Charts, video stats and milestones | Charts, lifetime views and likes, and milestones |
| Search | No search box | Songs, artists and albums, from the top of every page |
| On a phone | Fixed-width tables | Laid out for small screens |
| Page weight | Static HTML tables, very fast | Heavier, with pictures and graphs |
| Song and artist addresses | Spotify ids | The name, then our own id |
What we say about kworb.net is what we saw there in September 2026.
What you'll find here and not on kworb
One chart for a whole country
The chart for Australia adds up Spotify, YouTube, Deezer, Shazam, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. The worldwide one adds up Spotify, YouTube, Deezer, and Shazam.
Any past day's chart
Every chart can be read as of a day we have. Here's Spotify's worldwide chart on Jan 1, 2017.
A song on every platform at once
A song's page lists every chart it's on, country by platform. Take today's worldwide number one, BbY WOW.
An artist's peaks by country
An artist's page shows each song's best position in every country as a heatmap. Here's KAROL G's.
Charts kworb doesn't cover
Melon counts toward the chart for South Korea, next to Spotify, YouTube, Deezer, Shazam, and Apple Music.
The search at the top of this page finds songs, artists and albums, and every page here fits a phone screen.
Where kworb is ahead
- Its lifetime streams cover far more songs, often an artist's whole catalogue. Ours cover the biggest hits of the artists charting now.
- Its monthly listeners list covers about 2,500 artists, every big name among them. Ours covers the lead artists on Spotify's charts now.
- On some charts its history goes back further than ours.
- Its pages are plain tables and load almost at once. Ours carry pictures and graphs, so they're heavier.
Questions about musicrank
Is musicrank free?
Yes. There's no account to make and nothing to pay.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the platforms themselves. We keep each chart as it was published: the positions, the titles as the platform spelled them, and its streams or views where it shows them. Lifetime streams and monthly listeners are Spotify's own figures, and lifetime views and likes are YouTube's. We don't adjust any of them.
How is the joined chart counted?
Each platform's top 100 in a country gives out points: 100 divided by the square root of the position, rounded. We add up a song's points from every platform that charts it, and the joined chart is the songs in order of their total.
A song only some of the platforms chart keeps part of its points: the square root of its share of them. On one platform in four it keeps half, on three in four 87%. One platform's chart is only that platform's listeners, so a song has to travel to get its full points.
- #1
- 100 points
- #4
- 50 points
- #25
- 20 points
- #100
- 10 points
So a song every platform plays does well: number 20 on all four platforms (88 points) beats number 1 on only one of them (50). A number one still counts for a lot: on one platform in four, it beats number 10 on two of them (44).
Why don't the numbers match kworb's exactly?
A position on a platform's chart is the platform's, so those should match. Other figures depend on when they were read. A lifetime count read in the morning isn't the one read that night, and we work out a day's gain from our own readings, spread over however long lies between them.
A song's peak and days on a chart are counted from the days we have, unless the platform publishes its own count, in which case we show that. The joined chart and artist points are our own sums, so there's nothing on kworb to match them against.
There's more on how we work on our about page.